Product Manager

Cambridge University Press & Assessment; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary annual bonus

Green travel schemes

Private medical insurance

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is seeking a Product Manager to lead product strategy across a portfolio of print and digital resources for international markets, collaborating with internal teams and external contributors.

You will translate customer insight into market-ready products, design research plans, build compelling business cases, and deliver successful launches while ensuring profitability and curriculum alignment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management or product development within publishing or content-led environment.
• Ability to translate customer insight into successful product outcomes.
• Strong capability in designing customer research plans and creating persuasive business cases.
• Excellent collaboration with internal teams and external contributors.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and development across a defined portfolio.
• Design and deliver customer research to inform product decisions.
• Build compelling business cases and product proposals.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver successful product launches.
• Ensure products remain competitive, profitable, and aligned to curriculum needs.

Skills

Product management

Product development

Customer research

Business cases

Proposal writing

Commercial awareness

Collaboration

Job description

As Product Manager, you will lead and implement product strategies across a portfolio, delivering high-quality print and digital resources that engage and inspire teachers and students in international markets. You will champion deep customer understanding, using research and insight to shape a pipeline of competitive, curriculum-aligned products and services that meet the evolving needs of international education. You will act as the lead advocate for key products, working collaboratively with internal teams across Products & Services, Global Marketing, and our International Network, as well as externally with teachers, consultants, and authors. The role requires strong commercial awareness and a genuine commitment to improving teaching outcomes and professional practice.

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:

• Leading product strategy and development across a defined portfolio
• Designing and delivering customer research to inform product decisions
• Building compelling business cases and product proposals
• Collaborating cross-functionally to deliver successful product launches
• Ensuring products remain competitive, profitable, and aligned to curriculum needs

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Flexible working arrangements are available from day one, including adjustments for disabilities or long-term health conditions.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.

Are you ready to make an impact in a role that supports meaningful outcomes and global learners? You will bring proven experience in product management or product development within a publishing or content-led environment, with the ability to translate customer insight into successful product outcomes. You will demonstrate:

• Experience working with authors, consultants, or external contributors
• Strong research capability, including designing and delivering customer insight plans
• Ability to create clear, persuasive proposals and business cases
• Commercial awareness and a focus on delivering impactful, customer-driven products

Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:

• Understanding of the international schools or education market
• Experience delivering both print and digital products
• A collaborative and adaptable approach, with a willingness to challenge and improve ways of working
• You will consistently demonstrate our values by working in ways that are collaborative, empowering, innovative, and responsible.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our team as a Product Manager, where you will help shape and deliver innovative, market-leading resources that support teachers and students globally. You will contribute to products that make a real difference in classrooms during a time of significant change and challenge in education.

• First stage: virtual interview via MS Teams.
• Second stage: In person at our office in Cambridge. You will be presented with a role related task to complete during your interview.

If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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.

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