Programme Manager

• Salary:

Competitive (Spain) |£45,100 - £60,400 (UK)
- Location:

Cambridge, Madrid
- Country:

Spain, UK
- Business Unit:

English
- Vacancy Type:

Permanent
- Closing Date:

5 December 2025

Marco Rhobenn Caspillan

Salary: £45,100 - £60,400

Location: Cambridge, UK; Madrid, Spain - Hybrid [hybrid – 2 days per week in office]

Contract: Permanent, Full time (35 Hours per week)

Are you interested in managing a variety of complex business change, digital and English publishing programmes? If so, this role may be for you

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge. We are seeking an experienced Programme Manager to join us on a fixed term basis to lead large-scale digital, business change, and English publishing programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to make a strategic impact, ensuring programmes align with our mission and deliver value across the organisation.

About the role

As Programme Managers, we bring teams together to work towards our strategic purpose, managing and adapting to change while encouraging and empowering others to do the same. We remain commercially focused by clear benefits, transforming uncertainty into ideas and outcomes that create lasting impact.

As a Programme Manager you will:

• Ensure the programmes are delivered to the agreed schedule, budget and scope, while delivering high quality outcomes and organisational benefits against the strategic aims of the business.
• Work closely with the Programme Executive, Programme Sponsor and Workstream Leads to plan and manage the implementation of these programmes, with particular focus on benefits, dependency and risk management.
• Be responsible for the high-level tracking, capturing and management of the overall budget, status, changes and risks while reporting these to the programme team and wider senior stakeholders.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, working openly and effectively across teams to achieve shared success.
• Drive actions and decisions aligned to the English and wider organisation's values, ensuring we contribute with purpose and integrity.

Want to learn more about this role? Please see the attached job description.

About you

To be a successful Programme Manager, you will be educated to a degree level or have relevant professional experience. You will have strong collaboration, negotiation and consensus building skills and have expertise in risk management and change control. Additional knowledge, experience and skills include:

• Experience of programme management for large complex programmes, multi-faceted business change and/ or technical development projects
• Experience working with technical teams with an understanding of the roles and responsibilities of agile development (scrum) teams.
• Knowledge of both Agile and waterfall methodologies
• Ability to motivate individuals, influence key stakeholders and build strong, effective alliances across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Excellent analysis, reporting and problem-solving skills.
• Self-motivated and able to achieve deadlines and work independently or as part of a team

Want to learn more about key knowledge, skills and experience for this role? Please see the attached job description.

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

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Friday, 5th December 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the w/c Monday, 8th December 2025.

We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, all applications must be submitted via our official online application form. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

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.