Job Description

Salary: 29,700 - 38,550
Location: Cambridge
Country: UK
Business Unit: Academic
Vacancy Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 6 December 2025

Meet the recruiter

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Ashley De Los Reyes


leenarc.delosreyes@cambridge.org



Salary: 29,700 - 38,550



Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)



Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)





Are you a creative, collaborative, and experienced professional, working in marketing or a related field, with a passion for learning and education?



We're looking for a Marketing Executive in our Academic division to market textbooks and digital courses across various subject areas, supporting their adoption by higher education lecturers worldwide.



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

You'll report into the Global Marketing Manager, Higher Education, and will have the opportunity to make a real impact on the success of our products and services in an area of key focus for the company.



The role requires you to work closely with the Higher Education sales team, helping to contribute market expertise and coordinate marketing activities supporting adoptions of print and digital products globally. Your day-to-day role will be varied and includes the full marketing mix including social media, email campaigns, and creating multimedia promotional materials.



You will take a global lead on key titles within specific subjects and develop marketing content, plans, and resources for use by sales colleagues. Close collaboration with colleagues and authors around the world will be a central part of this role.

About you

You will have experience in a marketing and/or customer solutions role, looking to take the next step in your career.



You should have a solid understanding of marketing principles and be capable of implementing targeted and measurable marketing campaigns, from the planning and creative stages through to launch and reporting. Experience of using software and applications that support customer journey marketing, automation tools (such as AMPscript), e-commerce, analytics, and artificial intelligence is highly desirable.



We are looking for a confident communicator, capable of working effectively with numerous teams across the business including those based in international offices. You will have experience of working closely with colleagues in other departments to ensure effective collaboration on launch campaigns for key products or services.



You are analytical and solutions-oriented and understand the principles of market research to inform new product development. You are driven to put the needs of the customer at the heart of the business.



A commercial background and experience with Salesforce CRMs and digital products would be advantageous. You should be committed to working as part of a small and collaborative team and able to adapt to quickly evolving market requirements.



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

6

th

December 2025

. Interviews are scheduled to take place on week commencing

8

th

December 2025.

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


Please note, Cambridge University Press & Assessment is unable to sponsor this role under the Skilled Worker Visa route as it does not meet the minimum skill requirements.

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.