Product Marketing Manager - 5832

Cambridge University Press; Cambridge; Hybrid; GBP 43,000 - 55,000

Job description

Job Title: Product Marketing Manager

Salary: £43,800 - £55,000 per annum

Location: Cambridge, UK/Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week in the office

Contract: Permanent, full time – 35 hours per week

Cambridge Online Education is seeking a commercially driven and strategically minded Product Marketing Manager to lead our growing Course Marketing team, where you will shape and deliver compelling go-to-market strategies for a diverse portfolio of online professional education courses across Business to Business and Business to Consumer markets.

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

As a Product Marketing Manager, you will focus on positioning, messaging, value proposition development, and go-to-market strategy.

You will work in close partnership with our Propositions (including Market Research) teams to leverage insight and research to shape course offerings that meet learner and market needs, and with our Commercial team to ensure alignment with sales goals and customer demand.

Responsibilities:

1. Leadership & Strategy: Lead a team of course and sector marketers and collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Propositions (including Market Research), and Digital Marketing to drive growth and learner impact. Foster strategic thinking to support professional development in go-to-market planning and value proposition design.
2. Product Marketing & Positioning: Develop differentiated product positioning and messaging frameworks, collaborate with the Propositions team to ensure market-fit and commercially viable course offerings, and translate course content into compelling learner-facing messaging.
3. Market Insight & Research Collaboration: Partner with the Market Research team to gather and apply market and customer insights, interpret data from research and competitor analysis, and maintain a strong pulse on market trends and emerging needs.

About you

You will have significant experience in product marketing, ideally within education, edtech, or digital learning environments, along with experience of working closely with propositions, commercial, and product teams to align on value messaging.

Your strong leadership and team management experience is key in this role, and you will have proven ability to craft and execute go-to-market strategies across diverse customer segments.

You will be data-literate and comfortable using insight to drive decisions, particularly in collaboration with a dedicated research function.

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.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 21st April 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 28th April 2025.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

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.

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 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.

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