Senior Strategic Storytelling Manager

Senior Strategic Storytelling Manager
Fixed Term Contract (12 months)  
Full time (34.5 hours)

Location: Split between home and our London Office 
Salary: £57,000 - £63,000 

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. 

Role purpose:

At Macmillan, stories are at the heart of how we inspire support, build understanding and show the real impact of our work. We’re looking for a Senior Strategic Storytelling Manager to lead our storytelling strategy and bring to life the experiences of people living with cancer in powerful, authentic and responsible ways. 

About the role: 

In this high impact role, you’ll lead the delivery of our new storytelling model — ensuring lived experience stories and strategic organisational narratives are integrated across Macmillan’s content, campaigns and communications. You’ll partner with teams across the organisation, manage our creative agency roster, and champion best in class storytelling that strengthens our brand, provides compelling evidence of the positive impact our new strategy is having on people with cancer and deepens emotional connection with our audiences. 

You’ll oversee the governance of lived experience storytelling, support colleagues to work confidently with thirdparty suppliers, and ensure our storyteller community is diverse, representative and engaged. You’ll also lead your team to produce compelling, reusable content that drives our organisational case for support. 

About you 

You’ll bring: 

• Significant experience leading creative or contentdriven projects 

• Strong understanding of the creative process and what agencies need from clients 

• Excellent people management skills, including experience leading matrix teams 

• Outstanding stakeholder, relationship building and influencing skills 

• A strategic, creative mindset with the ability to solve problems and drive improvement 

• Experience safeguarding storytellers and colleagues through clear boundaries and processes 

• Excellent organisational skills, attention to detail and confidence managing budgets 

What you’ll achieve 

• A robust, ambitious storyteller programme that delivers powerful, emotive content 

• A strong bank of strategic stories that bring Macmillan’s impact to life and drive support 

• A diverse, engaged and geographically dispersed storyteller community 

• Excellent relationships with suppliers and internal teams, driving best practice 

• Effective management of creative processes, governance and risks 

• High quality storytelling that strengthens Macmillan’s brand and deepens audience connection 

Recruitment Process 
Application deadline: Sun 15th Feb (23:59)
First interview dates:  End of Feb 2026 (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. 

We are an organisation that is committed to setting candidates up for success, so we can support you to be at your best during the application or selection process, please contact Macmillan TA Team TATeam@macmillan.org.uk for advice, or a conversation on 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.