Job Title: Associate Content Manager

Salary: £26,600 - £32,600

Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid. (at least 2 days per week in the office)

Contract: Permanent 

Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)

Join us as an Associate Content Manager, where you'll play a key role in shaping high‑quality academic publications while collaborating closely with authors, editors, and cross-functional teams. This is an exciting opportunity to grow your expertise, contribute to prestigious titles, and develop your potential in a team that values continuous learning, innovation, and meaningful impact.
 

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  

As an Associate Content Manager, your role will be to support authors throughout the entire publication process across a range of subject areas, from manuscript submission to the final delivery of print and digital files, with the opportunity to work on some of our most prestigious titles. You will liaise with external contacts, including editors and authors (some of whom are high-profile academics), as well as internal colleagues across Editorial, Design, Content Services, Marketing, Publicity, and Sales, and external suppliers, to achieve the best results for Cambridge and the academic community.
  

This role is ideal for someone who can be both organised and innovative. We handle a high volume of content alongside initiatives to support continuous improvement. Excellent communication skills, efficiency, and a willingness to trial new workflows are key for this role.

You will be provided with ongoing training and development opportunities to support our products and your own career goals. Associate Content Managers sit within Content Operations, the team responsible for publication processes and quality assurance for our Academic books, Elements, and journals. There are opportunities to learn more about other content types and subject areas, and we encourage learning and flexibility.
  

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  
 
To be successful you will demonstrate you are decisive, collaborative, innovative, responsible, and responsive. You will have great organisational skills, thrive in collaboration with other colleagues, and will enjoy the challenge of developing relationships and trust with key external and internal contacts. You will enjoy working in a fast-paced environment and coming up with and implementing new ideas for ways of working, demonstrating an entrepreneurial spirit. Ideal candidates will have an interest in publishing and a desire to learn as they will be trained in role.
 
You will be familiar with the priorities and pressures for our customers and be confident in corresponding with external and internal colleagues at any level of seniority. You will be dependable, engaged, and able to tackle problems with a ‘can-do' attitude to set us up for success in an evolving industry landscape.

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: 

• Previous publishing experience is not required but would be an advantage.

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, 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 25 February 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from week commencing 2 March 2026. 

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

• First-stage virtual interview via MS Teams.
• Role-related task, which may be provided after successfully completing the first interview.
• Final-stage interview (virtual or in-person at Cambridge offices), if needed, for further assessment of shortlisted candidates. 

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.