Project Manager - Science

Project Manager - Science

Job ID: 2013-19965
# of Positions: 1
Posted Date: 9/4/2013
Job Location: US-CA-San Francisco
Position Type: Regular Full Time
Category: Project Management

Overview

Pearson has one defining goal: to help people progress in their lives through learning. We champion innovation and we invest in models for education that deliver on our promise for effective, accessible, and personal learning from early literacy, college and career readiness to professional education, through data informed instruction and inventive applications for mobile and digital learning.

Pearson, the world's leading learning company, has global-reach and market leading businesses in education, business, and consumer publishing and is listed on the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO).

Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer, and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, veterans, and people with disabilities are encouraged to apply.

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Responsibilities

The Project Manager is the key owner and liaison through all functional areas of project management from content planning through customer acceptance and archive. They execute on the delivery of all assigned program components over the entire course of the program (initiate, plan, build, execute, control, release).The Project Manager is accountable to deliver high quality commercially successful print and digital project families, libraries and/or collections on time and under budget.

Responsibilities include developing and managing program component's schedule, budget, quality of program components, course builds and deliverables, and communicating status including any dependencies to the Program Manager and other program and project constituents.

The Project Manager maintains close communications with the Program Manager regarding the current status of the program components and resolves independently or in collaboration with the Program Manager any and all program component-specific issues or needs.

The PM has full accountability for the final quality of the project in terms of Q&A, budget, schedule, delivery and quality specifications and release. Effectively communicates the project status to all team members, tracks the project milestones, identifies problem areas before they impact the project and coordinates corrective actions.

Daily operational focus is to manage a select number of print and digital products and/or projects across U.S. Higher Education -including supplements, digital products, texts, ancillaries and/or other program components. Supports program planning efforts, follows workflow procedures, creates schedules, handles status tracking and reporting for product or data lifecycle. Maintains key product information in production systems (ie PCS), selects vendors, issues and manages PO's. Communicate and liaise with appropriate internal departments inclusive of Editorial, Marketing, Rights & Permissions, PLS, Digital as well as outside vendors, freelancers, and/or other external resources. With guidance from management, builds and maintains budgets for projects

Given the need to accelerate time to market, the PM must manage each assigned project while continuously assessing and prioritizing their list in order to maintain high standards of correct and quality work that result in the delivery of an accurate, professional final product.

Functions as a primary stakeholder for assigned programs internal and external to the organization Successfully utilize and apply their knowledge of publishing and/or production process and procedures in strategic and proactive manner
- Assignments range low to high complexity in nature
- Resolves questions and problems and independently analyzes more complex issues.
- Minimal to no direct supervision: may assist in training or mentoring other PMs.
- Develops analytics and KPI dashboards to aid decision making and savings. In conjunction with the Directors of Digital and Prepress Sourcing, establishes annual savings targets.
- Reports to the Director of Project Management and/or Team Lead

Qualifications

This position requires a Bachelor's degree

Minimum of 2-4 years job experience preferably with aspects of project management

Strong computer skills with a proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and familiarity with PhotoShop, Illustrator, Acrobat and Editorial/Indexing programs; skills in Acrobat Pro and understanding of XML markup language in an automated workflow are a plus

Excellent organizational skills

Ability to create, update and manage budgets and project schedules

Ability to set agendas and lead successful meetings

Experience in negotiating; executing contracts, creating work for hire agreements and purchase orders

Fundamental understanding of permissions, text and image