Job Title: Propositions Director Cambridge Online Education 

Salary: £88,900 – £100,000

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid  

Contract: Permanent

Come and join Cambridge Online Education as we move from start up – scale up, supporting organisations and individuals to transform their workforce and careers for the future. This is a critical role in a dynamic and newly established senior leadership team, leading new product development, creating new learning experiences and course formats for learners and new bespoke learning and development partnerships with organizations, drawing on the very best of what Cambridge has to offer. COE works across the University of Cambridge to bring the very best in professional online learning together in an ‘all-Cambridge ‘approach for our clients through a market leading portfolio of online short courses.

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

You will establish and lead a new propositions team, bringing together existing capabilities in learning design, market research and development and product management into one integrated team, including building new product models and market approaches to bespoke B2B Proposition development and identifying the biggest areas of growth for new skills based online courses.

Core responsibilities are to:

• Establish the new propositions team, hiring new roles, building a high performing team and developing new product life cycle processes, frameworks and principles
• Establish COE as a leader in skills based online learning sharing learning expertise and thought leadership raising awareness and building impact externally and internally
• Develop and apply the COE propositions strategy in line with the COE business strategy
• Manage the end-to-end product lifecycle and performance of a portfolio of propositions with overall responsibility for the product portfolio P&L and roadmap
• Ensure all COE propositions and products are developed taking a customer and market first approach, understanding deeply learner and organisational needs and reflecting this in the learning experience.
• Deliver on annual COE product pipeline high growth targets

 About you

You are an experienced leader, results driven, creative and collaborative and thrive working in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. Strategic, customer and market focussed in everything you do, a thought leader and expert in online learning, with exceptional communication, solutioning, and proposition design skills, you are both an innovator and executor driving the development of new online learning experiences at scale.

 If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, 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 with this role to spend 40% 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.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 29th November although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place during and shortly after the campaign closes.

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

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.

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, researchers and 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's 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.

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