Lead Product Owner

Job Title: Lead Product Owner

Salary: £66,100 - £88,500

Location: Cambridge UK, hybrid

Contract: Fixed term until June 2025. Full time, 35 hours per week.

A challenging and rewarding role, driving and owning a portfolio of platforms to deliver end-to-end online learning offerings for B2B and B2C customers.

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

About the role

The Lead Product Owner role is responsible for the management of our new and evolving portfolio of platforms that are supporting our Cambridge Online Education business stream:

• Cambridge Advance Online course marketing website – where B2C and B2B customers can browse and consider courses.
• University of Cambridge Online checkout journey – where B2C and B2B customers can pay and enrol to courses.
• B2B client portal – where B2B customers can manage their orders and get status updates on course completion.
• Learning management system – where learners take their courses.

Within this remit the role requires you to have the ability to engage with senior stakeholders, come up with a product vision and strategy, size and shape opportunities, balance business requirements with customer needs, is critical to the success of this role.

Managing a small team of Product Owners, you will orchestrate requirements gathering, prioritisation and road mapping. Through close collaboration with UX researchers and designers you will advocate for users and customers.

As our products and platforms are evolving you will partner with our Technology colleagues to shape, optimise, grow and deliver them while working with partners within the University to shape and develop new initiatives.

 About you

• You are experienced in working in senior product management and/or Product Ownership roles and can confidently lead initiatives and products through various lifecycle stages from opportunity evaluation all the way through to design, delivery and ongoing optimisation.
• A creative problem solver, you think outside of the box and can resolve conflicts and (business and/or customer) problems independently.
• You feel comfortable and confident being ultimately responsible for the Cambridge Online Education portfolio of platforms and see change and challenge as opportunities rather than impediments.
• Adept with agile, customer centric and global working environments, you have excellent communication, collaboration and leadership skills.

 If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

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 7^th April and interviews are scheduled to take place on 17^th & 18^th April 2024.

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.

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