Integrated Marketing Lead, Cancer Research
£62-67k
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Office located in Stratford, London
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£62-67k
More information about location
Office located in Stratford, London
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience managing media and creative agencies within complex organisations, either client-side or agency-side
- Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing multi-million-pound budgets, scopes of work and cost frameworks
- Deep understanding of media planning, buying and creative production processes, including associated cost drivers
- Excellent analytical and numerical skills, with advanced Excel capability to track spend and analyse variance
- Ability to build and manage senior stakeholder relationships, influencing across internal teams and external partners
- Proven experience setting up and improving processes, combining strategic thinking with operational delivery
What the job involves
- Reports to: Head of Brand & Marketing Planning
- Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
- We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Integrated Marketing Senior Manager/Lead to join Cancer Research UK’s Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement team. In this pivotal role, you’ll act as the senior interface with our media and creative agency partners, ensuring delivery that is on scope, on budget and to the high standards our brand demands
- Working at the heart of a fast-paced, collaborative environment, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we deliver campaigns that inspire action and drive impact. Every day will bring new challenges, from managing complex agency relationships to optimising performance across media and creative output
- You’ll be surrounded by people who are as dedicated to beating cancer as you are, and together, you’ll help ensure every pound spent delivers maximum impact for our cause
- Owning the relationship with our media and creative agency partners, ensuring work is delivered to scope, cost and quality expectations
- Managing annual scopes of work, challenging scope creep and maintaining clear accountability for what sits within agreed delivery
- Overseeing media and creative spend, maintaining a single source of truth and reconciling costs against approved scope
- Leading on agency performance, ensuring output meets agreed briefs, timelines and CRUK quality standards
- Acting as the senior operational contact for agency stakeholders, resolving issues and managing delivery risk across campaigns
- Building and embedding strong commercial governance, including cost tracking, audits and contract management frameworks
Application process
- Closing date: 19th July 2026
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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