Posted 22 May, 2026
Advanced Specialist, Project Management
Pearson
Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India
Full Time
Reference: 218_597459_24349
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 problemsolving 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 decisionfocused status reporting and insights to senior stakeholders
- Identify delivery risks early and actively manage mitigation actions and escalation paths
- Support programme governance forums with highquality 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 problemsolving, analytical, and criticalthinking 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
- Handson 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