Technology Product Lead, Cancer Research
Martech
£68-75k
More information about location
1-2 days a week in office (Stratford, London)
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
Open for applications
Cancer prevention, awareness and research charity
1001+ employees
Open for applications
£68-75k
More information about location
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
- An experienced Technology Product Leader with experience in shaping culture, building teams, and leading through change in large organisations. The leadership behaviours we’re looking for are:
- Emotional intelligence, resilience, and empathy
- An inclusive approach to leading and developing digital professionals (this includes supporting career progression, skills development, and leadership coaching)
- Previous experience managing Martech products from within a technology department with an understanding of technical information security architecture, available technologies, and current trends (not from a user/ marketing department)
- Has balanced user needs, strategic and technical requirements, and operational demand in large, complex organisations with constrained resources
- Demonstrable understanding of outcome-led decision-making and related ways of working
- Managed and selected marketing technology suppliers
- Managed budgets with a focus on affordability and effective ways of working (including external suppliers)
- Strong influencing and relationship-building skills:
- The ability to persuade and negotiate with stakeholders of all levels, having communicated methodologies and projects to a diverse, non-expert audience who may be sceptical of a user-first or agile approach
- Effective at collaborating and forming relationships across boundaries and locations
- Implemented robust information security and data protection controls
What the job involves
- 2 year fixed-term contract
- Our Martech portfolio has an extensive technological estate consisting of a range of products used by our Marketing and Supporter Engagement departments (e.g. , Adobe Campaign, Infobip, Taxi for Email, Contentful, Bynder, Graphify, Optimizely, Jotform, and many more)
- We are searching for a Technology Product Lead to play a pivotal role in leading and managing the digital and data-led transformation of this estate
- Your impact will be to help us get the most out of our current estate while shaping and defining the future and long-term product needs of our Martech products
- This will involve delivering a multi-stage transformation programme to build our product foundations and shape our new strategy before implementing it
- You will help ensure that Cancer Research UK has the right culture, skills, and processes for successful delivery and transformation, while fully owning the strategy and budget for our Martech estate
- This is a newly created role for you to shape, meaning you’ll have the opportunity to drive how we deliver this change and its scope
- By the end of the programme, your impact will be to have partnered closely with senior stakeholders across the organisation and helped deliver the largest programme of change in the history of the UK charity sector
- If you are an experienced Product Technology Leader looking for a purpose-driven and autonomous role, we’d love for you to join our mission
- Leading and motivating your teams, defining culture, acting as a role model, and setting high professional standards for performance and behaviour
- Leading the implementation of Cancer Research UK’s marketing technology transformation. This involves:
- Setting a vision, strategy, and plan that is strategically aligned, technically viable, and widely understood
- Defining and ensuring high-quality and fast-paced delivery of product outcomes across our marketing technology transformation
- Ensuring Cancer Research UK has the right balance of internal capability and external support (e.g., developing culture, coaching and line management, supplier selection and management)
- Managing and being accountable for the Martech budget (this includes leading planning processes)
- Influencing others effectively (including at a senior level) and building internal networks for collaboration and knowledge sharing across the organisation
- Collaborating with others to ensure that our Martech products are appropriately supported, adhere to SLAs and other operational requirements, and minimise performance risks
- Ensuring Cancer Research UK’s equality and diversity policies are appropriately embedded in all your work
- Ensuring adherence to all relevant governance across our Martech estate
- Reports to: Head of Product Portfolio (Marketing & Engagement)
Application process
- End Date: January 16, 2025
- This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment
- Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews
- Interview date: From the week commencing 20 January 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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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 values
- 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
Company HQ
Stratford, London, UK
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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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