Commissioning Editor (3770)

Commissioning Editor (3770) Cambridge, East of England, England

Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Full Time Cambridge, East of England, England 33300 - 43400 GBP ANNUAL Today
Job description

Salary: £33,300 - £43,400

Location: Cambridge / Coventry, Hybrid (regular visits to the office per week)

Contract: Full Time/Fixed term (18 months)

Do you want to make a difference by helping teachers prepare their students for assessment?

Are you creative, customer-focused, and collaborative?

Are you ready to step in and help us deliver our strategy for growth, by developing innovative new forms of support for our products?

Then this could be your next role… We have an exciting opportunity for a Commissioning Editor to join a passionate Commissioning team providing world class support to our millions of customers and qualifications around the world.

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

The Product Support Commissioning team at OCR plan and co-ordinate the support for our assessment products. It's our job to ensure that our customers have the support they need, when they need it. We are a tight-knit and forward-thinking team, who enjoy working collaboratively and sharing ideas.

As Commissioning Editor, you'll be an integral part of the team. You'll have responsibility for scoping, developing, and briefing new kinds of product support, and will work with colleagues across the organisation to identify the best way to meet our customer needs. You'll work on our support proposition for several key products in the OCR portfolio.

You'll ensure that our decision-making is driven by customer insight. Through ongoing insight work you'll maintain a strong awareness of key trends and developing needs, both across our entire market and in key subject areas. You'll be involved in major pieces of market research and lead specific market testing of new types of support to ensure they deliver what our customers need.

This role offers great flexibility for growth & development, as well as the opportunity to make a significant, positive contribution to OCR's fast-developing support offer. If you don't want to miss out, please take a look at the job description attached at the end of the advert. We want to hear from you.

About you

To be successful, you will demonstrate:

  • Experience of resource development for education (in a publishing or teaching context).
  • Market research, analysis, and strategic thinking skills.
  • The ability to build and develop strong working relationships with stakeholders of all levels of seniority.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication, presentation and influencing skills.
  • Strong organisational skills to plan and manage a range of complex tasks, functions and schedules.
  • The capacity to balance, prioritise, and manage a varied and demanding workload.

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 Permanent 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.

Ready to pursue potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Sunday 17th September 2023 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 25th September 2023.

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.

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Commissioning Editor (3770)
Cambridge University Press & Assessment

http://www.cambridge.org
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Peter Phillips
Unknown / Non-Applicable
5001 to 10000 Employees
Non-profit Organisation
Education Support & Training Services
Education
1858
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