Senior Reporting & Performance Manager, Cancer Research
£63-69k
SQL
AWS
Python
Salesforce
Power BI
DAX
Snowflake
Sagemaker
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
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Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
HealthcarePersonal healthCharitySocial ImpactMedTech
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£63-69k
SQL
AWS
Python
Salesforce
Power BI
DAX
Snowflake
Sagemaker
Senior and Expert level
London
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
1001+ employees
HealthcarePersonal healthCharitySocial ImpactMedTech
Company mission
To prevent, control and cure cancer through ground-breaking research.
Role
Who you are
- Experienced Reporting & Performance Manager who has led a data reporting & visualisation function in a large, matrixed B2C marketing-led organisation with a digital-first approach
- Expertise in technical coding language and data visualisation tools (e.g. SQL, Python, Snowflake, Power BI, Databricks, GA) with experience implementing best practices, guidance, and standards
- Proven success in creating robust data pipelines and automated workflows for visualisations
- Strategic and audience-focused mindset with experience using statistical analysis to understand and drive value from consumer behaviour
- Experience doing this using analytical tools and techniques such as hypothesis testing, ANOVA, and regression analysis, etc., is desirable but not essential—we welcome applicants without this experience
- Solutions-driven and continuous improvement mindset with experience creating high-performing reporting and visualisation support and advancing an organisation’s data maturity to enable smarter decision-making and better user experiences
- Has successfully built credible and collaborative cross-functional stakeholder and senior leadership relationships. This includes:
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, influencing, and coaching skills
- A proven ability to challenge the status quo
- Excellent coaching skills with significant experience in managing, leading, training, and developing large reporting teams with a broad remit
- A resilient leader with experience driving change and leading and motivating teams and stakeholders in navigating ambiguity
What the job involves
- Reports to: Head of Data Science & Performance
- Contract: Permanent
- Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
- As a Senior Reporting & Performance Manager, you will help us achieve this mission to place data at the core of our decision-making process by leading our newly created Reporting & Performance team
- You’ll drive the organisation’s data maturity by building high-quality reporting and visualisation capabilities, creating a Centre of Excellence, and enabling stakeholders and senior leaders to access and apply insights that improve performance and supporter experience
- You’ll also oversee a large reporting function by ensuring work is prioritised and resourced effectively, mentoring the team to upskill their technical proficiency, and implementing industry best practices, methodologies, and tools across reporting processes
- This is an opportunity to join an organisation making a significant investment in data reporting, and to play a key role in the largest transformation programme in the history of the UK charity sector
- The strategic and technical leadership you provide, and the solutions you embed, will lay the foundations for Cancer Research UK’s data maturity and reporting capabilities, empowering our lifesaving work for years to come
- If you're a Reporting & Performance Manager with a track record of establishing robust reporting and visualisation processes, and leading stakeholders and large reporting teams within a B2C, marketing-led environment, we’d love for you to join our mission
- Establishing and leading Cancer Research UK’s newly formed Reporting & Performance team as part of our Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement (MFE) directorate. This will involve:
- Managing two separate reporting teams for Relationship Management (c.3 reports) and MFE (c.3 reports), as well as a Salesforce migration team (c.4 reports)
- Prioritising and delegating incoming work across the Reporting & Performance teams, ensuring optimal resource allocation, timely delivery against project timelines, and consistent, high-quality support to the business
- Building the organisation’s reporting and visualisation capabilities, driving data maturity to enhance both supporter and employee experiences through the strategic use of sophisticated reporting tools, visual storytelling, and actionable insights
- Creating a reporting and visualisations Centre of Excellence, ensuring high-quality and accurate dashboards are available for all stakeholders across MFE
- Providing strategic leadership and collaborating with stakeholders across MFE to:
- Translate highly complex data into compelling stories and dashboards to empower technical and non-technical stakeholders with the data they really need
- Identify how we maintain an optimal dashboard catalogue, ensuring data is easily accessible across the organisation
- Utilise multiple visualisation tools and methods to present ideas to a broad group of stakeholders
- Identify opportunities to utilise reporting and visualisations to enable innovation, improve performance, and unlock deeper insights to help accelerate our mission
- Providing technical leadership for the Visualisations team, mentoring and coaching them to:
- Develop high levels of proficiency in SQL, DAX & Power BI
- Upskill analytical and visualisation skillsets across the team
- Providing technical expertise and guidance across data migration initiatives and teams. This includes:
- Helping to ensure the successful CRM migration from Siebel to Salesforce, which goes live next year
- Gathering and executing the technical requirements for report migrations
- Leading and overseeing our reporting following the CRM data migration, ensuring reporting outputs are not only delivered accurately and on time, but also embedded into business processes and decision-making to drive performance
- Leading on cross-functional reporting and visualisation projects
- Establishing robust and efficient reporting and visualisation processes across the department and wider organisation
- Leveraging the latest trends, best practices, and analytical toolsets (such as Python, Snowflake, and AWS SageMaker) to deliver best-in-class analytics solutions to our stakeholders
- Embracing and embedding Agile ways of working across the team in alignment with our technology partners
Application process
- End Date: September 25, 2025
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 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.
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Led by a woman
9% employee growth in 12 months
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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
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
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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