Job Title: Bid Content Manager
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (at least 2-3 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time, 35 hours per week
We are seeking a Bid Content Manager to lead the development of high quality, compliant, and compelling bids across the Education Reform portfolio within our Partnership for Education team.
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.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
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.
About the role
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.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
* Working closely with senior stakeholders, technical experts, and commercial teams across Cambridge University Press & Assessment and the wider University of Cambridge
* youwill coordinate inputs and translate them into persuasive, strategically aligned proposals.
* Alongsidedelivery, you will drive continuous improvement by developing standardised templates, content libraries, and innovative AI enabled tools to modernise bid operations, improve efficiency, and increase conversion rates across priority markets.
About you
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:
* An experienced bids professional with a strong track record of delivering compliant, high quality submissions in complex environments.
* An excellent writer and content lead, able to shape technical and academic inputs into clear, compelling, and persuasive narratives.
* Highly organised, detail oriented, and comfortable managing multiple bids with competing deadlines.
* Confident influencing senior stakeholders and coordinating contributors across regions and functions.
* Commercially aware, with experience supporting bid governance, qualification, and sign‑off processes.
* Digitally confident, with a strong interest in AI, automation, and continuous improvement.
* Proactive, solutions focused, and able to work independently while collaborating effectively with others.
* Culturally aware and diplomatic, with experience working in international or cross cultural contexts.
Rewards and benefits
* 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
* Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
* Discretionary annual bonus
* Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
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 best meet them minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, we prioritise those who best meet them 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.
Successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
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