Who We Are
HMH is a learning technology company committed to delivering connected solutions that engage learners, empower educators and improve student outcomes. As a leading provider of K–12 core curriculum, supplemental and intervention solutions and professional learning services, HMH partners with educators and school districts to uncover solutions that unlock students’ potential and extend teachers’ capabilities. HMH serves more than 50 million students and 3 million educators in 150 countries.
What you will do
The Vice President, Multilingual, Translations & Strategic Sourcing, (VP- MTSS) is responsible for implementing and overseeing the execution of HMH’s content development strategy for multilingual learners, supplier partnerships, and translations strategy and support. The successful candidate has extensive experience in overseeing high profile, complex multi discipline and multilingual programs, including sourcing partnerships, and negotiations, with multiple dependencies, delivering them on time and within budget.
The VP-MTSS is the authority and responsible for the oversight of HMH’s Multilingual content development strategy, partnering with product management, learning experience, sales, and supplemental teams, as well as overseeing relationships with partners and suppliers, including establishing and vetting new partners, and is ultimately accountable for the program’s success, particularly in ensuring compliance and mitigating risk. Works collaboratively with the SVP, Enterprise Development Strategy & Services, and across the full organization including Development Teams, Legal and Finance, prioritizing needs and management of the necessary resources, including budgets, staff, relations with suppliers and partners, etc. Ensures that standards for multilingual supports, translations/ transadaptations, and supplier relationships are in line with industry best practices and HMH’s business requirements.
Ensures that team members are trained, coached, and provided with development opportunities and project assignments that meet professional and personal development needs as well as organizational and business needs. The successful candidate has an excellent understanding of digital development process, including the intricacies of educational tech publishing. Candidate also possesses professional and executive gravitas with a successful track record of outside in strategic viewpoints while driving newer digital first best in class approaches over otherwise static business models.
Core Responsibilities
Direct the development of business strategies and implementation of standards for best Multilingual support strategies, program translations and sourcing operations. Define and drive continual process improvement and go forward industry leading best practices creating a best in class organization, high performing center of excellence for HMH. Ensure all business collateral (statements of work, development terms, deal sheets, partnership terms, etc.) are executed accurately and in a timely manner, and that terms and other data are maintained in appropriate databases/tools.
Experienced in leading, building, and managing a high-performance team through coaching and mentorship. Oversees and manages professional career development for a team of sourcing, multilingual specialists, sourcing and translations professionals by conducting performance reviews and regular check-ins with functional team.
Exhibits strong people-leading skills, with the ability to develop, coach, and provide timely and effective feedback in a strong-matrix environment. Creates and cultivates strong supportive, collegial, and customer focused environment with key stakeholders across HMH, including Senior Leadership and Executive Leadership teams.
Ensure enterprise-wide needs for creating multilingual supports in content development are met, and partnership/supplier due diligence, risk assessment, and continuous monitoring of partnerships are being accomplished. Ensure that partnership terms and conditions are favorable and fair, align with policy, and maximize business potential and beneficial to HMH and overall compliance. Define and drive automation throughout the business and work of the team.
Uses functional expertise, best practice communication, and leadership skills to manage complex relationships and influence positive change. Resolves escalated translations-, supplier- or contract-related issues and/or escalates them to SVP as needed. Drives the importance of quality and accuracy with the internal and external stakeholders at every stage of the development process. Clearly conveys information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message. Meets regularly with functional team to keep them apprised of our strategic direction and how it may be supported by current and future industry evolution.
Relevant Experience and Skills