Nick Kovaios

Experience

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  Cambridge University Press

  Mar 2007 - now

  Digital Portfolio Manager, English Language Teaching, Digital Strategy Team. The role involves working with a wide range of stakeholders including publishing, technology and operations teams to ensure that our e-learning content and educational technology offering align with customer needs and expectations as well as with the business strategic objectives. The offering includes educational technology products serving a global audience. One of the key objectives has been to enable data-driven decision making within the business, which has been achieved by gathering and analysing complex data sets and presenting them to stakeholders in a clear visual display. The team has also compiled user and market scenarios relevant to our products. Benefits of this include: enabling the data-driven curation of product development roadmaps; informing future strategy; allowing the construction of solid business cases. We have enabled the business to work in a more market-centred and data-driven product development environment, promoting Agile. Show less Digital Operations Portfolio Manager, English Language Teaching, Schools. Being part of the Operations team, the role involved maintaining a programme-level view of the publishing portfolio, with a stronger focus on data-driven forecasting of costs, resources and duration of upcoming projects. Another key aspect of the role was collaborating with the publishing and technology teams to help define new product needs and map them to the best available solutions. The role required working cross-functionally to identify inter-dependencies and opportunities for efficiencies. Show less

  • Programme Manager

    May 2016 - now

  • Digital Portfolio Manager

    Oct 2015 - Apr 2016

  • Digital Operations Portfolio Manager, Schools

    Nov 2013 - Sept 2015

  • Digital Project Manager

    Jun 2010 - Oct 2013

  • Digital Project Developer

    Mar 2007 - May 2010