Publisher

• Salary: £45,100 - £60,400
• Location: Cambridge
• Country: UK
• Business Unit: Academic
• Vacancy Type: Permanent
• Closing Date: 21 November 2025

Meet the recruiter Stephanie Pass stephanie.pass@cambridge.org
Salary: £45,100 - £60,400 Location: Cambridge/Hybrid (2 days per week in the office minimum) Contract: Permanent/Full Time (35 hours per week)
We have an excellent opportunity for an experienced academic publisher to take responsibility for a highly impactful portfolio of humanities and social science journals. Through the careful management, stewardship and strategic development of your list, you will play a key role in delivering Cambridge University Press and Assessment's mission to support the global dissemination of the highest quality academic research. 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 You will have independent responsibility for managing a list of Cambridge journals, making strategic recommendations for their future at an exciting time in the evolution of open research and the integration of AI into journals publishing. This role will involve:

• Overseeing the day-to-day management of your journals in collaboration with internal colleagues, external society partners and academic editors.
• Ensuring internal and external teams uphold Cambridge's rigorous standards for journal peer review, content quality and publishing ethics.
• Using a thorough awareness of industry trends and active engagement with research communities to inform portfolio development and advise external stakeholders.
• Maximising the reputational and commercial success of the portfolio through sound recommendations for the future development of existing journals as well as proposals for new partnerships and new journal launches.
• As an experienced, senior member of the team, make a strong contribution to project work and strategic improvements impacting the whole journals list.

About you We are looking for an experienced individual who can hit the ground running, bringing demonstrable knowledge, creative energy and the proven capacity to provide reliable support to an important set of journals and associated relationships. You will need a deep understanding of the latest developments in the journals market to succeed in this role which has likely come from previous experience in academic publishing, ideally within a journals publishing environment. In addition:

• You will need to be a great communicator. Internal and external, written and verbal; able to build strong, productive relationships with a broad spectrum of academic stakeholders; able to convey complex messages clearly and concisely.
• You will need to have a proactive, solutions focused approach; able to manage competing priorities, make authoritative decisions and take accountability for the contribution of your titles to the team's broader strategy.
• You will need commercial acumen; able to make robust financial recommendations, based on a combination of qualitative and quantitative factors influencing each journal's value and costs.

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 Friday November 21. Interviews are scheduled to take place between Tuesday November 23 and Friday November 28. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
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.