Head of National Partnerships

Head of National Partnerships 
Permanent 
Full time (34.5 hours)  
Hybrid between home and our London Office  
£68,000 - £76,000

About the role  

To design and mobilise a national partnerships programme that delivers new and innovative multi-sectoral transformational partnerships and at-scale changes to tackle some of the biggest challenges facing people with cancer. 

Key Responsibilities  

• Establish a new national partnerships function at Macmillan to lay the groundwork for Macmillan to revolutionise how we partner to achieve impact. 

• Work collaboratively with teams across Macmillan to establish an organisation-wide integrated approach and framework to how we identify and respond to strategic, national partnership opportunities.   

• Work collaboratively to identify early opportunities to take us from strategy to action, building a pipeline to grow new activities and partnerships.  

• Position Macmillan as a partner of choice across the cancer care and wider healthcare ecosystem. 

• Develop Macmillan’s capabilities in national partnership, building and developing the skills and capabilities of team members and wider colleagues across the organisation through training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities. 

• Develop, test and implement Macmillan’s governance for transformational partnerships, identifying how we form, work within, around or with partners, assess success, evolve and exit partnerships. 

About you  

The successful candidate for this role will have: 

• Track record in designing and mobilising a partnerships function or portfolio at deliver at scale national changes and systemic impact. 

• Visionary leadership that inspires and motivates partners towards collective action. 

• Proven expertise in systems thinking, understanding how various elements within the healthcare system interact and affect one another, one another, and applying that to the development of partnership propositions. 

• Experience in encouraging and implementing innovative approaches and solutions to address complex challenges. 

• Adaptability and flexibility to changing environments, policies, and emerging needs 

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: 7th May 2025

Interviews: W/C 12th May 2025

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 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.