Salary: £35,200 - £45,700
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (40% to 60% at the office)
Contract: Fixed Term (12 months)
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
Are you looking to build your international marketing experience while contributing to a global organisation that makes a real impact on education?
We're looking for a Marketing Manager to join the Core Portfolio marketing team in our English business to promote our outstanding range of learning and assessment products.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
We're looking for a Marketing Manager to join the Core Portfolio marketing team and to play an integral role in bringing our marketing strategies to life.
You'll deliver creative, integrated campaigns across our exciting learning and assessment portfolio, thinking of new ways to meet our objectives and creating content that our target audiences can't ignore! You'll work across all marketing channels, utilising your range of skills and ideas. From promo videos, to websites, to social media and lots more, you'll have ample opportunity to show your enthusiasm.
You'll take ownership of campaign performance, ensuring budgets are used effectively to maximise ROI. By tracking KPIs and sharing clear insights with stakeholders, you'll continuously refine your approach and see the direct impact of your work.
This is an exciting time to join a supportive, collaborative team with ambitious plans ahead. You'll have the opportunity to shape campaigns, develop your skills and contribute to meaningful outcomes in education. A genuine passion for creating positive experiences for teachers and learners will help you thrive in this role.
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 skilled copywriter with strong attention to detail. You will have experience in planning and delivering successful, multi-channel marketing campaigns in B2B context, with a strong understanding of how best to utilise digital channels. You'll know how to tailor content to different audiences and write engaging, clear, and effective copy across all platforms. Your proven project management experience and diligent approach to deadlines will ensure multiple projects are delivered on time, while your eye for detail will ensure quality is consistently high.
You'll be a self-starter and independent, but also a strong team player who builds positive relationships with colleagues across teams and countries. You'll use your understanding of customer needs and challenges to inform your campaigns and your creativity to deliver results.
Your essential skills, knowledge and qualifications:
- Proven experience delivering high-quality marketing assets with strong attention to detail and design standards
- Excellent copywriting, editing and proofreading skills, with experience producing content for a range of channels
- Experience briefing and managing projects with external agencies, ensuring timely and high-quality delivery
- Experience measuring and reporting on campaign performance using defined KPIs and metrics
- Demonstrable experience leading and delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns
- Strong understanding of digital marketing channels and techniques
- Experience using data and insights to inform decisions and optimise campaign performance
- Strong communication skills, with experience presenting to stakeholders
- Experience working collaboratively within a team to solve problems and deliver outcomes
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines, using project management tools
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:
- Working towards, or holding, a professional marketing qualification (e.g. CIM or equivalent)
- Experience working in an international organisation or delivering marketing campaigns across global markets, with an understanding of cultural and regional differences
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 5th July. We will review applications on an ongoing basis and reserve the right to close the application early, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from week commencing 6th July.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- A short, timed virtual task, which you will be asked to complete and submit via email
- Candidates who successfully pass the task will be invited to a face-to-face interview in our Cambridge offices (with some panel members joining remotely)
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.
