Job Title: Project Manager

Career Architecture Role: Project Manager

Career Architecture Tier: IC25 (Advanced Specialist)

Tower – Global Rights and Royalties, Financial Operations

Job Summary:

Lead medium-scale projects from planning through delivery, balancing resources, priorities, and stakeholder needs. Drive process improvements, adapt to changing requirements, and mentor junior team members. Champion collaboration and accountability to ensure projects meet scope, budget, and schedule.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deliver one or more small- to-medium scale programmes, consisting of multiple projects or workstreams



• Manage programme plans, milestones, dependencies, risks, and issues using Smartsheet



• Balance and prioritise multiple concurrent initiatives, meeting deadlines in a pressured and changing environment



• Apply structured problem‑solving to resolve delivery issues, proposing practical options and recommendations



• Coordinate stakeholders across functions and geographies, contributing to a global delivery model



• Provide clear, accurate, and decision‑focused status reporting and insights to senior stakeholders



• Identify delivery risks early and actively manage mitigation actions and escalation paths



• Support programme governance forums with high‑quality materials and analysis



• Adhere to global programme management standards and contribute to continuous improvement

Required Skills and Competencies:

• Proven programme and project management expertise



• Strong problem‑solving, analytical, and critical‑thinking skills



• Ability to manage complexity, ambiguity, and competing priorities



• Demonstrated capability to deliver under pressure and tight timelines



• Confident stakeholder engagement across cultures and time zones



• High attention to detail with strong focus on outcomes and value



• Hands‑on experience using Smartsheet or other project planning tools for planning, tracking, and reporting

Qualifications (Education & Experience):

• Relevant experience in project management or coordination for minimum 5 years.



• Proven ability to manage medium-scale projects and collaborate across teams.



• Practical experience working in global or distributed teams

Who we are:

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

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Job: Finance

Job Family: ENTERPRISE

Organization: Corporate Finance

Schedule: FULL_TIME

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Req ID: 24349