Advanced Associate, Programme Support Coordinator, Strategy

The Role

In this role, you will sit at the centre of strategy execution, bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to strategic priorities across the business unit. You will support the Programme Manager and Director of PMO & Strategy by ensuring that OKRs, growth initiatives, governance forums, and leadership commitments remain aligned, visible, and on track. You’ll gather updates, validate data, maintain dashboards, and turn complex information into clear, decision‑ready insights. In your first six months, your impact will be seen through improved visibility of strategy deliverables, trusted reporting, and well‑run planning cycles that enable confident leadership decisions. This opportunity offers close exposure to senior leadership and strategic direction. You won’t just track actions — you will help shape how strategy is operationalised, communicated, and delivered across the organisation.

What You’ll Own

Success in this role means driving clarity, consistency, and discipline across strategic programmes and initiatives.

• OKR & Performance Coordination
• Gather updates, evidence, and metrics from OKR owners; verify data accuracy and completeness.
• Maintain OKR dashboards and trackers, ensuring alignment and version control.
• Prepare weekly and monthly summaries, as well as quarterly review packs for Programme Manager sign‑off.
• Strategy Deliverables & Rhythm of Business
• Maintain a single, up‑to‑date view of strategy deliverables, including owners, milestones, dependencies, and due dates.
• Manage an integrated calendar of planning cycles, checkpoints, and governance forums (e.g., quarterly planning, monthly business reviews, Investment Review Board).
• Consolidate status updates into regular summaries; track actions and decisions through to closure.
• Ensure trackers and dashboards remain aligned, current, and accessible to stakeholders.
• Strategy Documentation & Governance
• Maintain and update strategy documents (priorities, roadmaps, investment cases), ensuring they reflect the latest direction.
• Ensure version control and a clear single source of truth.
• Record decisions and changes accurately.
• Support synthesis and formatting of materials for audience‑appropriate communication.
• Leadership & Cross‑Functional Coordination
• Coordinate inputs with leadership and cross‑functional teams for key meetings, including the Investment Review Board.
• Consolidate content into clear meeting packs and track actions through to completion.
• Escalate gaps, issues, or decision requirements to the Programme Manager in a timely manner.
• Data & Reporting Support
• Support the Programme Manager in responding to strategy and data requests from leadership and teams.
• Compile and validate data, building required outputs including presentations and papers.
• Coordinate inputs from data owners and ensure consistency across reports.
• PMO & Growth Initiatives Support
• Provide delivery and reporting support to the Director of PMO & Strategy as required.
• Track growth initiatives, maintaining a consolidated view of pipeline, status, success metrics, and expected outcomes.
• Prepare concise leadership updates, action logs, and follow‑ups.
• Facilitate communication between project teams and stakeholders, ensuring timely escalation of risks and decisions.

About You

You are highly organised, detail‑oriented, and comfortable operating in a fast‑paced, evolving environment. You bring structure to complexity and clarity to information.

• Strong organisational and project coordination skills.
• Experience supporting strategic projects or programmes.
• The ability to manage competing priorities while maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.
• Data literacy and the ability to produce clear dashboards, executive summaries, and reports.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills across senior stakeholders and cross‑functional teams.
• You thrive in environments where precision, accountability, and proactive follow‑through are valued.

This is a hybrid role aligned to our London office (80 Strand, WC2R 0RL). You will work primarily remotely, with an expectation to attend the office approximately once per week or as needed for collaboration, events, or training. The role is full‑time (37.5 hours per week), Monday to Friday, with flexibility around core working hours.

What You’ll Get

This role offers a unique opportunity to work at the heart of strategic delivery within the business unit. You will:

• Gain exposure to senior leadership and governance forums.
• Develop expertise in strategy operations, OKR management, and programme coordination.
• Strengthen your analytical, reporting, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Play a visible role in enabling business growth initiatives and strategic outcomes.
• Contribute directly to ensuring that strategy is not only defined — but delivered with discipline, clarity, and impact.

Your Benefits And Rewards

• 25 days’ annual leave (increasing by 1 day for every year of continuous service, up to 30 days), with the option to trade annual leave ±5 days.
• Annual Bonus.
• Private pension plan where we contribute double what you pay in, up to 16% depending on your age.
• Private medical and dental insurance options, plus free eye tests.
• Stock/share purchase options.
• Maternity, paternity, and family care leave, alongside flexible working policies.
• Employee wellbeing assistance programme.
• Cycle to work scheme, volunteering days, gym membership concessions (in selected office locations), and retail and leisure discounts.

Ready to Make an Impact? Apply now and help shape how strategy is executed, tracked, and delivered with excellence.

Who We Are

At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realise the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world’s lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn’t just what we do. It’s who we are.