Director of Macmillan Professionals

Director of Macmillan Professionals 
Contract type: Permanent  
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours 
Location: Hybrid between home and our London office – at least once a month in the office, and other travel for conferences, meetings and events with UK-wide teams and stakeholders. We welcome applications from candidates based anywhere in the UK. 
Salary range: £110,000 - £118,000

Are you a visionary leader with deep credibility in the healthcare sector? Do you excel at building influential partnerships, leading complex matrix programmes and shaping workforce transformation at scale?  

We’re looking for a dynamic, experienced and inspiring Director of Macmillan Professionals to strengthen, grow and empower our iconic community of cancer care professionals across the UK.  

About us 

At Macmillan you'll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We're going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. 

Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.

About the role 

As Director of Macmillan Professionals, you will set the long-term vision for how this community of 11,000 health and care professionals will enable us to reach everyone living with cancer and transform cancer services. You will bring together cross-organisational programmes, partnerships and engagement strategies to strengthen and rapidly expand our Professional network, ensuring they have the support, tools and development opportunities needed to achieve system-wide impact. 

You will lead the design of a cutting-edge workforce development offer, forging powerful partnerships with learning, technology, academic and clinical experts. This leadership will shape how Macmillan Professionals collaborate, innovate and influence change to improve cancer outcomes and equity. 

This is a pivotal strategic leadership role which requires a strategic thinker who can operate confidently across health systems, build credible relationships with senior stakeholders, and lead multidisciplinary matrix teams to deliver change at scale.

Key responsibilities: 

• Shape the long‑term vision for Macmillan’s UK‑wide community of Macmillan Professionals, aligned to organisational strategy. 
• Lead the development of a sector‑leading workforce offer, and other professional development interventions, to support learning, collaboration and innovation. 
• Build and lead partnerships with external organisations—including learning & development partners, tech providers, academic institutions and professional bodies. 
• Provide thought leadership on workforce development, including around the UK‑wide ACCEND (Aspirant Cancer Career & Education Development) programme with NHS England. 
• Lead cross‑organisational matrix teams and engagement strategies to strengthen Macmillan’s partnership with Macmillan Professionals. 
• Work collaboratively with functions across Macmillan (clinical, learning & development, technology, systems change, comms, insight and others). 
• Act as a senior external spokesperson and representative with Macmillan Professionals and healthcare system leaders. 
• Provide strategic insight and briefings to the Executive Team, Board and wider organisation. 
• Lead the development of outcome‑led impact metrics for Macmillan Professional engagement. 
• Position Macmillan as a partner of choice across the cancer and healthcare ecosystem. 
• Lead organisational initiatives to strengthen culture, performance and continuous improvement. 
• Provide inclusive, inspirational leadership and line management, building empowered and high-performing teams. 

About you 

You’ll succeed in this role if you are a visionary, strategic and collaborative leader who can inspire teams, influence senior stakeholders and drive ambitious, system‑wide change that benefits people living with cancer. 

You will bring: 

• Significant experience leading large, complex, cross‑organisational programmes and matrix teams. 
• A strong track record of building and stewarding strategic networks or professional communities. 
• Deep understanding of the UK healthcare sector and healthcare workforce development. 
• Experience designing and implementing large‑scale workforce development programmes. 
• Expertise in creating innovative learning, development and engagement offers. 
• Demonstrable thought leadership in workforce development or public sector transformation. 
• Experience operating across all four nations within different system contexts. 
• Proven ability to lead multi‑disciplinary teams and drive high performance. 
• Strong partnership‑building skills across public, private and voluntary sectors. 
• Commitment to embedding equity, participation and insight‑driven decision making.  

In return, we offer a range of benefits including: 

• 25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days  
• Pension matched up to 7.5% 
• 120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications 
• Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm 
• Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much more 

Recruitment process 
 
Application deadline: 23:59 on Sunday 12th April 2026
1st stage interview dates: Online interviews will be held on the week commencing 27th April
2nd stage interview dates: Interviews will be held in person at our London office on the week commencing 4th May

To ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed. 

So we can support you to be at your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice and reasonable adjustments.  

We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.