Product Manager - Professional Development

Cambridge University Press & Assessment; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 28 days

Private medical insurance

Permanent health insurance

Discretionary annual bonus

Group personal pension

Life assurance 4x salary

Green travel schemes

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment in Cambridge is recruiting a Senior Product Manager for the Professional Development portfolio. You will lead the vision and lifecycle of our professional development products, including qualifications, credit-bearing programmes and awards, to delight customers and sustain competitive advantage.

You will design and execute customer research, manage stakeholders, and work cross-functionally to deliver successful product launches while ensuring alignment

Qualifications

• Proven experience in product management within an educational context.
• Ability to design and develop professional development programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and development across a defined professional development portfolio.
• Design and deliver customer research to inform product decisions.
• Manage a range of professional development products to ensure success.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to deliver successful product launches.
• Ensure products remain competitive and aligned to curriculum needs.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Customer research

Cross-functional collaboration

Educational context

Job description

We are recruiting for an exciting role as a Senior Product Manager in the Professional Development team within Cambridge International. You will have a key role in ensuring that teachers are set up for success in their classroom through innovative, impactful and sustained professional learning opportunities. About the role The Senior Product Manager - Professional Development plays a key role to lead and drive the vision and management of our professional development products and services, specifically professional development qualifications, credit‑bearing programmes and awards. You will define the vision for designated professional development products, ensuring buy‑in from stakeholders and fit with overarching business, and deliver against this vision in ways that delight customers and sustain competitive advantage. You will manage all stages of the product lifecycle, from discovery to eventual retirement, working with a range of stakeholders across the business and externally to ensure product success against set metrics. To do this you will be responsible for developing product propositions, managing insights effectively whilst keeping key awareness of commercial and learning outcomes.

Key accountabilities

• Leading product strategy and development across a defined professional development portfolio
• Designing and delivering customer research to inform product decisions
• Managing a range of professional development products, utilising specialist teams within the business to ensure product success
• Collaborating cross‑functionally to deliver successful product launches
• Ensuring professional development products remain competitive, profitable, and aligned to curriculum needs

This role is based in our Cambridge headquarters and the postholder will be required to spend at least 40% of their time collaborating and connecting in‑person, in the office. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long‑term health condition.

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.

You will bring proven experience of product management within an educational context. You will have a track record of designing and developing successful professional development programmes and managing them from discovery to eventual retirement. You will demonstrate both strong commercial awareness and abilities in proposition development, insights gathering and interpretation, and programme and qualifications design. You will have knowledge, experience and interest in areas of direct relevance to the current and future needs of teachers and learners internationally, including but not limited to pedagogical methods; educational assessment; artificial intelligence and its classroom applications; and educational leadership. You will demonstrate an ability to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders understanding their needs and how they can inform successful product development and management.

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

Desirable criteria

• Demonstratable experience of design and/or management of professional development awards, qualifications or programmes. Transforming education begins with confident, knowledgeable and engaged teachers. Would you like to shape the future of professional development for teachers in an international context?
• We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world‑leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
• Final stage interview: in‑person at our offices in Cambridge. For this stage, you will be provided with a short task which you will present on the day (approximately 10 minutes). This will be supplemented by some additional questions related to your knowledge, skills and experiences related to the advertised role.

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. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. 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:

Benefits

• 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