Marketing Manager (Partnership for Education)
Salary: £33,300 - £43,400
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid
Contract: Fixed term (2 years)/ Full Time (35 hours per week)
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, as well as delivering marketing and communications campaigns in collaboration with our partners.
As part of a passionate team, you'll be continuously learning and seeking new ways to share our products and projects with the world and deliver on our commitments to our clients.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading publisher, education and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
Working alongside colleagues across the business, you'll raise awareness, drive demand and encourage adoption of our products. You'll develop and implement fully integrated go-to market strategies that align with our mission, our product strategy and enable sales, including:
- Conducting market research and using insights to guide customer-centric product development
- Understanding opportunities for new products and further growth from the existing portfolio
- Liaising with colleagues in markets around the world
- You'll also be designing and delivering marketing and communications strategies as part of collaborative projects with our clients, such as ministries of education and international development 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.
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 be adept at balancing the big picture and the day-to-day, with experience across the marketing campaign lifecycle, including execution. You'll have excellent copywriting and intercultural communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously with attention to deadlines.
You have previous experience in planning, briefing and project managing marketing communications, materials and campaigns. You are good at using your own initiative, have excellent communication skills and the ability to influence others.
If you are keen to develop your marketing career, we would like to hear from you!
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
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
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Wednesday 16 October 2024 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 21 October 2024.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's 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's 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.