Associate Portfolio Manager

Cengage Group

Associate Portfolio Manager at Cengage developing product strategies for educational technology. Leading cross-functional teams to deliver quality learning experiences based on market insights.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeRemote • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $58,300 - $75,750 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
Develop a deep understanding of competitors and an ability to anticipate competitor activity
Identify and test product ideas within segments, including the administration of focus groups, advisory boards, reviews, and customer meetings as appropriate
Regularly analyze product and portfolio plans to align forecasting and measurement of progress towards goals
Partner closely with Marketing and Sales teams to seed and secure adoptions
Work closely with colleagues in other functional areas (Learning Design, Content Production, Marketing, Sales, Technology, etc.) on discipline-specific initiatives
Create compelling needs-based discipline, course, and product positioning and customer segments as inputs for campaign and sales enablement efforts
Make presentations at internal and external meetings, campus visits, and academic conventions in support of sales efforts and to drive sales.

Requirements

What you’ll need

BA or BS Degree
Minimum 2 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
Proficiency with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Expected travel ~10% of time

Benefits

Comp & perks

Participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program
Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementproduct developmentfinancial analysismodeling skillsbusiness metricsdata analysismarket researchstrategic planningproject managementbudget management

Soft Skills

cross-functional team leadershipinfluenceself-disciplineaccountabilitycommunicationcreativitycollaborationcustomer insightspresentation skillscontinuous improvement

Certifications

BA DegreeBS Degree