Senior Product Manager - Professional Development - 7601

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 49,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave

Private medical and PMI

Discretionary annual bonus

Group pension scheme

Life assurance 4x salary

Green travel schemes

Job summary

Cambridge University Press & Assessment seeks a Senior Product Manager for Professional Development in Cambridge. You will own the vision and management of professional development products, including qualifications, credit-bearing programmes and awards, driving value for teachers worldwide.

You will manage the full product lifecycle, develop propositions, gather insights and balance commercial and learning outcomes to sustain competitive advantage.

Qualifications

• Experience leading product management in an educational context.
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Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy and development across the professional development portfolio.
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Skills

Product management

Education sector experience

Commercial awareness

Proposition development

Insights gathering

Programme design

Job description

Job Title: Senior Product Manager - Professional Development

Salary: £49,300 - £65,950

Location: Cambridge/hybrid

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time 35 hours per week

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.

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.

The key accountabilities include:

• 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.

About You

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.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

Desirable criteria

• Demonstratable experience of design and/or management of professional development awards, qualifications or programmes.

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

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

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be Sunday, 18th October. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on week commencing 23rd October.

Interview stages

• First stage virtual interview via MS Teams: You will be asked a series of questions about your motivations for the role, and in relation to the criteria outlined in the job description
• Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge. For this stage, you will be provided with a short task which you can 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. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.

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.