Commissioning Editor Full Time

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA)
Commissioning Editor Job Title: Commissioning Editor (Resources, Training, Digital Services) Salary: £32,100 – £41,700 Location: Cambridge / Coventry, Hybrid Contract: Permanent, Full-time We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. Do you want to make a difference by helping teachers prepare their students for assessment? Are you a creative, customer-focused, and collaborative Commissioning Editor 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. 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. A bit 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 your potential? Apply now. We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 8 January 2023. Please note due to the Christmas holiday period interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 16th January 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. Commissioning Editor