Senior Email & SMS Marketing Executive, Cancer Research
12 Month FTC
£36-40k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Be an early applicant
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£36-40k
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Relevant experience of delivering email and SMS marketing campaigns, from planning through to execution and analysis
- Experience of using Adobe Campaign or similar technology to deliver and automate campaigns, and knowledge of HTML
- Experience of planning personalised email and SMS journeys for different audience segments
- Passionate about digital marketing with a good knowledge of the latest trends
- Data-driven with an understanding of UX principles and experience of interpreting results and recommending opportunities for optimisation
- Experience of building positive working relationships and working effectively as part of a team
- Experience of managing own workload, meeting deadlines and effectively handling changing priorities
- Strong attention to detail
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, including Excel and PowerPoint
What the job involves
- Reports to: Email and SMS Marketing Manager
- Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract
- 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 determined, someone like you
- Due to an internal moves, we are looking for an experienced Email and SMS marketing professional, looking for their next challenge
- You’ll use your experience to broadcast email marketing campaigns using Adobe Campaign Manager, alongside providing support to marketers across the organisation to deliver their own email marketing campaigns using the tool
- This is an exciting opportunity to get to grips with a world-renowned multi-channel marketing platform
- Deliver email and SMS marketing campaign plans to time, budget and against agreed KPIs with the support of the Email & SMS Marketing Executives
- Plan and build automated workflows which effectively deliver against marketing plans, Audience & Product objectives, and place supporters at their heart
- Lead on the delivery of data and digital campaign set-up requirements that ensure optimal targeting and tracking in collaboration with Data Selections and Web Analyst experts
- Work with UX experts to devise pre-launch test and learn initiatives, using results to recommend areas for optimisation
- Be a channel expert for email and SMS delivery, maximising the potential of Adobe to execute timely, relevant and personalised communications that result in high levels of audience engagement
- Work collaboratively with other Digital Marketing & Delivery teams to execute campaigns effectively and efficiently, taking a holistic view of cross-channel activity
- Take a future-facing view of digital marketing trends and developments to ensure Cancer Research UK’s email and SMS communications stay ahead of the curve, making recommendations to automate to gain efficiencies
- Lead on in-campaign reporting and post-campaign analysis, sharing recommendations for optimisation and to improve the effectiveness of future campaigns with key stakeholders
- Mentor the Email & SMS Marketing Executives, guiding and upskilling them
- Work collaboratively with teams across Fundraising & Marketing to share learnings and best practice
Application process
- Closing date: 9 August 2026 23:55
- Recruitment process: Task and Competency based interview
- Interview date: W/C 17 August 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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