Senior Performance Manager (Marketing Transformation)

This vacancy is with Cancer Research UK (CRUK).

Internally this role is known as Senior Performance Manager (Engage Transformation).

Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 plus benefits

Reports to: Head of Data Stratedgy and Delivery

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: 12 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week - flexible working options available such as compressed hours (9 days in 10)

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 28 September 2025 23:55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found. We strongly recommend applying early. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400.

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.

Recruitment process: Screening call, followed by competency-based interview via Teams.

Interview date: W/C 8th October for screenings, W/C 20th for interviews

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are looking for a Senior Performance Manager to join our Data, Insight and Performance team. The Data, Insights and Performance team collaborate across the Marketing, Fundraising & Events (MFE) directorate to provide expert data analytics and insight that supports decision-making across Cancer Research UK’s 30+ marketing and fundraising products (e.g. Race 4 Life, Weekly Lottery, Legacy Giving, Regular Giving etc).

We are seeking to bring in a Senior Performance manager to focus solely on our Engage Transformation Project (ETP) to join a team of 7 Performance Managers within the bigger group of mixed discipline data and insight professionals.

CRUK has a vision to beat cancer. To achieve our mission, we have created a long-term Engage Strategy and designed a bold transformation programme to harness data and digital marketing technology to deliver more relevant, trusted, and frictionless experiences for our audiences and drive contribution growth.

What will I be doing?

• Work collaboratively with key stakeholders (ETP Programme Director, Head of Business Transformation, Benefit Owners, Finance, and others) to evaluate benefit performance against the delivery plan. Lead quarterly reviews to assess progress, identify risks and issues, and ensure mitigations are aligned, monitored, and reported through programme governance.
• Embed the high-level benefits approach and establish robust project/lever-level reporting to ensure benefits are tracked effectively and inform governance decisions. Act as a critical friend in estimating the value of mitigations, ensuring prioritisation is based on sound assumptions.
• Lead benefit re-forecasting in response to programme changes and drive alignment across stakeholders. Coordinate with Finance to ensure consistency between the ETP benefits plan and CRUK’s financial planning cycles. Refresh benefit assumptions annually as part of the planning cycle.
• Work closely with the Data, Insight and Performance team and the Performance Management community to ensure a consistent, robust and independent view of benefit performance, leveraging their expertise to enhance analysis, reporting and decision-making.
• Contribute to the centralised performance hub to embed consistent standards, tools and processes that enable confident use of performance insights and build performance capability across teams by identifying data literacy needs and providing targeted support.

What are you looking for?

• Significant experience of financial and marketing performance measurement and evaluation
• Strategic and analytical thinker with the ability to connect performance back to strategy
• Proven track record of advising and enabling data driven decisions to drive improvements in organisational performance in line with strategic goals
• A confident and effective communicator with a proven ability to influence stakeholders at all levels of an organisation, including in difficult situations
• Ability to build collaborative relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels
• A natural self-starter with the ability to act with high autonomy and a flexible mindset to adapt to changing priorities
• Advanced knowledge of Excel (large data sets, pivot tables and charts)
• Knowledge and experience with PowerBI would be advantageous

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 embody these values and drive 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, we’d still love to hear from you.

What will I gain?

We offer a working environment that supports wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, opportunities for career and personal development, and high-quality tools to improve work-life balance and wellbeing.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; however, we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Please complete the work history section of the online application form for fair assessment.

Owing to the nature of this position, any offer of employment will be subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check. (To be included if applicable)

For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk. For updates on our work and careers, follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels they belong, benefits from and participates in our work. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, particularly from under-represented ethnic minority groups.

Please inform us of any adjustments you may need to enable you to perform at your best during the application and interview process. Contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 0 20 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

We are unable to recruit anyone below 18 years of age.