Overview

Job Title: Marketing and Communications Director

Salary: £84,600 - £100,000

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid with UK and International travel as required

Contract: Full time, Permanent, 35 hours per week

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

Come and join Cambridge Online Education (COE) as we move from start up to scale up, supporting organisations and individuals to transform their workforce and careers for the future via our executive and professional education offering. This is a critical role in a dynamic and newly established COE senior leadership team to lead our marketing, communications and brand strategy to deliver on our exciting growth targets. COE works across the University of Cambridge to bring the very best in executive and professional online learning together in an ‘all-Cambridge' experience for industry clients and customers, centred around a market leading portfolio of online short courses.

About the role

You will lead the COE Marketing & Communication team into its next phase of growth, developing the team to be a high-functioning and impactful strategic partner to the business, while building strong relationships with senior stakeholders across the University - including marketing and commercial leaders of the executive and professional education community, and with central brand, communication, web, press and alumni teams, to go to market as ‘one-Cambridge'.

Core responsibilities are to:

• Design the marketing role and responsibilities, setting the team up for success to deliver on the next phase of COE business strategy.
• Develop and deliver the COE marketing strategy in line with the COE business strategy.
• Work with the renowned University of Cambridge brand, showcasing your communications expertise in thoughtful and creative ways to let the market know about one of the world's largest portfolios of executive and professional education and the University's point of view on the future of work.
• Bring your leading digital and web skills and latest thinking as the lead business owner for our web presence as we build our next generation website.
• Lead the team with a commercial mindset to pivot from single channel paid marketing to a multi-channel and content led approach, improving our CPA and bringing greater control and efficiencies to our marketing spend to deliver greater ROI as we scale our approach across commercial channels.
• Work with COE Commercial Director to establish a new B2B marketing and sales enablement approach for high-value, high-impact industry engagement, while also supporting the development of new commercial propositions and their launch to market.
• Work with COE Learning Propositions Director and team to craft compelling value propositions and take our sector and skill specific course portfolios to market in new and creative ways to reach our target audiences in an effective and informed approach.
• Work with COE Operations Director to optimise business and marketing intelligence and ensure end-to-end marketing process efficiencies

About you

You are an experienced and passionate people leader who is results-driven, creative and collaborative, and thrives in a fast-paced environment with a high degree of autonomy. Strategic, customer and market focused in everything you do, with exceptional communication, creative, brand, product and digital marketing skills, you are a confident and able networker with a strong ability to form trusted relationships.

Excited and motivated to lead a team on a new journey to drive new revenue, reach and impact in the executive and professional learning market, for a world-leading University, you are committed to working collaboratively across the Cambridge ecosystem to make this happen.

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.

Application and selection

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 26th October 2025.

Interview Process if successful at each stage:

Stage 1: 7th November via MS Teams

Stage 2: 19th-21st November face-to-face in Cambridge (may be asked to prepare a presentation in advance)

Stage 3: w/c 24th November- 30 minute informal conversation with our Managing Director and a Senior University stakeholder

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

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