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Promethean are a global leader and innovator in interactive learning technology that empowers teachers to engage, educate, assess and motivate learners. Developed by and for education professionals, its award-winning products help teachers to prepare digital lessons quickly and easily.

The company supplies Activboard and the latest Activboard+2, the world's most durable interactive whiteboard technology; Activstudio, a software platform for secondary teaching; and Activprimary, the leading whiteboard software designed specifically for use in primary schools and kindergarten.

It also offers personal hand-held Activote and Activexpression response units which provide instant polling and analysis to promote learning and teacher productivity. Promethean are committed to supporting effective use of classroom technologies and offer a comprehensive support and professional development service to enable optimum usage and return on investment.

Promethean's headquarters are in Blackburn, in the United Kingdom. Its products are distributed through a global network of partners and inspire millions of learners in more than 70 countries.

THE POSITION-Head of Learner Response Systems

Reporting to the Head of Product Management, this role will have global responsibility for the Group Learning Systems portfolio. Group Learning Systems is currently Promethean's largest and most profitable line of business and includes Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) and other ancillary products.

THE IDEAL CANDIDATE

Has a background in the Education Interactive Systems marketplace, or relevant commercial market. Specific experience desired for this role includes:

Significant experience managing the financial success of a portfolio of products in a similar or larger organization.

Substantial experience in a relevant education/commercial environment

Strong commercial and financial acumen with the ability to manage the combination of commercial objectives and customer requirements.

Possess an engineer to market mindset, while thinking from the user perspective vs. just technology. Full product life cycle experience, inception of product to marketing capability.

Capable of bringing knowledge and capability from building boxes to shifting to a solutions and integrated portfolio mentality (Hardware/software/services/training etc.).

ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND COMPTENCIES

Excellent written and oral communications skills.
Outstanding project management skills.
Bringing products into a global arena and understanding cultural diversity.
Ability to work effectively building relationships, while influencing ideas and programs across internal and external organizations/customers.
A passion for the product line and the subsequent benefits to education and the learning environment.
Outstanding leadership skills and the ability to bring out the best in employees in a team environment.
As the culture can be described as communicative, open and direct, honest, disciplined but flexible, fast and results oriented, the qualified candidate should match up well with these key attributes to be successful. Smart, innovative, and resourceful people will flourish in this company. To assist in the candidate's development and substantially grow the company, Promethean has assembled a Global Leadership Team of highly talented professionals.
An undergraduate degree is desired in corresponding functional disciplines of the role, with an MBA being a plus.

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