Head of Strategic Engagement Planning

Head of Strategic Engagement Planning
Permanent 
Full time (34.5 hours) - we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Hybrid - Split between home and our London Office 
Salary Range £66000 - £74000

About the Role

We are looking for a talented marketing leader to head up our Strategic engagement Planning Team.

The role will be response for supporting the development our overarching marketing and engagement strategy. This will run across all our mass audiences, including people with cancer, fundraisers, campaigners and volunteers. The role will work with marketing colleagues across the directorate to ensure our activity is sequenced, planned and aligned to best meet objectives. It will include building marketing capability (especially digital), putting in place the processes and plans to enable us to succeed, measuring effectiveness and management of our relationship with our media partner.

It is incredibly exciting time to join Macmillan as we launch a new Charitable Strategy, and this role will be pivotal for ensuring its successful implementation.

About you: 

To be successful in this role you will have: 

• Strategic marketing/Engagement planning experience ideally across multiple channels and disciplines  

• Significant experience of briefing complex insight work and working with data and analytics to turn information into insight and insight into recommendations  

• Demonstrable experience building and managing relationships with a range of senior stakeholders, delivering exceptional communication throughout  

• Experience of leading complex strategic engagement/ marketing projects or activities  

• Experience leading a team  

• Experience of successfully working with and managing marketing partners and vendors.  

• Experience of developing and leading the implementation of a marketing and engagement strategy 
• Expert knowledge of the marketing landscape and trends, including fundraising regulation.  

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: 12th Jan 2025

Interviews: End of Jan 2025 (TBC)

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. 

Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to change the closing date of our vacancies. 

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.