Sr Program Manager, Higher Ed Disciplines

Cengage Group Columbus, Ohio, US

About the Role

We believe in the power and joy of learning

At Cengage, our employees have a direct impact in helping learners around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education. Cengage is accelerating how we bring new innovations and capabilities to our Higher Education customers, and this role will be central to making that happen. You will work across Higher Education disciplines to connect priorities, identify shared capability needs, and coordinate complex, multi-functional programs from planning through customer rollout. This high-visibility role will create alignment across discipline groups and functional teams, bringing insight to priorities, dependencies, risks, and decisions. You will establish a repeatable approach for planning across disciplines and managing capability rollouts across Higher Education. Define and track objectives and measurable outcomes, connecting program progress to business and customer impact. Identify and manage dependencies, risks, and unresolved questions across disciplines and workstreams, ensuring they are visible and driven to resolution. Coordinate Product, Content, Engineering, Go-to-Market, and other teams through delivery, launch, and adoption of new capabilities. Experience leading complex programs across product strategy, content, technology, and commercial teams. Experience establishing operating models, governance, planning processes, and decision frameworks for complex multi-functional initiatives. Strong relationship-building and partner management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across functions and levels of the organization. Strong facilitation, problem-solving, and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. PMP, PgMP, or similar certification. Experience managing vendors and third-party partners. Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws. Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.Cengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. In this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. This position's bonus target amount, which is not guaranteed and is dependent on individual performance and overall company results among other factors, is provided below. Individual Target$117,100.00 - $187,300.00 USD

Responsibilities

  • Lead complex cross-functional programs for Higher Education disciplines

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • Program management experience in education or tech
  • Experience with multi-functional initiative governance

Required Skills

program management stakeholder management risk management cross-functional coordination go-to-market

Keywords

higher education program management multi-functional

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