Marketing Manager

As part of a passionate team, in this role you'll seek new ways to share impactful products and projects with the world and support governments to improve the quality of education for all.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.   

As part of our commitment to quality education for all, we have a dedicated team that works hand-in-hand with governments and organisations transforming education across whole regions and nations: Partnership for Education.

As Marketing Manager for the Partnership for Education, you'll be a driving force in connecting governments and organisations with our growing product offer to help them reach their goals. You will also deliver marketing and communications campaigns directly in collaboration with our partners.

About the role    

Working alongside colleagues across the business, you'll raise awareness, drive demand and encourage adoption of our products and programmes. You'll develop and implement fully integrated go-to market strategies that align with our mission, our product and business strategies and enable sales, including:

• Conducting market research and using insights to guide customer-centric product and programme development
• Understanding opportunities for new products and further growth from the existing portfolio
• Liaising with colleagues in markets around the world, especially enabling sales

You'll also be designing and delivering marketing and communications strategies as part of collaborative projects with our clients, such as ministries of education, international development organisations and private organisations. These campaigns can play an important role in our clients achieving their goals, and often include working with teachers, parents, students and wider stakeholders.

Across all your work, you will measure and evaluate activities and campaigns and make recommendations for future improvements.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include: 

• Managing relationships with external delivery partners to ensure campaigns and tactics are delivered on brand, on brief and on time, and that they clearly demonstrate return on investment.

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition. 

About You  

You will be a flexible, proactive and innovative marketing professional who puts the customer at the heart of all you do. You'll bring:

• Experience in planning, briefing and project managing marketing campaigns with the customer at the centre, including:
  • Experience developing marketing messages that resonate and positively influence the target audience
  • Identifying and understanding the target audience and selecting appropriate marketing channels to meet desired outcome
  • Experience of evaluating the effectiveness of marketing activities – insights driven and results oriented
• Accurate written and spoken English and strong writing, editing and proofreading skills 
• Excellent communication skills and experience working with international audiences
• Highly organised and able to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously with attention to deadlines and technology literate, able to communicate, collaborate and enable your work using technology 
• Degree educated or equivalent experience

If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria: 

• Basic graphic design skills
• Knowledge of the education sector
  • Proven track-record of working to budgets to deliver results
  • Be a holder of or working towards a professional marketing qualification (CIM or equivalent)

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

Rewards and benefits  
 
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including: 

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays 
• Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance  
• Discretionary annual bonus  
• Group personal pension scheme 
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary  
• Green travel schemes  

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

  We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Friday 27 March. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect first interviews to take place on 7 and 8 April and final interviews on 14 April.  

  If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect: 

• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams with the hiring manager and another colleague you'll be working closely with in the team. 
• Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge with the hiring manager and with another colleague you'll be working with closely in the team, followed by informal coffee with several further members of the team. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task during the interview, there is no preparation required in advance. 

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. 

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter. 

Why join us  

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. 

We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.

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