Salary: £29,700 - £38,550 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time, 35 hours per week
We are seeking a commercially driven and relationship-focused sales professional to join our English Sales team. In this role, you will help expand the reach of our English language learning and assessment solutions across the UK and Ireland, partnering with educational institutions and key stakeholders to support learner success and deliver against agreed targets.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
This is an exciting opportunity for a tenacious individual, passionate about education, consultative sales, and making a meaningful impact through world-class learning and assessment products.
About the role
As a Learning and Assessment Inside Sales Consultant, you will play a key role in driving profitability growth and strengthening Cambridge's presence across your region, working as part of a high-performing and collaborative sales team, you will develop both existing and new business opportunities by delivering consultative learning and assessment solutions tailored to the needs of educational partners and customers.
You will be responsible for supporting the delivery of the country strategic plan, contributing to ambitious targets across our English learning and assessment portfolio.
Through proactive relationship management and market engagement, you will help expand the reach and impact of Cambridge English products and services.
We are looking for a commercially driven and customer focused Inside Sales Consultant to join our growing English business development team. This role offers a flexible hybrid working approach and is ideal for a commercially focused and relationship-driven individual who is confident engaging with a wide range of stakeholders and motivated by delivering measurable results in a challenging environment.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Deliver product support, onboarding, and training sessions to partners and customers to maximise engagement and commercial success across the Cambridge English portfolio.
- Monitor market trends, customer needs, and competitor activity to identify opportunities for growth and strategic market development.
- Maintain accurate sales forecasts, CRM records, pipeline reporting, and customer activity updates in line with internal processes.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams including marketing, customer support, and regional stakeholders to support strategic objectives and customer success.
- Represent Cambridge University Press & Assessment professionally at events, partner engagements, and industry activities where required.
- Ensure full adherence to company ethics, compliance, and regulatory standards while promoting ethical business practices across the market.
- Proactively identify operational improvements and share market insights to support continuous business growth and customer experience enhancement.
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 bring proven experience in sales or business development, ideally within the education or learning sector, with a demonstrated ability to meet or exceed commercial targets and drive revenue growth. You are confident in using a consultative approach to build and maintain strong relationships with customers and stakeholders. You have up-to-date knowledge of the UK and Ireland education market, alongside experience of working with CRM systems to manage pipelines and forecasts accurately. You are an excellent communicator, with a high level of proficiency in English (C2 level).
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:
- Background in English language teaching, assessment, or education publishing.
- Familiarity with Cambridge learning and assessment products.
- Experience delivering product training, onboarding, or partner support.
- Ability to analyse market trends and competitor activity to identify growth opportunities.
Experience working in a fast-paced, international or matrix organisation.
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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 who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, 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, 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.
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 14th June. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from week commencing 15th June.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- One stage virtual interview via MS Teams.
- Final stage virtual interview via MS Teams. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview.
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.
