
Relationship Lead
- Salary From:£33,500
- Salary To:£36,500
- Region:England
- Location:Home based (UK)
- Advertised Job Category:Partnerships
- Department:Professional Engagement
- Job type:Permanent
- Closing Date:15 February 2026
Relationship Lead x4
Contract type: Permanent
Full time: 34.5 hours, we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours
Salary Range: £33,500 - £36,500. Please note that we typically offer at the start of the range, unless candidates demonstrate exceptional skills and experience.
Location: Home-based, with approx. 1 day of travel per week. Candidates must be based within one of the following areas:
- Greater Manchester boundary
- Lancashire or South Cumbria
- Surrey or Sussex
- Somerset, Wiltshire, Avon or Gloucestershire
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
In this rewarding role you’ll support delivery of our Professional Engagement plan so Macmillan Professionals are supported to ensure they have the right tools, skills, support and resources to deliver high-quality personalised care experiences for people living with cancer.
You will support, lead and deliver defined parts of the Professional Engagement plan, including events, partner engagement activities, conferences and delivery of professional resources and webinars.
Having an oversight of a large group of professionals, it will be important to prioritise and plan your workload, working to targets and objectives to deliver agreed outcomes.
You will use your data management, analysis, and reporting skills to help demonstrate the impact of our professional engagement work and team.
Relationship building and management is key to this role. You will support Macmillan Professionals with all of their needs, while also developing new relationships with the wider workforce and work collaboratively with the senior leadership team, your other team colleagues, external partners, and other key stakeholders, to deliver local priorities and ultimately deliver the absolute best person-centred care for people living with cancer.
About you
The successful candidate will demonstrate the following skills and experience:
- Experience in developing and nurturing key relationships with stakeholders and teams
- Experience in data analysis and developing/producing reports to demonstrate impact
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly organised and able to manage multiple tasks simultaneously
- Proficient IT skills particularly Microsoft Office, Excel and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Systems
Please note: Although this role is home-based, regular travel is required to support events and attend team meetings in the geographical area allocated. Therefore, candidates must be based in one of the areas listed in the 'Location' section above.
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 15th February
Interview dates: Virtual interviews will take place on 23rd and 24th February
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.
If you would like to discuss your application or anything further in regards to a career at Macmillan Cancer Support please email us at TATeam@macmillan.org.uk.
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