Senior MFE Product Development Executive

SENIOR MFE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

Salary: Circa £30,000 per annum

Reports to: Senior MFE Product Development Manager

Department: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

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

Positions Available: 2

Employment Type: 1x Permanent role and 1x 12 month FTC

Working hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Closing date: Sunday 4 September 2022, 23:55

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we we’re looking for someone talented, someone innovative and ambitious, someone like you.

We need you to support the product development process of CRUK’s fundraising product strategy; gathering and understanding insight, developing new ideas, building them into propositions, and designing tests to show their viability in the market.

What will I be doing?

• Supporting the development and delivery of development projects according to product and portfolio priorities 

• Collaborating with the Insight team on projects and communicating relevant outputs to the wider product team, so our supporters remain at the heart of what we do 

• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders, both within the product & functional teams and also the wider product development community at CRUK

• Gathering analysis, research and insight to understand the product audiences and the marketplace 

• Working with colleagues to share insight across the department and the product development community 

• Planning and delivering product development projects to serve product audiences; recognising and exploiting opportunities for growth 

• Coordinating and managing projects relating to innovation or product development.

What skills are you looking for?

• Proven ability of project management, leading and engaging multiple stakeholders to help deliver 

• Proven ability to work well under pressure, with demonstrable strategic/innovative thinking skills 

• Problem solving skills. Ability to overcome issues, propose solutions and make sound commercial decisions 

• A deep curiosity, willingness to learn, and the ability to draw on an expansive frame of reference 

• A flexible approach to comfortably manage ambiguity and changing environments/contexts 

• Excellent relationship building/management skills, creating connections to make great things happen 

Please click here for a full candidate pack.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We review pay annually and aim to recognise individual performance and achievements. 

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work – from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy – will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won’t be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly and objectively.

At CRUK we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner. Unfortunately we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks. Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview (such as, but not limited to: information in a different format, more time for an assessment, a virtual/F2F interview) please contact us on [email protected].