Salary: £45,100 - £60,400
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (40–60% office-based at Triangle site)
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment (Dec 2027)
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Are you passionate about driving transformation and shaping the future of Academic content production?
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Our Academic Content Operations team strive to deliver high quality, accessible, and future ready content across both books and journals. To support this, we are looking to appoint a Content Transformation Lead to join our team at Cambridge University Press & Assessment.
This is an opportunity to play a key role in delivering change across our publishing content workflows and enabling innovation and continuous improvement across our products and processes.
About the role
As Content Transformation Lead, you will be responsible for leading and delivering initiatives to support the future-readiness of Academic books and journals. You will shape and implement digital‑first content workflows, lead content transformation projects, and ensure our content production processes are scalable and adaptable.
You will play a central role in defining content specifications, improving workflows, and embedding best practice in digital production and accessibility.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities:
- Lead content transformation and rework projects, ensuring delivery on time, within scope and budget
- Work with technology teams to define and implement content specifications aligned to strategic, regulatory, and quality requirements
- Drive adoption of digital‑first workflows across content teams
- Collaborate with internal teams and external suppliers to ensure efficient, scalable production processes
- Manage project plans, dependencies, risks, and stakeholder communications
- Oversee digitisation planning and budget spend
- Promote a strong digital production culture, including training and knowledge sharing
This Content Transformation Lead role offers an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of strategy, technology, and content operations.
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 are an experienced project or transformation professional with a strong understanding of publishing or digital production environments. You bring a proven ability to lead complex projects and deliver change across people, processes, and technology.
You have strong project management experience and are confident managing multiple priorities, stakeholders, and dependencies to deliver high‑quality outcomes. You are comfortable working across both books and journals contexts and understand the end‑to‑end content lifecycle.
Your skills and experience include:
- Experience in project management, delivering complex change initiatives
- Knowledge of digital production processes, including XML‑based workflows, HTML products, and accessibility standards
- Ability to lead cross‑functional projects and work effectively with technical and non‑technical stakeholders
- Experience working with external suppliers and managing delivery across distributed teams
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly present plans, risks, and progress to stakeholders
- Solutions‑focused approach with the ability to work effectively in a changing environment
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. In addition to meeting the essential criteria, candidates will ideally also be able to demonstrate the following:
- Experience delivering content transformation or digitisation programmes
- Knowledge of Agile, Lean, or other process improvement methodologies
- Awareness of industry developments such as accessibility regulations and the use of AI in publishing workflows
- Experience working across both books and journals publishing environments
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.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
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, 12 June. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on week commencing Monday, 15 June.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- First-stage interview: This will be conducted virtually via MS Teams.
- Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.
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.
