Academic program manager

Academic Program Manager (APM)

APM should provide both long-term planning and day-to-day oversight of all aspects of Partners in Learning programs, internally and externally. Internal responsibilities include planning, integration into subsidiary plans, budgeting, reporting, marketing and internal alignment with overall education plans. External responsibilities include customer engagement, advisory board support, marketing, external evangelism, community outreach and issue advocacy. APM should also be one of the key drivers of sales of AE and other educational related licenses.

Requirements:

• Experience in academic environment (knowledge of the educational system)
• Ability to understand education and Public Sector market dynamics
• Ability to implement the right mix of programs to respond to customer needs and trends
• Ability to plan and implement integrated marketing campaigns that reflect the "right" marketing mix, the "right" message integration across products and services
• 5-8 year experience overall, including sales and marketing, exhibiting both innovation and driving new programs
• Proven results in "field execution" of new programs, solutions and business models
• Ability to build good business relationships with field teams and external partners
• Ability to understand cultural differences, challenges of emerging market and current and future needs of the countries
• Ability to see and maintain the big strategic picture - identifying and evaluating opportunities where cross-group collaboration will enhance the business
• Ability to build and manage cross-group and external relationships; they must be self-motivated and proactive in their daily work and have excellent oral, written, program development, program management, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Created sustainable virtual teams that developed recommendations, defined plans, and successfully acted on new opportunities
• Knowledge of Romanian/English/Russian languages