Senior Strategy Manager

Senior Strategy Manager
12 months fixed term appointment
Full time (34.5 hours)
Location – Hybrid split between home and our London Office: 1 or 2 days in office per week
Salary Range: £62,000 - £68,000 per annum

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.

It is an incredibly exciting time to join Macmillan as we launch a new strategy, and this role will be pivotal for ensuring its successful implementation so we can achieve the best outcomes for people with cancer

About the role

The Senior Strategy Manager manages our strategy implementation roadmap, supporting teams to deliver the key pieces of work that will launch and embed our new strategy.  You will inherit a high-level roadmap, and your job is to turn that into a corporate plan and then work with key stakeholders across the organisation to oversee delivery.

The role will span the full range of strategy implementation and work with key teams across the organisation, as needed, to support the development of objectives, plans, projects, ways of working, measures, reporting, change, finance, and communications.

About you:

We’re looking for someone with the following skills and experience: 

• Experience of managing projects.
• Experience working in a matrix manner in complex organisations.
• A background in one of change, strategy, planning or finance.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, influencing stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership teams.
• Experience of managing complexity, navigating extensive stakeholder networks.
• Strong analytical and business skills, with the ability to think strategically and manage details.
• Experience of delivering transformational change initiatives.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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: This role will close at 11.59pm on 29th January 2025.

First round interviews will be held 5th and 6th February 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 that 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.