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About the Role

Cancer Research UK is seeking a passionate and well-connected Talent and Influencer Senior Manager to lead a team of 3. This role involves cross-organizational collaboration with various directorates to plan and deliver impactful campaigns. The position requires building and maintaining strong relationships with high-profile talent and influencers to support successful campaign delivery, contributing millions to the charity.

Responsibilities

Lead the planning, development, and delivery of complex, high-profile talent and influencer campaigns and projects, ensuring high standards, timeliness, and achievement of objectives and KPIs.
Line manage, coach, and develop the Talent & Influencers team, setting clear objectives and fostering a high-performing, confident, and inclusive team.
Create engaging campaigns, projects, and propositions that highlight talent and influencers' passion for the Cancer Research UK cause.
Demonstrate a clear 'value exchange' for talent and influencers, showcasing impactful, high-profile campaigns across multiple channels.
Share expertise and coach the Talent & Influencers team to develop a high-performing, confident, and inclusive team.
Maintain an overview of all talent & influencer activity, analyzing opportunities, providing expert advice, and strategic direction.
Oversee effective planning, prioritization, and resourcing of team activities, aligning capacity with organizational priorities.
Drive efficiency and effectiveness through leading annual planning, prioritization, and reporting processes.
Monitor and track performance of talent & influencer activity, reporting on successes and learnings, and ensuring key deliverables and KPIs are set and measured.
Collaborate with senior stakeholders and teams across CRUK to manage competing priorities, resolve challenges, and ensure talent and influencer activity supports organizational objectives.
Attend industry events to liaise with talent & influencer supporters, requiring flexibility for unsociable hours (weekends and evenings) with lieu time applicable.

Requirements

Experienced campaign and people leader with strong influencing skills.
Ability to inspire trust and confidence in internal and external stakeholders and teams.
Ability to articulate Cancer Research UK’s cause, core purpose, and scale of ambition.
Ability to transform complex scientific research areas into engaging, user-friendly communication.
Strong track record of leading and delivering complex, high-profile campaigns and projects.
Experience managing multiple priorities and stakeholders to achieve clear outcomes and measurable results.
Proven experience in building strong relationships and working with senior contacts across the talent sector (talent, influencers, representatives).
Experience creating and executing high-profile, strategic campaigns with cut-through and visible results across various sectors (digital, TV, film, radio, fashion, beauty, business, politics).
Strong team player with a collaborative approach.
Commercial awareness: ability to identify and maximize opportunities for direct and indirect financial value to the charity.
Excellent written and oral communication and presentation skills.
Attention to detail.
Strong people management, leadership, and coaching skills.
Experience developing individuals and teams to deliver high performance.
Must be eligible to work in the UK.
Must be able to work unsociable hours (weekends and evenings) where required (lieu time applies).

Skills

Talent management
Influencer marketing
Campaign delivery
People leadership
Relationship management
Communication
Presentation skills
Coaching
Commercial awareness
Influencing skills

Location

Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Work Type

Full time
12 month fixed-term contract

Experience Level

Senior Manager

Salary/Compensations

£55,000 - £60,000

Benefits

Generous benefits package
Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
High-quality tools
Work-life balance policies and processes
Support for personal wellbeing goals

About the Company

Cancer Research UK exists to beat cancer.
Our organisation values are: 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 are 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.
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.

Equal Opportunity

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
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.
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.