Pearson Inc. Work Values

Daily Duties at Pearson Inc.:

Senior Project Manager/Customer Success Manager  Personalized/1:1 Digital Learning o Responsible for managing Pearson School Services software implementations in multiple schools and districts throughout the country while leading a team of project managers. o Accountable for organizing and directing project teams to define and deliver project requirements and deliverables by defining clear, attainable forecasts, objectives, and milestones. o Engages with cross-functional business unit groups to understand, monitor, and report on Pearson platform functionalities, processes, and project development schedules. o Operates within a detailed scope of work model to assist school and district personnel with setup and implementation including the migration and conversion of data, assessments, reporting, curriculum, educator development, and intervention modules to effectively meet the needs of staff and students. o Responsible for project planning and communication across various lines of business. This includes developing plans, processes, and tools to coordinate resources in an effort to produce positive customer experiences throughout each of the sales, implementation, training, and adoption life cycles. o Undertakes strategy creation for contingency planning and risk mitigation and manages all changes and issues with the stakeholders to control costs. o Incorporates a perspective of transformational change in delivery of educational curriculum and content that improves student achievement. o Facilitates knowledge transfer for customers enabling them to become highly proficient with solutions.  Flagship and Mid-Market Customer Segments o Engages business unit and leadership levels during the initial sale of products and licenses through the customer life cycle to ensuring ongoing and continuous success with products and solutions. o Provides repeated, consistently positive experiences with products and solutions while engaging Pearson resources and ensuring positive learning and instructional outcomes are met for all K-12 schools, educators, learners, families, and communities. o Aligns districts and schools to the customer success blueprint and supports their execution through best practices, identification and coordination of internal and external resources to support specific and measurable outcomes, and regular review and presentation of progress metrics. o Strategically drives customer success initiatives to support and bolster account strategy planning to ensure customers attain technical and educational health and growth. o Articulates and adheres to applicable process, product, functional, and strategic frameworks (fidelity). o Establishes and manages systems to track KPIs (lagging and leading indicators/metrics) and overall program goals to drive cross-organizational alignment at the executive level, partnering regularly with the customer to develop and enhance targets. Project Manager  North Carolina Department of Education PowerSchool Implementation o Successfully transitioned over 1.4 million students to replace the state’s former student information system with PowerSchool SIS using a core staff of over 25 people. o Provided a fully functional and robust system for administrators and teachers, North Carolina now better and more efficiently manages student data by providing online access to reporting and monitoring tools aiding in the management of state funding.  Kentucky Department of Education SchoolNet Implementation o Successfully engaged the Kentucky DOE in a state-wide instructional improvement initiative (CIITS) spearheaded by the implementation of the Pearson IMS software product. o Connected standards, electronically stored instructional resources, curriculum, formative assessments, professional learning and evaluation of teachers and principals in one place thereby improving instructional outcomes, teacher effectiveness and leadership.  Prince William County Chancery SMS Implementation o Successfully implemented Pearson SMS, PowerTeacher Gradebook, and ParentConnect products in all schools with a total K-12 enrollment of over 70,000 students. o Insured accuracy of financial forecasts and invoices. o Enforced deliverable completion dates to ensure project quality and control; assembled status reports. o Tracked, monitored, and controlled day to day project meetings, issues and assignments.

What they like about Pearson Inc.:

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Assessments, Project Management, Project Manager, Senior Project Manager, Management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Customer Success Manager, Oracle, LMS, PMP, Project Management Professional, Wilmington, North Carolina

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