Job Title: Senior Marketing Executive
Salary: £34,500 - £39,500 per annum
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (expectation of 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Full time, 12 month fixed term maternity cover
We are seeking an experienced marketing professional to join our busy Subject Marketing team in an exciting maternity cover role.
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 will be responsible for the planning and delivery of a range of marketing activities to support our prestigious Law books list. Collaborating with colleagues across various publishing functions, you will create and execute high-impact global marketing campaigns, while providing an outstanding service to our authors. This varied and busy role provides an experienced marketer with the flexibility to manage the list using their own creative flair and experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Planning and executing marketing campaigns to ensure that your products reach their target markets and meet sales/usage targets. Activities will include email marketing, social media, content creation, search marketing, advertising, and events
- Evaluating and reporting on campaigns using analytics, combined with customer sales and usage data
- Managing your subject budget
- Engaging in contact acquisition activities to grow internal database of marketing contacts
- Managing relationships with key internal and external business stakeholders, ensuring that there is clear two-way communication from product development through to marketing strategy
- Representation of the organisation at external events, including academic conferences and book launches, providing a professional, customer-facing profile for the business
About You
- An experienced marketing professional with at least 2 years' relevant experience
- You will possess excellent written/verbal communication, copywriting, copyediting and proofreading skills
- You will be highly organised, adept at managing multiple demands/ deadlines, with a proven ability to think creatively and trouble-shoot
- You will possess exceptional delegation skills, an agile mindset and be highly adaptable to change
- You are comfortable working autonomously, with an ability to forge effective and collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders
- A professional marketing qualification is desirable
- Experience in the book publishing sector would also be advantageous
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 12th September. Interviews are scheduled to take place mid-late September.
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.
