Senior Product Manager - Professional Development

Job Title:

Senior Product Manager
- Professional Development

Salary: £49,300 - £65,950

Location:

Cambridge/hybrid

Contract:

Permanent

Hours:

Full-time 35 hours per week

Transforming education begins with confident, knowledgeable and engaged teachers. Would you like to shape the future of professional development for teachers in an international context?

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

We are recruiting for an exciting role as a Senior Product Manager in the Professional Development team within Cambridge International. You will have a key role in ensuring that teachers are set up for success in their classroom through innovative, impactful and sustained professional learning opportunities.

The Senior Product Manager
- Professional Development plays a key role to lead and drive the vision and management of our professional development products and services, specifically professional development qualifications, credit-bearing programmes and awards.

You will define the vision for designated professional development products, ensuring buy in from stakeholders and fit with overarching business, and deliver against this vision in ways that delight customers and sustain competitive advantage.

You will manage all stages of the product lifecycle, from discovery to eventual retirement, working with a range of stakeholders across the business and externally to ensure product success against set metrics. To do this you will be responsible for developing product propositions, managing insights effectively whilst keeping key awareness of commercial and learning outcomes.

The key accountabilities include:

• Leading product strategy and development across a defined professional development portfolio
• Designing and delivering customer research to inform product decisions
• Managing a range of professional development products, utilising specialist teams within the business to ensure product success
• Collaborating cross-functionally to deliver successful product launches
• Ensuring professional development products remain competitive, profitable, and aligned to curriculum needs

This role is based in our Cambridge headquarters and the postholder will be required to spend at least 40% of their time collaborating and connecting in-person, in the office. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.

You will bring proven experience of product management within an educational context. You will have a track record of designing and developing successful professional development programmes and managing them from discovery to eventual retirement. You will demonstrate both strong commercial awareness and abilities in proposition development, insights gathering and interpretation, and programme and qualifications design.

You will have knowledge, experience and interest in areas of direct relevance to the current and future needs of teachers and learners internationally, including but not limited to pedagogical methods; educational assessment; artificial intelligence and its classroom applications; and educational leadership.

You will demonstrate an ability to work with a variety of internal and external stakeholders understanding their needs and how they can inform successful product development and management.

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

• Demonstratable experience of design and/or management of professional development awards, qualifications or programmes.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.

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