Job Title: Head of Business Performance
Salary: £60,400 - £80,800 (UK salary)
Location: Cambridge, UK or Madrid, Spain (depending on where you are located)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
We are looking for a senior leader to drive business and financial performance across English Propositions—ensuring our global teams are equipped, aligned and operating at their best. 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 Head of Business Performance, you will lead how performance is planned, managed and optimised across English Propositions. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you will oversee budgets, financial planning and reporting, ensuring Propositions is well positioned to deliver current priorities and future ambitions.
You will also shape workforce capability, business improvement and the use of insight. By strengthening learning, governance and performance frameworks, you’ll support sustainable change and embed data‑led decision making across teams.
You Will Be Responsible For
* Designing and evolving offshore and global resource models to meet changing business needs
* Setting and delivering a professional learning and development strategy aligned to organisational priorities
* Improving data quality, dashboards and governance to support better decision making
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40‑60% of their time collaborating and connecting face‑to‑face at their dedicated location. 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.
About You
You are a commercially aware, strategically minded leader with a strong track record of driving performance in complex, global organisations. You are comfortable operating across multiple domains and bring clarity, structure and momentum to everything you lead.
You know how to turn data into insight, plans into action, and strategy into measurable outcomes. You are confident influencing senior stakeholders and equally effective at building high‑performing teams.
You Will Bring
* Proven experience managing budgets, financial planning cycles and performance reporting
* Strong experience of resource planning and workforce strategy
* Track record of leading business change and driving business performance
* Ability to use data and dashboards to inform decision making
* Experience influencing senior stakeholders in a global, matrixed environment
* Excellent communication and leadership skills
Requirements
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:
* Experience in education, publishing, assessment or a related sector
* Experience building or scaling offshore teams
* Experience developing learning and development strategies
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 × annual salary
* Green travel schemes
Ready to pursue your potential?
The closing date for all applications will 13th May 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing 1st June 2026.
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.
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.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
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