Print & Distribution Controller

☞ Pearson

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Update day: 01-06-2024

Location: Rotherham Yorkshire and the Humber

Category: Accounting / Auditing Finance / Bank / Stock

Industry: E-Learning Providers Education Administration Programs

Job type: Full-time

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About Pearson

We are the world’s learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

At Pearson, we’re committed to a world that’s always learning and to our talented team who makes it all possible. From bringing lectures vividly to life to turning textbooks into laptop lessons, we are always re-examining the way people learn best, whether it’s one child in our own backyard or an education community across the globe. We are bold thinkers and standout innovators who motivate each other to explore new frontiers in an environment that supports and inspires us to always be better. By pushing the boundaries of technology — and each other to surpass these boundaries — we create seeds of learning that become the catalyst for the world’s innovations, personal and global, large and small.

About The Team

The Secure Team within Pearson Qualification Services handles more than 4,000 printed items per year, producing more than 9 million question papers. As a Secure Print & Distribution Controller it will be your responsibility to ensure the manufacture and despatch of question papers and related examination materials under secure conditions and to agreed schedules. You will take end-to-end ownership of specific despatches to ensure a joined-up workflow and successful delivery.

Key Activities And Responsibilities
  • Maintaining and updating the secure print database
  • Processing question papers when they are passed for press to ensure they are fit for printing
  • Raising print orders with suppliers
  • Tracking consignments to centres and assisting centres with distribution queries
  • Processing orders for on-demand tests
  • SFTing electronic versions of question papers to centres on the day of the exam
Key Challenges
  • The security of question papers and assessment materials must be maintained at all times through the adherence to set processes and procedures.
  • The quality and accuracy of question papers and instructions given to suppliers in print orders requires excellent attention to detail.
  • Working to tight deadlines and managing the end to end process to ensure question papers are despatched to centres on time and within agreed KPIs.
  • Working with fluctuating volumes.
  • The tight deadlines and fluctuating volumes require a flexible attitude towards achieving deadlines – at peak times of question paper activity, extra hours may be required to complete work.
Qualifications

Competencies

Individual

Pearson Core Competencies:
  • Providing a customer focused service
  • Communicating with influence
  • Working with others to achieve goals
  • Delivering goals in a changing environment
  • Taking a creative and innovative approach to work
  • Maximising potential in self and others
Essential

Additional Competencies:
  • Attention to detail: Able to create and maintain consistent records relating to the progress and order details for question papers.
  • Methodical approach: Ability to concentrate and focus on meeting deadlines and objectives.
  • Communication skills: Ability to comprehend and provide clear instructions with suppliers, colleagues and internal customers.
  • Financial knowledge: Numerate and happy to work with figures on order quantities, purchase order costs and invoices.
  • Teamwork skills: Ability to work positively with other members of the team.
  • Analytical skills: seek to understand the bigger picture and the impact of up and downstream activities.
Your Benefits & Reward

We’ll expect a lot and we know you’ll do great work, so we give a lot back with some of the best benefits in the business! Along with learning, development and mentoring opportunities, our range of benefits can support the different needs of our diverse colleagues, and their families too. Joining our Pearson family can provide you with unlimited and truly global career progression options, and you can also look forward to exploring our impressive benefits, such as:
  • Flexible options for work from home days.
  • A starting holiday of 25 days plus UK public holidays, and you’ll earn 1 additional day’s holiday per year you work with us.
  • Generous pension scheme where we match and double what you contribute.
  • Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible work policies.
  • Shares and stock purchase options.
  • Healthcare and dental plans, and an employee wellbeing assistance programme for you and your family to help balance work, family and personal life.
  • Cycle to work program, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts.
Our Recruitment Process

Please complete and submit your application as soon as possible and ensure that you apply directly on our Pearson Careers website only.

We are reviewing applications as they come in, therefore we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible. Wishing you success with your application!

Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 20,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them. We are the world’s leading learning company. Learn more at pearsonplc.com. Pearson believes that wherever learning flourishes, so do people. We are committed to being an anti-racist company in everything we do. We value the power of an inclusive culture and a strong sense of belonging. We promote a culture where differences are embraced, opportunities are accessible, consideration and respect are the norm, and all individuals are supported in reaching their full potential. Through our talent, we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion make us a more innovative and vibrant place to work. People are at the center, and we are committed to a sustainable environment and workplace where talent can learn, grow, and thrive.

To learn more about Pearson’s commitment to a diverse and inclusive workforce, please click here:  http://www.pearson.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion.html

Pearson is an equal opportunities employer. We do not discriminate against employees or job applicants and select the best person for each job based on relevant skills and experience.

We are also committed to building an accurate picture of the make-up of the workforce and encouraging equality and diversity.

The information you provide will stay confidential, and be stored securely. It will not be seen by those involved in making decisions as part of the recruitment process.

Job: GENERAL BUSINESS OPERATIONS

Organization: Assessment & Qualifications

Schedule: FULLTIME

Req ID: 6255

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Deadline: 16-07-2024

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