Job Title: Senior Brand Communications Executive
Salary: £35,200 - £45,700 per annum
Location: Cambridge, UK/ – Hybrid
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment (until 16 April 2027)
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
Are you a creative communicator with a passion for brand storytelling and impactful campaigns? Do you want to help shape how Cambridge University Press engages partners, authors, editors and the research community?
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Join our Academic Marketing department as a Senior Brand Communications Executive and play a key role in championing our brand, advancing our open research mission, and delivering inspiring, multi‑channel communications that elevate our global reputation.
About The Role
As a Senior Brand Communications Executive, you will plan, create and deliver compelling communications across a diverse portfolio of initiatives, products and services. This includes producing engaging content across our brand channels: social platforms, video, webinars, podcasts and new stories.
You will work on high-impact brand campaigns that support our transition to open research as well as executing communication to our journal publishing partners and external editors.
This role collaborates closely with multiple stakeholders within the Academic team (e.g. editorial, marketing, sales) and the wider organisation.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
Delivering effective communications for open research to build our position and reputation.
Planning and executing communications for a range of products, platforms and services.
Producing guides, resources and updates for partners, editors and key stakeholders.
Leading on campaigns for industry events, awareness days and festivals
Using social media, video, podcasts and other channels to enhance brand visibility.
Monitoring communication and campaign performance using analytics tools and reporting on KPIs and outcomes.
Managing relationships with agencies, external stakeholders and authors
Supporting brand governance by providing guidance on best practice branding.
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 proactive communicator with creativity, strategic thinking and a passion for elevating brand presence in the academic and research space. You bring experience planning and delivering campaigns, managing stakeholders, and producing high-impact content across multiple channels. To succeed in this role, you will need to demonstrate the following minimum essential requirements:
Relevant marketing and/or communications experience delivering multichannel campaigns and new projects.
Experience in digital marketing, including Google Analytics, SEO and social media tools.
Excellent communication and presentation skills, with strong copywriting and editing ability.
Strong analytic and creative skills, paired with the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.
Experience managing budgets.
Confidence engaging stakeholders and collaborating across multiple teams.
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 developing content for academic audiences (e.g., authors, editors, partners).
Familiarity with open research, scholarly publishing or STEM communications.
Experience managing freelancers, agencies or external suppliers.
Ability to use customer insights to inform communication planning.
Confidence representing an organisation externally at meetings, conferences or industry events.
Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
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 the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable, 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.
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
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
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 8 March 2025. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place week commencing 16 March 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
First stage in-person interview at our Cambridge office. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by email in advance of your interview.
Final stage interview: we may request a final virtual interview over MS Teams
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 will belong to a collaborative team that is 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 is 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.