Job Description
Job Title: Head of Digital Publishing
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Salary: £68,000 - £80,000
Location: Cambridge (UK), hybrid, or remote
Contract: Fixed term contract for 12 months
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We have ambitious plans for the delivery of new product and services through new business models across our academic programme.
Would you relish the opportunity to shape our digital publishing product roadmap with senior stakeholders across the business?
Would you be excited to lead and empower a newly expanded digital publishing team and to establish new ways of working with other teams?
Are you passionate about the potential of digital provision to drive learning and research impacts?
If so, we would love to hear from you.
About the role
This role leads the Digital Publishing department of the Academic product group at Cambridge University Press & Assessment. The department's remit comprises two principal accountabilities: digital publishing product strategy and cross-functional operational management of digital publishing projects.
You will:
- surface new opportunities and drive prioritisation of digital publishing product and service experimentation and innovation in partnership with business stakeholders
- determine where we should focus digital development efforts across medium- and long-term horizons to ensure the competitive success of our research and Higher Education publishing products
- oversee a small operational team, which drives and aligns cross-functional change across platform products, publishing systems and workflows
- lead the new digital publishing team to deliver on team objectives
- actively support new governance structures and ways of working with allied teams to support digital publishing product pipeline and product optimisation
About you
You will have
- a track record of leading digital product strategy and successful product launches, ideally from within a broader academic context.
- a keen commercial awareness and ability to define and understand key performance indicators and to translate insights into commercial recommendations.
- experience of identifying and prioritising amongst strategic problems and opportunities to help the team to present compelling business cases.
- experience of project management and resource management to launch successfully the new operational wing in the team.
You will be an experienced leader with the confidence to take a new team through organisational change with appropriate personal development support and helping the team to establish new ways of working with allied teams who co-create and deliver new digital publishing product.
Your interpersonal skills will enable you to collaborate with numerous senior internal stakeholders across and beyond the Academic product group.
The ideal candidate will also bring experience of working with agile development teams and UXers.
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:
- Group personal pension scheme
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Green travel schemes
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work 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 31st March. Interviews will take place shortly thereafter.
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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.
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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