Manager, Education Product Development

Description

SUMMARY

This position is responsible for the strategic planning, development, and digital implementation of AMPP’s Educational products. The responsibility includes the development of fresh and relevant content and delivery mechanisms, ensuring learning products are coordinated with current and future global delivery needs towards the achievement of organizational net revenue goals, and the coordinated growth and delivery of Educational products across the organization.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Leads Educational product development, strategy, and redesign, from concept through development to market launch.
• Serve as a principal driver in shifting existing Educational product development practices from knowledge-management principles to those more closely aligned to user experience principles and practices.
• Develops Educational products by reviewing available market research and information about customers’ needs and desires, generating product requirements and determining specifications, production timetables, pricing, and time-integrated plans for product introduction in collaboration with Sales and Advertising teams.
• Evaluate, leverage and integrate technology as well as best practices in adult learning and pedagogy, instructional design, content writing, quality assurance, and product lifecycle management to ensure that AMPP’s Education portfolio is aligning to AMPP’s Strategic Goals.
• Collaborate with Product Portfolio Managers to identify and provide timely scoping of product development work so that it is planned, designed and implemented in a synchronized and coordinated fashion that corresponds with the speed of the business and is responsive and specific to specific customers’ needs.
• Design and develop a sustainable Subject-Matter-Expert-driven system and approach to Educational product development.
• Design and implement a system for monitoring and distributing workloads of AMPP development staff and respective third party solution providers, utilizing workload management principles to track and balance assignments, as well as real-time capacity to deliver against the overall portfolio of work.
• Establish and maintain required overflow capacity and resources, while developing and maintaining relationships with suppliers and service providers that account for ongoing management of performance, as well as implementation of AMPP intellectual property protection and cost control mechanisms.
• Represent Educational Product Development on cross-functional Marketing and Sales Enablement team, providing guidance around the ways in which new products align to AMPP branding and sales objectives.
• Coordinate and communicate regularly with members, industry subject matter experts, and staff with a focus to ensure timely development and sunsetting of education products so that the AMPP portfolio meets current, emerging, and future industry and market needs.
• Develop and maintain relationships with other learning association bodies and professionals to enhance AMPP’s competitive position, including keeping AMPP governance, policies, and procedures current with best practices and in compliance with IACET and ISO requirements.
• Develop and maintain communications in a cooperative and professional manner with all levels of AMPP staff, members, and customers to ensure a positive brand image, teamwork, alignment, and attainment of AMPP’s organizational goals.
• Hire, develop, coach, and inspire talent to effectively lead and manage to maintain solid succession  planning and ensure attainment of goals and in alignment with AMPP culture and core values.

Qualifications

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS

Some travel is expected for this role (less than 25%) and passport may be required.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

• 4-year college degree in Technology Management, Business Management, Product Development, and/or a related subject.
• A minimum of 10 years experience in Educational Product Development and/or User Experience Design/Development.
• Demonstrated experience with Reusable Learning Objects and XML-based content development.
• Related work experience creating Educational Products and Services specific to the heavy industrial market.
• Related work experience particularly in a commercial, customer-facing Educational Product Development capacity.