Senior Project Manager - 4601

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Salary: £42,000 - £56,800
Location: Cambridge / Hybrid (arrangements negotiable)
Contract: Full Time/Fixed term (12 months)
Do you have experience in successful project management and implementing business change in a complex environment?
If so, we would like to hear from you as we are looking for a Senior Project Manager to deliver key projects for our internationally recognised product, The International English Language Testing System (IELTS).
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
Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world. From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.
We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs. By collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.
These are exciting times for the English Product Group as we look to implement a range of strategic initiatives, to develop our products and services to customers and to streamline our systems. To enable us to meet the ever-increasing demand, we are seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and dynamic Senior Project Manager, who will thrive in delivering in this changing environment and is motivated by providing excellent customer service. The role is situated within the Programmes & Business Analysis team in English and will be focused on delivering technology-related projects within IELTS.
You will be responsible for managing your projects and teams using both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. You will use good Project Portfolio Management (PPM) practice in the projects and business change activities you manage and for ensuring successful delivery within agreed scope, budget and timescales, including the setup and management of governance and escalation processes within existing frameworks.
This role requires the ability to engage and build excellent relationships with internal senior stakeholders and governance bodies across the business, as well as external stakeholders, suppliers, partners and customers, understand their strategic business drivers and requirements and ensure that their expectations are met.
About you
As our next Senior Project Manager, you will have a demonstrable track record of successful project management and implementing business change in a complex environment. You will have excellent relationship management, negotiation and communication skills and will be able to influence colleagues, suppliers and decision makers effectively. You will also be innovative and organised, and able to work to tight deadlines, together with the capacity to add value through dynamic collaboration, lateral thinking and creative problem solving.
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 Thursday 9th May 2024 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 13th May 2024.
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 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.
#LI-SP1
#J-18808-Ljbffr