Job Title: Project Manager

Salary: £34,500 - £44,850

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid (2 days per week in the office)

Contract: Fixed term (12 months), Full-time (35 hours per week)

We're seeking a Project Manager responsible for the planning and delivery of a diverse range of print and digital Learning Solution products. This role offers the opportunity to contribute to meaningful educational outcomes on a global scale, working within a fast-paced and innovative team that's passionate about making a difference

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

This role sits at the heart of our mission to unlock potential through learning. You'll collaborate with colleagues across our global branches, as well as with manufacturing, data, and permissions teams, to manage projects from initial planning through development, production, and publication. You'll be responsible for budget, schedule, risk, and change management throughout the product lifecycle, and for supplier coordination during production.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coordinate planning for adaptation projects, ensuring milestones are met ahead of investment approval.
• Build and manage project schedules, budgets, and risk logs from initiation to completion.
• Monitor project health and lead mitigation strategies to maintain delivery standards.
• Ensure accurate documentation, reporting, and formal project close-down processes are followed.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly motivated team tasked with driving projects forward and overcoming challenges to bring high-quality materials to market within budget and target sales windows.

About you

We are looking for a calm, confident and proactive individual who can collaborate well with project teams. You should be able to maintain a positive outlook while working on challenging projects. In this role, you will need to be highly organised, with excellent time and workload management skills. You should have proven planning and project management capabilities and be an effective communicator with experience in supplier and stakeholder management.

Experience in publishing production and editorial processes would be a plus. Formal project management qualifications (such as APM or PRINCE2), along with familiarity with tools like Smartsheet and Microsoft Teams, 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.

If you choose to apply, please include a short cover letter with your application, making sure you specify you are applying for a Project Manager position. We look forward to hearing from you.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

To maintain a fair recruitment process, applications will only be accepted via our online careers page. Applications emailed directly to the recruiter may not be received by the hiring team.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 15th of August. Interviews are scheduled to begin on 21st of August.

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 identityand 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.