Industry Collaboration Expert

Exciting Opportunity: Industry Collaboration Expert at Pearson in Amman, Jordan!

Are you ready to make a real impact with your innovative ideas? Join our dynamic team at Pearson! We offer a 12-month fixed-term contract with the flexibility of remote work. If this sounds like the perfect fit for you, keep reading to learn more.

Who are we? At Pearson, our mission is to add life to a lifetime of learning. We believe in the transformative power of education and are dedicated to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. Our vision is to help everyone realize the life they imagine through learning. We are committed to bravery, decency, and imagination in everything we do . Recently, Pearson has been recognized for its innovative approach to education and its commitment to sustainability, earning accolades for our efforts in driving positive change in the learning landscape. Learn more at: Our Company | Pearson plc

About Workforce Skills: Workforce Skills is one of the five key business units within Pearson. Pearson Global Workforce Skills focuses on providing cutting-edge solutions that empower individuals and organizations to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Our solutions are designed to enhance skills, improve employability, and drive career success. Learn more about WFS and our solutions: Pearson Global| Workforce Skills

Role Overview and Purpose: The Stakeholder manager plays a pivotal role in driving growth of Pearson vocational qualifications and services, within the Jordanian market, positioning. Pearson as an organisation dedicated to addressing employability skills gaps, and driving partnerships and engagement with industry. 

Possessing excellent commercial skills, coupled with a good understanding of market, competitor analysis and customer needs, you will drive growth of the portfolio; identifying opportunities, leading on partnerships to drive growth and expansion. Your excellent communication skills and passion for whatever you do will enable you to champion the Pearson brand with internal and external stakeholders.  

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with energy, innovation, and vision, who is looking to make a difference and be a key part of Pearson’s employability agenda. If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!  

• Possessing excellent commercial skills, you will develop and manage highly visible relationships and partnerships with key stakeholders, including sales teams, global employers, professional bodies, industry groups; providing thought leadership on market and industry trends and seeking recognition of Pearson qualifications to support student progression into employment.   
• Your understanding of market needs and passion for addressing skills gap within industry, will enable you to drive commercial partnerships with stakeholders; formulating and presenting Pearson solutions to fill gaps and driving revenue growth Pearson internationally.  
• You will be the go-to expert in terms of employment and skills data, identifying key market segments, and employers and industry with whom you will build effective collaborations. 
• Your passion for the employability and skills agenda, coupled with good research skills and a can-do attitude, will enable you to lead on initiatives on industry trends, develop employability  services and tools to support our proposition and articulate how Pearson vocational qualifications interact with career paths to support student progression into jobs. 

Key Deliverables

• Build and manage relationships with market-leading employers, professional bodies and industry groups; seeking recognition to support students’ progression into employment and ensuring visibility of Pearson’s industry engagement .  
• Identify and drive commercial partnerships with employers/groups in focus sectors, developing an understanding of needs and maximising commercial opportunities.  
• Understand market drivers, champion these, and translate these into  opportunities for colleagues to bring opportunities to fruition. 
• Identify and support initiatives; working with colleagues in the UK and Jordan to define a go to market strategy.  
• Monitor the marketplace; identifying and sharing information on global skills gaps, trends and key competitor activity, driving action through other teams where necessary.  
• Lead  panels and events, lead on thought leadership and raise the profile of Pearson . 
• Manage and define industry relations and partnerships’ operational plan and budget, ensuring activities provide value for money and are in line with Pearson’s strategy.  

Personal Style, Experience, Skills and qualifications that help you to succeed in this role:

• Excellent team worker with exceptional communication skills, both written and oral, including business writing skills.
• Ability to find solutions to problems, flag issues appropriately, and work flexibly with international stakeholders.
• Desire to work on multiple projects in a fast-paced environment, with a forward-thinking, pragmatic, and commercial approach.
• Proven track record in leading and managing innovative projects, developing successful long-term strategies, and driving market-winning propositions.
• Experience in conducting research, building partnerships, driving joint ventures, and working within an international educational context.
• Commercial experience, including knowledge of vocational education, current market, and policy.
• Passion for identifying skills gaps and driving employability agendas in education.
• Leadership skills (Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading the Business), ethical, customer-focused, transformational, and innovative.
• Team player, driven, strong networker, effective communicator, and problem solver.
• Native Arabic speaker.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion 

We’re committed to equity and opportunity, so that all learners can realise the life they imagine and see themselves in our services and products. We believe learning is a powerful force for change and that diversity, equity and inclusion are fundamental to who we are. We’re committed to addressing all forms of systematic racism, discrimination and inequality in everything we do. We also believe in giving everyone in the company the chance to help shape a more inclusive culture, in which everyone feels a sense of belonging and in which everyone acts with integrity day-in, day-out. To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here. 

Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience. We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity. The information you provide will stay confidential and will be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process.  We are a Stonewall Gold and Top 20 LGBT+ inclusive employer, Investors in People Gold, Race Charter signatory, Disability Confident employer and Working Mums Top Employer.