Propositions Excellence Manager Salary: £49,300 - £65,950 per annum Location: Cambridge, UK/Madrid, Spain Contract: Permanent, Full Time Are you ready to drive operational excellence and enable impactful business transformation? We have an exciting opportunity for a Propositions Excellence Manager to join the English Propositions Excellence team. 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 a Propositions Excellence Manager, you will play a key role in driving efficiencies and improvements across English Propositions, ensuring that our teams can work more effectively. You will work at the heart of business transformation, leading the implementation of change initiatives, embedding new processes, and ensuring that resources and tools are aligned to support our strategic goals. In this role, you will: Lead and manage change initiatives – ensuring new business strategies, tools, and capabilities are effectively implemented across Global Propositions. Drive operational efficiency – championing improvements in key business processes, resource management, and training to enhance team performance. Collaborate across teams – working with senior stakeholders, including Learning & Assessment Operations, Technology, and Commercial, to embed best practices and support transformation initiatives. Support strategic decision-making – analysing data, developing business cases, and making recommendations to leadership teams. Manage business-critical resources – coordinating training, development, and process documentation to ensure alignment with business needs. About you You are a strategic thinker with a passion for driving change and delivering process improvements. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are confident managing complex business transformation initiatives. You have experience in: Process management and change management – ensuring that business improvements are effectively implemented. Project and stakeholder management – collaborating with senior leaders and cross-functional teams to drive initiatives forward. Publishing and assessment processes – understanding the operational landscape of ELT, education, or assessment. Data-driven decision-making – using reporting tools and dashboards to measure the impact of change initiatives. Technology and automation – leveraging tools and new capabilities to improve efficiency. If you have a proactive, resourceful approach to problem-solving and enjoy working collaboratively to enable business excellence, we'd love to hear from you. 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 Please note our benefits will vary depending on location. 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 20th April 2025 although we may close it earlier if suitable candidates are identified. Interviews are scheduled to take place week commencing 28th April 2025. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for. 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