Job Description

We are recruiting an experienced Delivery Manager to join our global Infrastructure Team to manage infrastructure platforms and engineering projects.

Our Infrastructure team provides a wide range of technologies that are constantly evolving to meet the need of the organisation.

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

In this role you will be responsible for one or more Infrastructure Platforms and operate them as Products. The role will build strong and lasting relationships with customers/users of the Platform, key stakeholders, and use agile methodologies to deliver continuous change. You\'ll be instrumental in helping us move to a Product-centric delivery model for infrastructure services.

You will manage infrastructure engineering projects working with the team to deliver new technologies or improvements to existing technologies. Engineering Projects often involve significant complexity, impact, or costs and require good project management practices to ensure their success.

The key goals of this role are:

• Delivering infrastructure platforms service; in collaboration with the Operations teams, and change activities
• Delivery of infrastructure projects; for hosting, networks, and end user services technologies
• Leadership; building strong relationships with stakeholders, leading colleagues through matrix management

About you

You\'ll ideally have:

• Prior experience in a delivery manager, project manager, or scrum master role.
• An appreciation for infrastructure technologies which may help you get started but isn\'t essential.
• A willingness to learn, try new things and push your skills to bring the most benefit to the team.
• You should be open to and enjoy working in the most agile way possible with people from all over the world.
• You will be joining a diverse group of open-minded people; you will bring your own unique ideas and ways of solving problems to this team that will make it stronger and more productive in future.

Everything we do is to better support our colleagues in our pursuit of education, learning and research at the highest level of excellence. You will be a driving force for change, moving at pace, and encouraging us to make a real difference to those we serve.

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:

• Group personal pension scheme
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
• Private medical and Health Insurance
• Green travel schemes
• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

We will interview suitable candidates as and when they apply, and reserve the right to close the campaign early, so please do not delay putting your application in.

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 everyone has a voice, and where we learn continuously to improve together. Ensuring that everyone feels they belong is essential to who we are, and to the contribution we make to society and our planet.

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.

Cambridge University Press & Assessment