Portfolio Manager

Cengage Group

Portfolio Manager at Cengage developing product strategies for the education market. Leading product development and ensuring quality learning experiences for students and instructors.

Posted 4/23/2026full-timeRemote • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $77,100 - $100,200 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead a profitable product line and develop strategic business plans.
Provide product leadership, representing the portfolio and customers across audiences.
Use data to make market-informed business proposals, take mitigated risks, and guide strategic decisions.
Defines long-term goals based on research and trends, and sets metrics-driven milestones, making connections across datasets and courses to devise solutions to complex business challenges.
Balance experience, market knowledge, and insights to make impactful decisions and long-term plans.
Translate priorities into organized end-to-end development plans with budgets, resources, performance goals, and key checkpoints.
Provide project team direction, facilitating effective communication, and ensuring timely delivery of multiple products simultaneously within scope and budget.
Cultivate an environment of creativity and collaboration.
Deliver quality learning experiences to students and instructors.
Establish and maintain relationships with key authors and adoption decision makers to gain customer insights, strengthen adoptions, and identify new talent.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BA or BS Degree
Minimum 5 years in product management, product development or other relevant portfolio management role
Cross-functional team leadership experience
Ability to inspire change through influence; honed social skills
Self-discipline with a high degree of accountability
Strong financial analysis and modeling skills and an understanding of business metrics
Natural curiosity and willingness to learn paired with a desire for continuous improvement
Confirmed written and verbal abilities enabling the preparation and presentation of information and recommendations to a diverse and senior level audience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Cengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals.
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.
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Hard Skills & Tools

financial analysismodelingbusiness metricsproduct managementproduct developmentdata analysisstrategic planningproject managementbudgetingmilestone setting

Soft Skills

cross-functional team leadershipinfluencesocial skillsself-disciplineaccountabilitycuriositycontinuous improvementwritten communicationverbal communicationrelationship building

Certifications

BA DegreeBS Degree