Job Title: Senior Marketing Executive

Salary: £34,500 - £44,850 per annum

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent/Full Time (35 hours per week)

A chance to develop a career within the marketing department of a leader in the educational sector, actively making a difference to our learners around the world. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Senior Marketing Executive to join a passionate, fast-paced marketing environment providing world class support to our millions of customers and qualifications around the world.   

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 a Senior Marketing Executive, you'll oversee the planning, delivery and reporting on part of our prestigious Journals list. You'll be working with dedicated, supportive and friendly colleagues across many teams to create and deliver high-impact global marketing plans while providing an outstanding publishing service to our readers, authors and publishing partners.

This varied and busy role provides an experienced marketer the freedom to develop the role/list management with their own flair and skills.

Some key accountabilities will be, but not limited to:

• Planning and executing marketing campaigns to ensure products reach their target markets and sales targets are met. To include: email marketing, blog posts, social media, content marketing, brand marketing, advertising, print marketing and management (virtual and in-person) of stands at key conferences and society events.
• Working in partnership with key internal and external business stakeholders on product and brand development and publishing strategies.
• Evaluating and reporting on marketing campaigns through the targeted use of campaign analytics and metrics, combined with customer sales and usage data.
• Embrace change and work independently, to set deadlines and will also involve working closely other teams including editorial and marketing services colleagues.
• Autonomous forward planning and budget management to ensure spend is allocated to strategically important subject areas and products.

About you

As our next Senior Marketing Executive, you will have a strong understanding of marketing principles and strategies along with the ability to analyse data and make informed decisions. You will have excellent communication and presentation skills with proven commercial awareness.

In addition, to be successful in this role, you will:

• Have proficiency in marketing software and tools.

• demonstrate the ability and confidence to stand in for the Marketing Manager/Senior Marketing Manager as and when required, representing the department to senior stakeholders.
• act as a mentor for new starters across the department along with supporting and empowering other members in the team as and when required.

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 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.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. 

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Sunday 5^th January 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place shortly after the closing date.  

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

 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.

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 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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