Senior Marketing Planning Executive

£33,000-£37,000 plus benefits

Reports to: Marketing Planning Manager

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: 9 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 11th October 2026 23:55

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process:
One stage competency-based interview

Interview date: From Tuesday 20th October-Friday 23rd October

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

The Senior Marketing Planning Executive plays a key role in coordinating, prioritising and planning marketing activity across Cancer Research UK’s portfolio, ensuring communications to our known audiences are balanced, well-timed and deliver maximum impact.

Working within the Strategic Marketing Planning, Operations & Performance team, you’ll help drive audience-led, data-driven marketing planning, support the evolution of new processes and ways of working, and collaborate with teams across the organisation to ensure our marketing activity remains effective, efficient and future-focused.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about marketing planning, continuous improvement and using insight to help maximise engagement and growth.

• Support the delivery of CRUK’s cross-portfolio marketing plan, optimising activity across owned channels including email, SMS, telemarketing and direct mail.
• Work closely with marketing planning colleagues and delivery teams to manage, prioritise and improve visibility of marketing campaigns across known audiences and first‑party data.
• Drive improvements to planning, prioritisation and campaign clash management processes, helping to future‑prove CRUK’s marketing operations.
• Provide guidance and day‑to‑day support to a Marketing Planning Executive, helping develop capability and ensuring effective delivery of key planning activities.
• Maintain channel forecasts and planning calendars, ensuring activity is coordinated, visible and aligned to organisational priorities and growth objectives.
• Analyse channel performance and marketing insights, identifying opportunities to improve effectiveness, optimise plans and support continuous innovation across marketing communications.

• Experience planning and prioritising complex, multi‑channel marketing campaigns, ideally across email, SMS, direct mail and/or telemarketing.
• Understanding of end‑to‑end customer and supporter journeys and the role of different channels within integrated marketing campaigns.
• A data‑driven approach with experience interpreting performance data and making recommendations for optimisation and improved results.
• Strong project management, organisational and analytical skills, with the ability to manage competing priorities effectively.
• Excellent relationship‑building skills with experience collaborating across teams and influencing stakeholders.
• A proactive, curious and solutions‑focused mindset with a passion for continuous improvement, innovation and delivering positive change.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism

Human :
Act to have a positive impact on people

Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

Internal candidates should ideally have completed their 6-month ‘getting started’ period before…