Job Description

Interim Implementation Executive

Salary: £28,800 - £37,425

Location: Cambridge- Triangle

Contract: Fixed term/ Secondment (6 to 12 months) – Full time

Are you a skilled project professional eager to drive meaningful change on a global scale?

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Pricing team as an Interim Implementation Executive supporting the delivery of a significant change project for the International Education business.

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

As an Interim Implementation Executive, you will drive support for the delivery and implementation of a significant change project for the International Education business in the Pricing team.

In doing so, you will be a collaborative link between the Business Owner, Director Business Development, the Senior Project & Change Manager and the Interim Pricing Manager to ensure key initiatives, recommendations and communications are delivered on behalf of the Pricing function. You will work with the Interim Pricing Manager to identify dependencies and impacts to the Pricing function on business-as-usual processes and ensure adaptations and processes are well integrated.

This will also be an opportunity for you to enable seamless communication and coordination between different key stakeholders across the project governance, regional team and Senior Management throughout the feasibility and delivery phase of this project.

If you're ready to become a champion for this impactful project and embrace an open culture to changes that may occur to the business to ensure the success of the project, then this role will be a good fit for you.

About you

You will be a highly organised problem solver with excellent communication skills and IT literacy. You will enjoy working autonomously or within a wider project team, successfully managing competing priorities and challenging timelines. You will be self-assured, persuasive, action-oriented, and creative. You will be familiar with working in an international context and are culturally sensitive with a customer-focused approach.

Key to success in this role will be a demonstrable track record of successful project management and of implementing business change. In addition, you will have excellent relationship management, negotiation and communication skills and will be able to influence colleagues and decision makers effectively of all levels.

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 (pro-rated)

* Discretionary annual bonus (pro-rated if employment is active upon awarding)

* 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 10 January 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place between the 22nd to the 31st January 2025.

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

Please note that Cambridge University Press & Assessment will not ordinarily be able to provide sponsorship for vacancies of less than 12-months in duration. Applicants must therefore have an existing right to work in the UK to be eligible for this position.

Why join us

Joining us is our 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