Health Marketing Manager, Cancer Research
£39-45k
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£39-45k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you
- Significant experience of translating marketing strategy into tactical delivery plans by channel, audience and budget
- Significant experience of planning and delivering multi-channel campaigns that meet campaign KPIs
- Strong understanding of end-to-end consumer journeys and the role of different channels in fully integrated campaigns
- Relevant experience of managing and motivating agencies to drive maximum value from relationships
- Commercially aware with relevant budget management experience
- Data-driven with a strong understanding of UX principles and relevant experience of interpreting results and recommending opportunities for optimisation
- Proven ability to develop positive working relationships and influence others at all levels
- Relevant experience of developing highly effective campaign assets for use across channels
- Excellent project management skills including resource and risk management
What the job involves
- Reports to: Senior Marketing Manager - Health
- Hours: 35 hours per week (we are open to compressed hours)
- Contract type: 12 month fixed-term contract
- We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Health Marketing Manager
- We need you to support the Senior Manager to develop the health marketing strategy, plan and budget to achieve the relevant objectives and targets as agreed with Policy, Information and Communications (PI&C) and Marketing Fundraising and Engagement (MFE) and manage the delivery of the health marketing plan
- Supporting the Senior Manager to translate the Marketing Fundraising & Engagement (MFE) / Policy Information and Communications (PI&C) operating plans and budget into a health marketing plan and budget
- Managing the development and delivery of cross-channel integrated briefs
- Managing the content and creative production, testing and optimisation process, ensuring campaign assets are fully aligned with Brand messaging
- Managing the approval process ensuring all health content is evidence based and in line with PI&C messaging frameworks
- Working in partnership with local and national external stakeholders on campaigns, maintaining strong relationships to ensure success of joint marketing activity
- Managing the pre-launch user testing process and overseeing the implementation of campaign optimisation initiatives
- Managing the planning, set-up, delivery and analysis of integrated multi-channel campaigns that meet and exceed specific product KPIs
- Working alongside the Senior Manager to motivate the Senior Executives and matrix manage specialist Digital Marketing & Delivery teams to deliver activity across channels
- Working with digital and data experts from across marketing and the wider organisation to improve communications and better engage our audiences
- Managing the implementation of cross-organisational strategic projects that support the wider aims of Cancer Research UK’s marketing function
- Managing the continuous testing and analysis of campaigns, spotting opportunities to optimise ongoing activity and make recommendations to improve the effectiveness of future campaigns
Application process
- Closing date: Thursday 18 September 2025, 23:55
- CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview
Our take
The world’s largest independent cancer research charity, Cancer Research UK (CRUK) was founded from a merger between the Cancer Research Campaign and the Cancer Research Fund in 2002. CRC and ICRF had been longstanding pinnacles of the British medical institution, their work dating back to 1902 and 1923 respectively, and the merger signalled a strong step forward for UK medical institutes’ global influence.
A multi-armed charity, CRUK uses both grant-funded researchers and its own employed staff to research the treatments and causes of cancer, whilst its striking advertising and marketing campaigns are responsible for influencing public policy on the causes, prevention, and treatment of the disease. An example of a significant public campaign was Stoptober, which appeared to have triggered a third of a million smokers at the time to try quit tobacco throughout the month of October.
Alongside its pharmaceutical efforts, in 2023 CRUK funded clinical trials for the first-ever proton beam therapy for breast cancer, indicating a focus on technological innovations in the fight against cancer. On this subject, CRUK has also taken part in a billion-pound investment in the Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute that is aiming to make England an international leader in the industry.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Health & Wellbeing - Health and wellbeing are important to us. We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it. We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- Our occupational health and mental wellbeing support are accompanied by online health assessment tools, Our confidential employee assistance programme is available to all to provide support for any concerns in your work or personal life for ongoing everyday support or free counselling if you need it
- We also have a team of Mental Health First Aiders supporting across the organisation
- UK-wide savings - Our staff have access to a wide range of discounts, benefits and cashback deals to support you with your financial wellbeing, through our Rewards platform. We offer an online savings and discounts portal covering many widely recognised retailers and brands from electronics, groceries, home and leisure, holidays and more
- Cancer Research UK staff can take advantage of savings through a cycle to work scheme, or an interest free loan to help spread the cost of travel season tickets. Staff also enjoy great benefits in and around our head office in Stratford, London with deals at local shops, bars and restaurants
- Income Protection and Life Assurance - We provide all staff with free insurance policies, paying 50% of your salary if you are unable to work through illness, and up to 4 times your salary for your beneficiaries should the unthinkable happen and you die while in our employment
- Flexible Working - We want our people to have time away from work to support their different commitments, needs and interests. We encourage a flexible working culture, including options such as home-working, reduced or flexi-hours, job shares, job-splits, compressed and core hours
- We offer a high level of flexibility for the vast majority of our office-based roles, meaning that you’ll only be required to work from a specific location for 1 or 2 days a week on average
- Annual Leave - For the majority of our roles we offer 25 days holiday a year plus bank holidays, and an extra day for Christmas Eve. You can choose to use the religious bank holidays flexibly. On top of this, you can choose to buy up to 1 week’s additional holiday each year
Leadership
Previously Non-Executive Director of NHS England for 4 years, and Chief Executive of the MS Society for 5 years.
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