Relationship Manager, Cancer Research
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Open for applications
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship
- Experience of working as part of a high performing team, achieving KPIs and targets
- Experience of working unsupervised with the ability to drive and generate own workload
- Excellent networking and relationship manager skills – and the ability to motivate and influence supporters or customers to reach targets
- Ability to adapt style and approach, generate new ideas and to acquire new business
- A strong solution focused approach to enable supporters to overcome challenges and maximise their fundraising
- Excellent communication and presentation skills (face to face, written and phone)
- Great time management, prioritisation and planning skills
- Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do
- Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
- Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
- Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
- Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
- We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer
- If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you
- Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks
What the job involves
- Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
- Reports to: Regional Team Manager
- Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
- Location: Home-based (London/Greater London/surrounding areas) The successful candidate must be located within the geographic area shown on the map below. Please click to view:
- We are looking for an ambitious, driven people person, passionate about raising vital funds to support Cancer Research UK
- As a Relationship Manager you will inspire and motivate a wide range of supporters (including individuals, groups, and corporate partners) to develop strong relationships, maximising in-year fundraising opportunities and long-term value
- We are looking for candidates from a business development or fundraising background who are excited to join our hard-working team in and around London/ Greater London and the surrounding areas
- We’re looking for a natural people person, with excellent relationship building skills, confident in negotiating with and influencing a diverse range of supporters
- You’ll be used to managing multiple priorities and be adaptable in an environment where no two days are the same
- If you’re proactive, people-centred, and motivated by making a real impact, we’d love to hear from you
- This is a home-based role with significant travel across the patch to maximise community engagement
- There will be some out of hours working required such as supporter meetings and events, however you will get this time back via our time off in lieu policy
- Inspiring, developing and managing supporters to achieve their goals through offering outstanding and tailored stewardship
- Developing a prospect pipeline of opportunities and identifying and cultivating leads. Acquiring new supporters and income in collaboration with the Business Development team
- Hitting fundraising targets and KPIs for CRUK's life saving research
- Supporting creation and delivery of relevant strategies that build better and longer lasting relationships to increase long-term income
- Building strong working relationships with wider department team colleagues to effectively develop transitioned supporters
Salary benchmarks
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 long-standing 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.
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Insights
9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
Leadership
Michelle is a Trustee at the Francis Crick Institute and an Advisory Council Member at The King's FUnd. Previously, she served as a Non-Executive Director at NHS England and as CEO at the MS Society.
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