Strategic Partnerships Insight Manager

** Strategic Partnerships Insight Manager*
* ** Salary**:  £37,000 - £42,000 +  benefits
** Department:
** Research and Innovation    
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* Reports to:

** Head of Strategic Partnerships   
** Contract type/ hours**: 12-month Fixed term contract, full time 35 hours per week   
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* Location:

** Stratford, London (High flex – we’d expect you to be in the office 1 to 2 days a week)   
** Final date to receive applications:
** Friday 23rd October 2026   
** Recruitment Process:
** Competency based interview process via MS Teams with a presentation task.

** Interview Date:
** Approximately w/c 2nd or w/c 9th November  
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* Please note:

You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
**** At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer
** Are you passionate about advancing world-leading cancer research through strategic collaboration? We're looking for a highly organised and analytical
** Strategic Partnerships Insight Manager
** to join our team on a 12-month fixed-term contract.  In this pivotal role, you'll help shape and support partnerships with leading medical research charities, government funders and other non-commercial research organisations. Working closely with senior stakeholders, you'll provide the insight, planning and operational support needed to deliver our ambitious research partnerships strategy.
You'll lead portfolio planning and reporting, identify and assess new partnership opportunities, manage key processes and governance activities, and ensure the team has access to the latest intelligence on the evolving research funding landscape both in the UK and internationally.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with experience in medical research funding who enjoys combining strategic thinking with operational excellence. If you're naturally curious, passionate about building relationships, and thrive on turning complex information into actionable insight, we'd love to hear from you.
** What will you be doing?**
* ** Strategic partnerships portfolio planning and reporting:
*** Work with the team to set ambitious objectives and KPIs at the start of each year, taking responsibility for tracking and reporting on progress against these.
* Prepare bespoke reports and presentations for senior leadership on the charity's partnerships portfolio, tailoring these to specific stakeholders as appropriate.
* ** Provide operational and project management support to the Strategic Partnerships team across a number of areas including:
*** Planning agendas and papers for key internal and external meetings
* Building strong relationships with key internal stakeholders and looking for opportunities to raise the profile of the team internally and externally
* Supporting on the development and tracking of relationship building and management strategies including annual review of key relationships and contacts
* ** Ensure that the team has the operational processes and policies in place to successfully deliver against its priorities**:
For example, owning the team’s due diligence process for assessing new opportunities and ensuring ways of working are compliant with wider organizational policies.
* ** Insight/Intelligence gathering and knowledge management to support the identification of new partnership opportunities:
** Maintain an awareness of the competitive and collaborative non-commercial research funding partnership landscape, including major sector trends and activities. Share regular updates with the team and wider organisation as appropriate.  Use this information to identify new partnership opportunities, working with the head and senior managers to prepare engagement strategies and briefing notes.
** What skills are we looking for?*
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