Business Change Manager - 5980
Location
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/18/2025
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Description
Job Title: Business Change Manager
Salary: £34,500 - £44,850
Location: Cambridge, Coventry, or Gateshead (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent, full time (35 hours per week)
We're seeking a Business Change Manager who's passionate about driving improvement while balancing change opportunities with fixed deadlines.
As part of a team of change experts, you'll manage projects across Cambridge UK Education to ensure change is delivered effectively and strategically. You'll also support continuous improvement by partnering with business functions to provide guidance, structure, and challenge.
This role combines project management, change management, and business analysis skills.
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
In this role, you'll manage and support key change initiatives across Cambridge UK Education, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and lasting value. You'll apply a flexible, value-driven approach to project and change management, adapting methods to fit the scale and nature of each initiative while working closely with stakeholders to embed sustainable improvements.
Key responsibilities include:
You are a change and project management professional who learns quickly, thinks critically, and enjoys solving problems. With excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, you're able to build strong cross-functional relationships and influence effectively at all levels. You're resilient and innovative, able to meet the challenges of delivering change, and you take ownership of delivery with a focus on continuous improvement. You also understand business and stakeholder needs, helping OCR deliver an outstanding assessment experience.
This is a chance to make a meaningful impact on OCR's transformation. In return, you'll join a supportive team that will help you grow from a manager into a leader of change.
In addition, you will also have:
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:
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 29 August 2025 with interviews scheduled to take place on the week commencing 22 September 2025.
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.
Salary: £34,500 - £44,850
Location: Cambridge, Coventry, or Gateshead (Hybrid)
Contract: Permanent, full time (35 hours per week)
We're seeking a Business Change Manager who's passionate about driving improvement while balancing change opportunities with fixed deadlines.
As part of a team of change experts, you'll manage projects across Cambridge UK Education to ensure change is delivered effectively and strategically. You'll also support continuous improvement by partnering with business functions to provide guidance, structure, and challenge.
This role combines project management, change management, and business analysis skills.
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
In this role, you'll manage and support key change initiatives across Cambridge UK Education, ensuring alignment with strategic priorities and lasting value. You'll apply a flexible, value-driven approach to project and change management, adapting methods to fit the scale and nature of each initiative while working closely with stakeholders to embed sustainable improvements.
Key responsibilities include:
- Managing projects and workstreams across all lifecycle stages, using best-practice planning, financial oversight, and risk management.
- Identifying and managing change impacts, ensuring successful adoption and long-term benefits.
- Engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels, including senior sponsors and cross-functional teams.
- Managing high-risk or business-critical initiatives with agility and resilience.
- Representing projects in governance forums and contributing to continuous improvement by sharing and adopting best practices across the organisation.
You are a change and project management professional who learns quickly, thinks critically, and enjoys solving problems. With excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset, you're able to build strong cross-functional relationships and influence effectively at all levels. You're resilient and innovative, able to meet the challenges of delivering change, and you take ownership of delivery with a focus on continuous improvement. You also understand business and stakeholder needs, helping OCR deliver an outstanding assessment experience.
This is a chance to make a meaningful impact on OCR's transformation. In return, you'll join a supportive team that will help you grow from a manager into a leader of change.
In addition, you will also have:
- Proven track record in identifying, initiating, and delivering change
- Experience working in a project and/or process improvement initiatives
- Experience with process improvement tools and techniques, including mapping
- Understanding of the UK awarding organisation and regulatory environment
- Strong people management and matrix management capabilities
- Demonstrable skills in user acceptance testing: planning, execution, and reporting
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 review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 29 August 2025 with interviews scheduled to take place on the week commencing 22 September 2025.
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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