Job Title: Marketing Manager, Primary (Schools)                 

Salary: £33,300 - £43,400

Location: Cambridge; UK. Hybrid (2 days per working from the office are expected)

Contract: Full time, permanent

We're looking for a Marketing Manager to join the Schools sector marketing team and to lead on the implementation of marketing, in particular writing and creating engaging content, across an exciting portfolio of products in the Primary sector.  

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 global Schools sector marketing team and to play an integral role in bringing our marketing strategies to life in the Primary sector. 

You'll lead on the delivery of creative, integrated campaigns across our exciting Primary 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, copywriting skills and attention to detail.  

Our Primary learning and assessment portfolio is full of fun and personality, and you'll find plenty of humour in there too. You'll work collaboratively with marketing colleagues in Cambridge and around the world to deliver the best campaigns possible, to support the growth of this portfolio. 

You'll make sure budgets are spent in the best way to deliver ROI, measure the success of your campaigns against KPIs and present your analysis to stakeholders, taking forward learnings to your next projects. 

We have lots to do and ambitious goals to reach, so it's an exciting time to join the Schools marketing team and to bring your experience to the table. A genuine passion for education and creating positive experiences for teachers and learners will make this role more enjoyable and fulfilling. 

About you

You will have a range of experience in planning and delivering successful, multi-channel marketing campaigns, 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, and 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:  

• Exceptional copywriting, editing and proofreading skills 
• Attention to detail and eye for design
• Experience briefing and delivering projects with external agencies  
• Proven experience leading and delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns
• Experience measuring and reporting on campaign success
• Strong understanding of digital marketing 
• Insights-driven and results-oriented 
• Excellent communicator and confident presenter 
• A proactive team player who seeks solutions to challenges 
• Highly organised and motivated to manage competing deadlines, and experience of using project management tools  

If you would like to know more about this opportunity, 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.

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact. We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for. Because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to develop in their own way. Whether you want a career that's linear, or want to follow your own path, we'll support you, and help give you the resources and training you'll need to be bold and take ownership of what you do.  

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 22nd September 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place the week commencing 30th September 2024

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet. 

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