People Partner – Global Entity Management

Salary: £35,200 - £45,700

Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid

Contract:  Fixed Term or Secondment (18 months) 

Hours: Full-time – 35hrs p/w

As part of our Global Entity Management (GEMC) activity, we are strengthening how we establish, integrate and operate across countries ensuring that our people frameworks, policies and practices are consistent, compliant and scalable, while remaining grounded in local context. This is not just about delivering change. It is about building the foundations that enable our organisation to operate effectively across markets, now and over time.

This is an opportunity to play a hands-on role in delivering our Global Entity Management programme, helping shape how we operate across countries while supporting colleagues through change in a way that is compliant, practical and locally relevant.

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  

As a People Partner within GEMC, you will play a hands-on role in delivering and embedding people solutions that support how we operate globally. You will work closely with local teams, business leaders and specialist colleagues to ensure that people considerations are understood early and embedded through every stage of entity setup, change or integration.

You will bridge global intent and local reality, ensuring that people frameworks not only meet legal and organisational requirements, but can be adopted, supported and maintained in practice.  

Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include: 

• Supporting delivery of people aspects of entity set-up, integration or structural change
• Assessing current state and identifying gaps in policies, processes and employment arrangements
• Bringing local insight and context into global design decisions
• Supporting change impact assessments and advising the business on engagement and consultation approaches and supporting them through the engagement and consultation processes
• Developing clear communications, manager guidance and employee support materials
• Working with Reward, Policy, HR systems and external advisers to translate requirements into practical outputs
• Supporting implementation and ensuring effective handover into business-as-usual

This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at our Cambridge offices. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition. 

About You  
Experience of working in a People Partnering capacity, ideally across multiple countries or complex organisational environments. You are confident navigating change and translating complexity into practical action.

Additionally will bring:

• Experience supporting people-related change or implementation activity in a business partnering capacity
• Knowledge of employment practices and how they shape policy, documentation and engagement
• Strong stakeholder skills, with the ability to build trust across diverse groups
• Degree educated (relevant HR / People qualification), or equivalent level of relevant professional experience.
• Ability to interpret data, local insight and input from others to identify risks and solutions
• Clear communication skills, including translating complex topics into accessible messages
• Confidence working in a fast-moving, collaborative environment

It would be advantageous if you also have:

• Experience working across different country or cultural contexts in Business Partenting capacity including navigating differing local employment practices, stakeholder contexts and organisational needs.
• Experience supporting more complex or multi-country change activity where there are multiple stakeholders or competing requirements
• Experience working with external advisers or specialist teams to interpret requirements and translate them into practical outputs

For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.

We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.   

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  

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.  

We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 22 May 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place on/from week commencing 1 June 2026. 

If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect: 
 

First stage virtual interview via MS Teams. You will be provided with a brief to complete a role related task which will need to be returned by presented on the day of your interview. S