Senior Project Manager - 5534

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

1/20/2025

Job Title: Senior Project Manager

Salary: £43,800-£50,000 per annum

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (Weekly attendance in Cambridge will be required)

Contract: x1 Full time, permanent, x 1 Full time, maternity cover until 17 March 26

Shaping the Future of Educational Excellence: We are looking to recruit two Senior Project Managers to play a key role in creating educational resources that make a real difference worldwide.

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 Project Manager, you will be at the forefront of delivering high-quality print and digital educational resources from concept to publication. Leading a talented sub-team of project managers, you will:

• Drive the planning and execution of product development, ensuring schedules, budgets, and quality targets are met.
• Collaborate across stakeholders and project teams, presenting robust delivery plans to senior leadership.
• Manage risks, oversee change processes, and lead communication strategies to keep projects aligned with strategic objectives.
• Guide the production phase, working closely with authors, suppliers, and endorsing bodies to meet stringent standards.
• Champion continuous improvement by reviewing workflows and implementing lessons learned
  
  

About You

You bring a wealth of experience in project and team management, coupled with a passion for delivering impactful educational solutions.

Key attributes include:

• Proven expertise in project planning, risk management, change management and supplier negotiation.
• Exceptional communication and facilitation skills and an ability to motivate teams through complex projects.
• A collaborative mindset, adept at uniting diverse stakeholders to achieve common goals.
• Familiarity with publishing processes and digital asset management, such as ePub, audio, and video.
• A track record of delivering within deadlines and budgets, with a keen eye for detail.
• Formal project management qualifications (e.g., PRINCE2, Agile) are a plus but not essential.
• Proven line management experience, including the ability to lead, mentor, and develop a team effectively
  
  

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 2nd February 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place w/c 10th February 2025.

If possible, please indicate which position/positions you are interested in your cover letter. Thank you.

Please note that we are unable to offer sponsorship for the fixed term, maternity cover vacancy.

Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

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.