Advanced Specialist, Project Management

• Support, scope, and advise the sales and customer experience group on available options for the creation and delivery of custom products, ensuring solutions meet customer requirements and are feasible within the timeframe and budget.
• Interpret project handovers to the IHE Custom team, advising on feasibility and secure access options for digital products.
• Manage each assigned project while continuously assessing and prioritizing your project list to maintain high standards, resulting in the delivery of an accurate and professional final product, on time and to budget, given the need to accelerate time to market.
• Report regularly on the production status of assigned projects to your line manager and other key stakeholders.
• Resolve all project-specific issues as they arise, ensuring key stakeholders are aware of any delays or milestones that may affect their projects.
• Take responsibility for the production and management of your own projects, including QA and risk mitigation.
• Monitor work carried out by third parties, stakeholders, and internal teams on assigned projects to ensure tasks are completed within the timeframe.
• Ensure budgets are met and advise your line manager and dependent teams if project costs are likely to exceed budget.
• Ensure best practice and processes are followed and maintained, such as QA testing practices and user-centered design in the creation of digital solutions.
• Proactively suggest improvements to processes and maintain awareness of general process updates as they arise.
• Maintain and update process documents accordingly.
• Stay abreast of and monitor Pearson’s products, platforms, and technology developments, understanding any implications for local markets.
• Ensure updates are collated and fed back to wider Sales teams in the UK/regions as part of ongoing training and support.
• Track, monitor, and provide feedback on work carried out by external vendors and other teams within Pearson to ensure efficient production activities.
• Provide regular feedback on capabilities and issues to your line manager.
• Brief vendors on assigned projects.
• In conjunction with your line manager, decide when and where to outsource to a vendor based on project requirements.
• Work closely with colleagues in the Rights and Permissions team to ensure assigned projects comply with R&P requirements for re-clearance or replacement of assets before product publication.
• Closely monitor budgets to ensure financial hurdles are met.

• Effective and simultaneous project management of a high volume of projects with competing priorities.
• Working closely with external and internal stakeholders to ensure project delivery on time and to budget.
• Becoming knowledgeable and competent in a variety of bespoke Pearson platforms and authoring solutions used to produce online content.
• Seeking innovative approaches to addressing problems and opportunities.
• Working closely with a range of stakeholders in all regions.
• Clearly articulating technical information to less knowledgeable/experienced colleagues to promote understanding and learning.
• Sourcing information through Pearson channels to assist with problem-solving and approach.

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal), with the ability to adapt style to work with colleagues from within the UK and from regions with varying levels of technical knowledge.
• Excellent organizational, time management, prioritization, and planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects to tight deadlines.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently, managing your own time and prioritizing effectively.
• An interest and understanding of publishing, e-learning, accessibility, and how content is produced digitally.
• The ability to research solutions to problems and explore different methods of achieving desired results.
• An interest in online education.

and Experience

• Graduate caliber.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• Formal training in computing/delivery of digital content.
• Formal project management training.
• Minimum of 4 years of job experience.
• Project management experience, particularly managing the production and delivery of digital content.
• Experience managing multiple digital projects to tight timeframes.
• Experience working within educational publishing and/or with educational software, including editorial content experience.
• Experience managing project budgets.
• Experience in managing vendors, including creating briefs and purchase orders.
• Behaves ethically and with integrity, supporting Pearson’s core values, beliefs, and codes of conduct.
• Quick learner; acquires needed knowledge.
• Strives to become a top performer in their field.
• Clearly and consistently sets own challenging goals along with project goals.
• Energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate about educational learning.
• A commitment to producing a quality product.
• Flexible, proactive problem-solver, and adaptable.
• Clear thinking and calm under pressure.
• Professional approach at all times.
• Disciplined, yet flexible enough to adapt to changing priorities.
• Excellent organizational and time management skills.