Marketing Executive - 5313

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

12/11/2024

Job Title: Marketing Executive

Salary: £28,800 - £37,425 per annum

Location: Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract: Permanent/Full Time (35 hours per week)

We have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Executive to join our large, talented, creative Marketing team. You will oversee the planning, delivery and reporting on part of our prestigious Journals list.

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 be working with dedicated, supportive and friendly colleagues across many teams to create and deliver high-impact global marketing plans while providing an outstanding publishing service to our readers, authors and publishing partners.

Some key accountabilities will be, but not limited to:

• Planning and executing marketing campaigns to ensure products reach their target markets and sales targets are met. To include: email marketing, blog posts, social media, content marketing, brand marketing, advertising, print marketing and management (virtual and in-person) of stands at key conferences and society events.
• Collaboration with and delegation of tasks to our Marketing Services team as appropriate.
• Engaging in contact list-building campaigns to grow internal database of marketing contacts.
• Conduct close working relationships with commissioning Editorial teams in your subject areas, ensuring that there is strong and clear two-way communication about key products and marketing strategies and plans.
• Representation of the Press at external business meetings, academic conferences and industry events, providing a professional, customer-facing profile for the business.
  
  

About You

As our next Marketing Executive, you will have excellent organisational skills with the ability to prioritise workload and time when managing a large portfolio of Journals. You will have strong analytical skills along with creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.

In addition, to be successful in this role, you will:

• forge close working relationships with commissioning Editorial teams in your subject areas, ensuring that there is strong and clear two-way communication about key products and marketing strategies and plans.
• Have proven commercial awareness.
• Strong understanding on digital marketing and social media platforms.
  
  

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 Sunday 5th January 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place shortly after the closing date.

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.