ABOUT YOU

We are looking for someone who has a foundation in the skills outlined in the section of the role profile labelled ‘To do this role, you will have…’, so please make sure you clearly demonstrate these in your application.

Unless specified, this does not have to be experience in a charity context – we are just looking for someone with this experience and a willingness to learn about our charity context and deliver work in line with Macmillan’s values. If you meet the criteria in the role profile we would love to hear from you!

• Marketing skills: A solid foundation of marketing or project management skills, developed in a professional setting
• Results-focus: Experience monitoring the performance or progress of a project against targets
• Analytical/Solution-focused: A proactive approach to identifying project blockers or underperformance and a collaborative approach to finding solutions
• Time management: Experience delivering work to set schedules and budgets
• Communication: An ability to communicate clearly with a range of different people, via email, telephone and in person
• Relationship management: An ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and external partners, which enable productive collaboration on projects

ABOUT THE ROLE

We’re looking for a Marketing Executive to join our fundraising marketing team to deliver sector-leading fundraising campaigns. Working collaboratively with fundraising marketing leadership, this person plays a key role in the delivery of marketing campaigns across a range of channels and products. Your work will be instrumental in raising money to ensure we can provide vital physical, emotional and financial support for people living with cancer.
As a team, we are responsible for the marketing and project management of several large-scale fundraising campaigns, including Macmillan’s Coffee Morning, Brave the Shave, Longest Day Golf Challenge, Go Sober and the Macmillan Lottery. In this role, you will be responsible for delivering a wide variety of campaigns, to ensure the team achieves its ambitious fundraising objectives. The role is a great opportunity to build on your existing marketing skills in a large charity context.

A typical week in this role might include:

• Delivering key campaign actions to agreed schedules. This could include writing a data, artwork or media briefs, circulating campaign materials for approval, completing data or artwork checks
• Leading a weekly call with an external agency partner, to agree key actions and keep a project on track
• Reviewing campaign performance, reporting internally and identifying optimisations, where appropriate
• Attending weekly catch ups with your project manager to discuss any campaign issues, blockers and to keep them updated on progress
• Preparing for and attending monthly development meeting with your manager

Unless specified, this does not have to be experience in a charity context – we are just looking for someone with this experience and a willingness to learn about our charity context and deliver work in line with Macmillan’s values. If you meet the criteria in the role profile we would love to hear from you!

• Marketing skills: A solid foundation of marketing or project management skills, developed in a professional setting
• Results-focus: Experience monitoring the performance or progress of a project against targets
• Analytical/Solution-focused: A proactive approach to identifying project blockers or underperformance and a collaborative approach to finding solutions
• Time management: Experience delivering work to set schedules and budgets
• Communication: An ability to communicate clearly with a range of different people, via email, telephone and in person
• Relationship management: An ability to build positive relationships with colleagues and external partners, which enable productive collaboration on project