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Role Description

We’re hiring a Strategy and Transformation Manager who can take on high‑impact strategic and analytical work across the company. You’ll play a key role in shaping growth initiatives, improving operations, and guiding leaders with strong business insights and data. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in ambiguity, thinks critically, structures problems clearly, and communicates with confidence across diverse teams.

• Lead important strategic and operational improvement projects to support growth goals and new corporate priorities across Cengage Group.
• Address risks within business unit operating models.
• As needed, lead integrations of acquisitions, including developing and maintaining Cengage’s integration playbook, and leading cross-functional integration teams.
• Lead analyses, workshops, and project teams to identify improvement areas and develop solutions to increase business efficiency, carrying out large scale projects that span across Cengage Group.
• Work hand-in-hand with external research or consulting teams, bolstering work with relevant internal analysis or process understanding to provide well-rounded recommendations.
• Provide impactful strategy recommendations and analysis on new and proposed commercial models.
• Drive analysis and thought leadership on improving our overall services to our internal and external customers, ensuring we remain best in class.
• Identify and unlock sources of efficiency, alignment, simplicity and scale for the entire organization.
• Identify and track interesting adjacencies and important macro-trends.
• Coach and mentor analysts for project success and their professional development.

Qualifications

• A four-year college degree with high achievement and/or previous experience.
• 5+ years of professional experience, including corporate experience, professional services organization (consulting) and/or cross-functional leadership roles (strategy, business operations, transformation).
• Track record of achievement in delivering large, complex projects and influencing business outcomes as a highly collaborative partner.
• Demonstrated ability to frame, visualize and contextualize complex and ambiguous problems.
• Ability to lead a high-impact agenda with a diverse group of executives and business collaborators.
• Ability to challenge ideas and norms with thoughtful arguments; is a leader with a point of view who is creative and confident in identifying solutions and persuading others to a course of action.
• Intellectual curiosity to quickly become a crucial advisor within the areas of investigation.
• Highly developed analytical skills and data savvy; strong quantitative and problem-solving toolkit.
• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence; proven record as a great teammate.
• Capacity to work independently or as part of a team with a “roll up your sleeves” approach.
• Passion for identifying and championing sources of business value.
• Prior experience leading successful business transformation projects.
• Excellent written, oral, presentation, and facilitation skills.

Benefits

• Comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower employees.
• Eligibility to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program.
• 15% Annual: Individual Target bonus.
• Base pay range: $101,900.00 - $132,450.00 USD.

Company Description

Cengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms.

• We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide.
• Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.