Head of Strategic Programmes - Cambridge, United Kingdom - Cambridge University Press & Assessment

Cambridge University Press & Assessment

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Cambridge, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Salary:
£54,700 - £67,00

Location:
Cambridge/Hybrid

Contract:
Fixed Term Contract 18 months

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation, and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

A fantastic leadership opportunity has arisen within the English Global Propositions Team to directly support the Director as Head of Strategic Programmes

Our mission is to contribute to society through the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence.

Which is why every year, we give vital support to millions of people in more than 170 countries around the world.

From teachers and learners to researchers and academics, we help to build confidence, unlock potential, and enable success. We give people the opportunity to show what they've learnt, we spread knowledge, spark enquiry, and aid understanding.

We achieve this by embracing change, and continuously focusing on our customers' needs.

And by collaborating, and carefully listening to our customers and to each other, we keep moving forward, keep innovating, and keep finding newer and better ways of doing things.

The Role

Working directly with the Global Propositions Director, English to ensure joined up delivery of key strategic change programmes, as Head of Strategic Programmes, you will lead on delivering the Propositions transformation plan including adoption of Product Lifecycle Management, Change Management (OD and ways of working) and troubleshooting and problem solving wherever required.

This role is critical to the roll out of Product Lifecycle Management across the English business and wider support teams (technology, operations).

This will involve leading and inspiring multi-disciplinary teams in adopting new ways of working to support the digital transformation of the English business.

This will also include supporting the rollout of the new Organisational Design and associated change programme. Taking a leading role in other change initiatives as required and ensuring co-ordination across Propositions and the wider business.

Key accountabilities include:
Discipline leadership of the change management initiatives to embed the Propositions Strategy into English, effectively embedding the transformation into sustainable new ways of working:

Leading, directing and inspiring cross-functional teams in implementing the Propositions strategy for English.
Translating strategy / complex ideas into execution initiatives and programme managing against key deliverables including leading on change / communications / training initiatives ensuring the right people get the right information at the right time, within Propositions and, where relevant, the wider business across both English and at Group level.
Acting as an escalation point for issue resolution, providing steer and direction.
Overseeing Change, Internal Communications & Engagement and Organisational Design and joining up the dependencies across change programmes.

About you

You will be an individual contributor with the ability to think strategically and influence effectively, but also be very prepared and able to roll up your sleeves to get the job done.

The role of Head of Strategic Programmes will support the Global Propositions Director in ensuring delivery of these key programmes:

Delivery of the Global Propositions new organisational design
Implementation and embedding of new ways of working, primarily Product Lifecycle Management this stretches across multiple teams (Propositions, Marketing, Sales, Technology, Operations)
Leading on the Comms and Engagement programme across the Propositions Division to support development of a high performing team

So above all you will need to be credible - a respected strategic thinker, extremely organised, display pragmatism in getting things done and able to build respect across the organisation at all levels.

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:

Group personal pension scheme
Discretionary annual bonus
Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
Green travel schemes
28 days annual leave plus bank holidays

We also offer flexible and hybrid working options from day one. We will consider any work arrangements if you wish to work flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

The key to our work is our colleagues, whose shared commitment enables us to have an ever-greater impact.

We are a united, vibrant, and respectful global community of people, and we ensure that every individual is recognised, listened to, and cared for.

And because our impact is amplified when our people are empowered, we give everyone the opportunity to devel