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Education changes lives forever. It broadens horizons, breaks down barriers, and fires imaginations. Like the University of Oxford of which we are a part, we are committed to uncompromising standards, freedom of expression, and the enrichment of lives through education. This is our motivation, our purpose, and our mission. It is why 100% of the money we make is reinvested into education and research. It is why we all care deeply about reaching more people, in more places, with world-class learning and research materials and services.
Our vast range of books, learning resources and educational support is developed by the brightest minds to inspire every learner to achieve their very best.
About the Role
This role is within the friendly and creative team international marketing team who work in close collaboration with colleagues across the world, and the international sales and editorial teams to support schools and booksellers in over 170 countries. To find out more, visit:
This post is particularly exciting as it provides the holder with the opportunity to learn about multiple markets across multiple countries. The post holder will develop, manage and implement the marketing strategy for key customer segments in order to increase brand awareness. This includes running thought-leadership campaigns across a variety of subjects, managing cross-departmental projects with various of stakeholders and organizing high-profile conferences. The post holder will be required to produce printed collateral, such as catalogues and conference stands, but it also focus on digital marketing, including email, social media, PPC and Google Analytics.
A typical day might include speaking to a colleague on Teams, writing a marketing campaign plan, monitoring budgets, holding a catch-up meeting with the marketing coordinator, briefing a designer on a catalogue and creating digital content for use on social media. No one day is ever the same!
This is a permanent full-time role, but we would welcome applications from those wishing to work 4 days per week.
We operate a hybrid working policy and expect this role to require a maximum of 2 days per week in the Oxford office.
About You
You will be a creative, customer-focused individual who learns quickly and has the ability to understand and respond to market need, driving the continual development of our marketing strategy globally.
The successful candidate will have:
Essential:
Strategic marketing experience at Campaign Manager or Marketing Executive level working across all channels
Stakeholder management skills
Excellent interpersonal, communication and team working skills
Experience of managing a budget
Ability to prioritise a heavy workload with maximum attention to detail
Good presentation skills
Creative problem-solving skills and an innovative approach
Experience of managing projects
Desirable:
Publishing or marketing qualifications (e.g. CIM)
Knowledge of the schools’ market
A willingness to undertake occasional travel
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 of working hours and the use of technology to support regular remote working, 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.
Please see our Rewards and Recognition page for more information.
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.
