Marketing & Communications Director – 6281

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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.

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

• 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.

Rewards and 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 × annual salary
• Green travel schemes

Application Process

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 min informal conversation with our Managing Director and a Senior University stakeholder

Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

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, and actively seek to employ people from a wide range of different communities.