Job Title: Product Manager X 2
Salary: £49, 300 – £65, 950 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK, Hybrid
Contract: 1 x Permanent, 1 x Fixed Term (Maternity Cover until at least the 31 January 2027)
Hours: Both Full time (35 hours per week)
About the role
As Product Manager, you will lead and implement product strategies across a portfolio, delivering high-quality print and digital resources that engage and inspire teachers and students in international markets.
You will champion deep customer understanding, using research and insight to shape a pipeline of competitive, curriculum‑aligned products and services that meet the evolving needs of international education.
You will act as the lead advocate for key products, working collaboratively with internal teams across Products & Services, Global Marketing, and our International Network, as well as externally with teachers, consultants, and authors. The role requires strong commercial awareness and a genuine commitment to improving teaching outcomes and professional practice.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Leading product strategy and development across a defined portfolio
- Designing and delivering customer research to inform product decisions
- Building compelling business cases and product proposals
- Collaborating cross‑functionally to deliver successful product launches
- Ensuring products remain competitive, profitable, and aligned to curriculum needs
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. Flexible working arrangements are available from day one, including adjustments for disabilities or long‑term health conditions.
About You
You will bring proven experience in product management or product development within a publishing or content‑led environment, with the ability to translate customer insight into successful product outcomes.
You will demonstrate:
- Experience working with authors, consultants, or external contributors
- Strong research capability, including designing and delivering customer insight plans
- Ability to create clear, persuasive proposals and business cases
- Commercial awareness and a focus on delivering impactful, customer‑driven products
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:
- Understanding of the international schools or education market
- Experience delivering both print and digital products
- A collaborative and adaptable approach, with a willingness to challenge and improve ways of working
- You will consistently demonstrate our values by working in ways that are collaborative, empowering, innovative, and responsible.
Rewards and benefits
- 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 × annual salary
- Green travel schemes
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 who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, 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.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
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