Print & Distribution Controller

**_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 learningat 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, whetherit’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 theboundaries 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 manufactureand 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**

**Pearson Core Competencies**:
Individual:
-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

**Additional Competencies**:
Essential:

- 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 diversecolleagues, 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**

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