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About the Role

As the new Marketing Manager for Assessment, you will play a key role in developing and delivering influencer marketing strategies for the Assessment Product Suite to drive usage and advocacy. This includes contributing to overall marketing strategy, planning, and execution, while taking the lead on specific tactics. Influencers will include teachers, agents, and key opinion leaders, and you will also support other projects within the Assessment area.

Your responsibilities will involve creating and implementing influencer marketing strategies aligned with global and regional sales goals. You will set clear priorities, develop evidence-based campaigns, and ensure timely, on-budget execution with measurable KPIs. Collaboration with sales teams, coaching regions on influencer initiatives, and sharing best practices will be essential. Additionally, you will support major projects such as the Oxford Placement Test migration and the launch of Oxford Placement Test 2.0.

We operate a hybrid working policy that requires a minimum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.  This is a 6 month fixed term contract covering maternity leave, with the possibility of an extension.

About You

Essential:

• Customer-focused, solution-focused, team player.
• Able to think creatively and demonstrate effective problem-solving skills.
• Able to synthesize data and information and use to inform marketing plans.
• Good communication skills.
• Comfortable with change and open to learning (ie CRM and automation).
• Ability to multi-task and comfortable managing/working across different project teams.
• Agility and demonstrate the capability to think ahead and plan proactively.
• Familiar with marketing fundamentals (use of data, KPIs, customer value proposition, customer journey).

Desirable:

• Previous experience in Assessment Marketing.
• CIM qualification.

Benefits

We care about work/life balance here at OUP. With this in mind we offer 25 days’ holiday that rises with service, plus bank holidays and Christmas closure (3-days) and a 35-hour working week. We are open to discussing flexibility in respect to working patterns, dependent on role. We also have a great variety of active employee networks and societies. 

We help make your money go further by contributing to your pension up to 12%, offering loans and savings schemes through our partnership with Salary Finance, in addition to travel to work schemes and access to a wide range of local discounts. 

This role comes with the added benefit of a discretionary annual payment.

Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.

Queries

Please contact grace.mcfadyen@oup.com with any queries relating to this role. 

We are committed to supporting diversity in our workforce, and ensuring an inclusive environment where all individuals can thrive. We seek to employ a workforce representative of the markets that we serve and encourage applications from all.

Secondments

When applying for a secondment, you must discuss the opportunity and gain approval with your line manager/department in advance of submitting an application.