Cancer Research UK

SENIOR INSIGHT MANAGER - PROPOSITIONS

Salary: £49,000 - £53,000 per annum pro rata

Reports to: Senior Manager - Consumer Insight and Experience

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement

Contract: 6 month fixed-term contract / internal secondment

Hours: 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London w/ high-flex (1 – 2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: Sunday 22 June 2025, 23:55

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.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

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 innovative and ambitious, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Senior Insight Manager - Propositions. In this role, you’ll be responsible for overseeing the Consumer Insight and Experience (CIX) team’s insight into Cancer Research UK’s fundraising propositions. Managing one direct report, you’ll ensure that we deliver high-quality insight projects that influence decision making across the department.

What will I be doing?

• Leading on Consumer Insight and Experience activity for our fundraising proposition and product teams; identifying and aligning requests across product and marketing, facilitating prioritisation and managing workload
• Developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders, working closely with them to understand their insight requirements and ambitions, and providing guidance on the most appropriate insight projects or programmes of work to meet their goals
• Leading primary and secondary research projects, including commissioning market research agencies, managing project timelines and overseeing costs and data quality checks to ensure projects deliver robust and actionable research findings
• Keeping pace with new insight approaches and techniques, sharing knowledge with stakeholders and the wider Consumer Insight and Experience team to ensure that we have the most efficient and cost-effective solutions to insight challenges
• Driving collaboration by partnering closely with colleagues within Data, Insight and Performance, and Insight teams across CRUK to devise the optimal approach to solving insight challenges within your area
• Line managing one direct report, overseeing their projects to ensure that high standards of quality, accuracy and value for money are achieved.
• As a senior member of the Consumer Insight and Experience team you will be responsible for creating a positive culture which recognises success, develops and drives high performance and rewards results to retain talent within the team and wider function.

What are we looking for?

• Extensive experience of managing market research projects from inception to completion including writing briefs, managing agency procurement, ensuring clear objectives and producing actionable outputs
• Excellent knowledge of qualitative and quantitative research methods and significant experience of deploying appropriate methodologies to drive actionable insight
• Excellent project management and planning skills with ability to prioritise workload across multiple areas and manage ambiguity.
• Proven experience of agency management
• Collaborative working style with excellent stakeholder management skills, demonstrating the ability to engage, influence and negotiate at all levels winning support for ideas
• Experience of partnering with stakeholders to produce strategic insight plans
• Consumer focused and outward-looking, with a strategic and analytical mindset, good attention to detail and the ability to identify broad themes from data.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to communicate research effectively to colleagues of all levels in both formal and informal environments.
• Strong core market research skills including survey writing & discussion guide development, and relevant experience of data analysis (Excel) and data charting (PowerPoint)

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 believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

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; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

For more information on this career opportunity please visit our website or contact us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk.

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Please note that, internally, this role is known as Product and Marketing Insight Lead.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.