What you’ll be doing

• Lead the orchestration of creative and insight-driven integrated campaigns that deliver against clear objectives.
• Plan and coordinate activity across paid, owned and earned channels, ensuring a seamless and consistent campaign narrative.
• Lead matrix teams and bring together colleagues from across Macmillan to deliver impactful activity.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, providing trusted campaign and communications advice.
• Use audience insight, evaluation and learning to continually improve campaign effectiveness.
• Manage campaign budgets and resources effectively.
• Represent Communications, Brand & Content in organisation-wide projects and initiatives.
• Line manage and develop colleagues, creating an inclusive, supportive and high-performing environment.

What you’ll bring

We’re looking for an experienced campaigns or communications professional who can combine strategic thinking with excellent delivery and relationship-building skills.

You’ll have:

• Significant experience working in a senior campaigns role.
• Experience developing and delivering strategic, cross-channel campaigns, from planning and activation, through to evaluation.
• Strong experience leading matrix teams and bringing people together around a shared objective.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create and advise on high-quality communications.
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to provide constructive counsel to senior colleagues and leaders.
• A strong understanding of audience insight and how it can shape effective campaigns.
• Experience of managing budgets and delivering activity within agreed resources.
• The ability to work at pace, navigate complexity and make sound decisions in a changing environment.
• A commitment to inclusive leadership and experience of supporting and developing others.

You’ll be someone who is curious, collaborative and confident, able to bring people together, challenge constructively and turn insight and ideas into campaigns that have real impact.

Recruitment Process

Application deadline: 30th September
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.