Overview
This high impact role involves managing the end to end production of complex proposals, coordinating diverse internal and external contributors, and ensuring a clear, persuasive narrative that meets both technical and commercial requirements. You will work closely with senior stakeholders, regional teams, consultants, and shared services to support opportunity qualification, bid governance, and successful submissions that drive sustainable growth. As Bid Content Manager, you will lead the end to end production of high quality, compliant bids that support growth across the Partnership for Education. You will manage complex submission processes, ensuring deadlines, governance requirements, and quality standards are consistently met, while maintaining a clear, compelling "one voice" narrative throughout.
Responsibilities
* Working closely with senior stakeholders, technical experts, and commercial teams across Cambridge University Press & Assessment and the wider University of Cambridge
* Coordinate inputs and translate them into persuasive, strategically aligned proposals.
* Drive continuous improvement by developing standardised templates, content libraries, and AI-enabled tools to modernise bid operations, improve efficiency, and increase conversion rates across priority markets.
* 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.
* As a Bid Content Manager, you are an experienced bid professional/project manager with a strong track record of delivering compliant, high-impact submissions in complex and fast-paced environments. You bring excellent writing and content leadership skills, with the ability to shape detailed technical and academic material into clear, persuasive narratives tailored to donor and client requirements. Highly organised and confident working independently, you are comfortable managing multiple priorities, influencing senior stakeholders, and coordinating contributors across geographies. You combine commercial awareness with strong attention to detail and a proactive, solutions-focused mindset. Digitally confident, you are keen to explore AI, automation, and innovative approaches to improve quality and efficiency. Collaborative, culturally aware, and diplomatic, you thrive in values-driven organisations with a global outlook.
* 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:
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o An experienced bids professional with a strong track record of delivering compliant, high quality submissions in complex environments.
o An excellent writer and content lead, able to shape technical and academic inputs into clear, compelling, and persuasive narratives.
o Highly organised, detail oriented, and comfortable managing multiple bids with competing deadlines.
o Confident influencing senior stakeholders and coordinating contributors across regions and functions.
o Commercially aware, with experience supporting bid governance, qualification, and sign-off processes.
o Digitally confident, with a strong interest in AI, automation, and continuous improvement.
o Proactive, solutions focused, and able to work independently while collaborating effectively with others.
o Culturally aware and diplomatic, with experience working in international or cross cultural contexts.
About Cambridge University Press & Assessment
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment (CUPA), a world leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Role impact
This role is pivotal in strengthening our commercial capability by improving bid quality, increasing conversion rates, and modernising proposal processes to support our global mission of educational transformation.
Recruitment process
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
* First stage virtual interview via MS Teams.
* Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.
Adjustments and equal opportunity
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
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.
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
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