Strategic Digital Change Lead, Cancer Research
12 Month FTC
£55-60k
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£55-60k
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Significant marketing leadership experience and strong knowledge of all types of marketing, but in particular digital marketing
- Strong project and strategy management experience
- Experienced change agent who has transformed digital marketing within an organisation
- Strategic thinker with significant experience of translating strategy into operational planning, and delivering multi-channel marketing campaigns with strong digital marketing acumen
- Significant understanding of end-to-end digital supporter journeys and the role of different digital marketing channels in fully integrated campaigns
- Ability to work cross functionally and build collaborative relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
What the job involves
- Reports to: Head of Digital
- Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
- Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract
- 35 hours per week
- This role is an exciting opportunity to take responsibility to accelerate digital marketing methodologies and make change happen at Cancer Research UK
- In this role you will lead on strategic digital change projects across marketing and the wider organisation that improve and optimise our digital marketing activity and support the shift to a centralised, audience-led, digital model for marketing
- You will work as an exceptional change agent, alongside senior leaders and teams in our Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement directorate (MFE), to understand how we can deliver digital marketing strategies better and more effectively
- This is an impactful role which will drive change across the whole portfolio – right from providing information on cancer, to engaging our supporter audiences
- You'll define and drive strategic digital marketing initiatives, partnering with key business partners and Tech to align marketing with digital best practices
- Act as digital marketing change lead in cross-organisational digital programmes, ensuring marketing is integrated effectively into broader transformation plans
- Lead change management initiatives linked to broader organisational goals, fostering new marketing model that prioritises personalisation, digital-first approaches, and supporter-centric strategies
- Evaluate, optimise and project manage delivery of digital marketing process and seek opportunities to increase efficiency and effectiveness
- Engage stakeholders, translating complex digital challenges into strategic action plans
Application process
- End Date: 30 June 2025 23:55
- We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview
- Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively
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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