Strategic Planner

Strategic Planner 

Hybrid - split between home and our London Office

Salary: £63,000 – £69,000 
Contract: Permanent 

About the role 

At Macmillan, we’re driven by a clear purpose: to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. Delivering on that purpose requires more than a strong strategy—it requires clear, aligned, and actionable plans. 

As a Strategic Planner, you’ll play a critical role in turning strategy into delivery. Sitting at the centre of our organisation, you’ll bring together plans, priorities, resources, and performance to create a coherent, organisation-wide view of how we deliver impact. You’ll enable smarter decisions, greater alignment, and more effective delivery across our transformation agenda. 

What you’ll be doing 

You’ll lead and continuously improve how we plan, track, and deliver against our strategic objectives—ensuring clarity, accountability, and agility across the organisation. 

Your key responsibilities will include: 

• Leading the annual and quarterly planning cycle, producing guidance, templates, and timelines to ensure a consistent and effective approach  

• Working across functions to identify risks, dependencies, and interdependencies, bringing these together into a single, coherent organisational plan  

• Owning and maintaining a clear accountability framework, ensuring alignment between plans, budgets, and performance measures  

• Partnering with the PMO to track progress against plans, identifying delays, risks, and opportunities to optimise sequencing and delivery  

• Producing high-quality reports aligned to KPIs, budget, and risk, supporting senior decision-making and prioritisation  

• Building strong relationships across teams to ensure alignment, clarity, and shared ownership of delivery  

• Driving a continuous improvement approach to planning, enabling flexibility and responsiveness as priorities evolve  

• Providing planning expertise and coaching to teams across the organisation  

Who we’re looking for 

You’ll be a strategic thinker with a strong operational grip—someone who can see the bigger picture while confidently managing detail and complexity. 

We’re particularly interested in candidates with: 

• Experience in organisational or cross-portfolio planning, programme coordination, or strategy implementation  

• A strong track record of working in complex, matrix environments, engaging effectively with senior stakeholders  

• Experience using coaching approaches to support and challenge teams, driving clarity and better decision-making  

• Excellent analytical and business skills, with the ability to connect strategy to delivery  

• Experience producing clear, concise reporting for senior audiences  

• The ability to adapt quickly, navigate ambiguity, and respond to changing priorities  

• A genuine passion for driving excellence and enabling change  

Who you’ll work with 

This role sits at the centre of the organisation, working closely with: 

• Strategic Change  

• Insight and Performance  

• Finance, Risk and Technology  

• Delivery teams including Engagement, Partnerships, and People & Culture  

What success looks like 

In this role, you’ll: 

• Deliver an agile, efficient planning process that evolves on a quarterly basis  

• Create a clear, joined-up strategy implementation plan aligned across directorates and budgets  

• Enable robust, timely reporting that drives effective decision-making at all levels  

• Strengthen organisational alignment, ensuring everyone is working towards shared priorities  

Why join Macmillan? 

This is an opportunity to shape how strategy becomes reality in a purpose-led organisation. Your work will directly enable us to deliver greater impact for people living with cancer—bringing clarity, focus, and alignment to everything we do. 

Recruitment Process 
Application deadline: 22nd May 2026
First interview dates: 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.