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About the Role
This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll act with ambition, courage and determination to bring clarity, rigour and operational excellence across financial, commercial and supplier management. Working collaboratively across Technology, programme leadership and corporate teams, you’ll remove barriers, improve processes and ensure investment is well managed helping accelerate progress towards our mission to beat cancer.
Responsibilities
- Lead financial management across a complex technology portfolio, including forecasting, budgeting and cost control
- Own supplier relationships and manage contracts end-to-end, ensuring value for money
- Partner with Finance, Procurement and Legal to deliver robust commercial governance
- Drive portfolio insight through financial analysis, risk management and scenario modelling
- Improve operational processes to reduce friction and increase clarity for delivery teams
- Support smaller cross-team initiatives and contribute to business cases and investment decisions
Requirements
- Proven experience managing financials, suppliers and contracts within large-scale technology environments
- Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, reporting and cost control
- Experience working effectively with Finance, Procurement and Legal teams
- Ability to embed and manage supplier relationship management approaches
- Strong organisational and orchestration skills across complex environments
- Clear communicator, able to present financial and commercial insights to a range of stakeholders
Location
- Stratford, London
Work Type
- Office-based with high flexibility (1–2 days per week in the office)
- Fixed term (12 months)
- 35 hours
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- £56,000 - £62,000 Per Annum
Benefits
- Generous benefits package
- Wide range of career and personal development opportunities
- High-quality tools
- Policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals
About the Company
- At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
- Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
- 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.
- There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK.
- Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do.
- We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.
- We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.
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 by emailing us at recruitment@cancer.org.uk.
- 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.