Integrated Marketing Lead

£62,000 – £67,000 plus benefits

Reports to: Head of Brand & Marketing Planning

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: 12 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: 19th July 2026

Role Overview

We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Integrated Marketing Senior Manager/Lead to join Cancer Research UK’s Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement team. In this pivotal role, you’ll act as the senior interface with our media and creative agency partners, ensuring delivery that is on scope, on budget and to the high standards our brand demands. Working at the heart of a fast‑paced, collaborative environment, you’ll play a key role in shaping how we deliver campaigns that inspire action and drive impact. Every day will bring new challenges, from managing complex agency relationships to optimising performance across media and creative output. You’ll help ensure every pound spent delivers maximum impact for our cause.

What will I be doing?

• Owning the relationship with our media and creative agency partners, ensuring work is delivered to scope, cost and quality expectations
• Managing annual scopes of work, challenging scope creep and maintaining clear accountability for what sits within agreed delivery
• Overseeing media and creative spend, maintaining a single source of truth and reconciling costs against approved scope
• Leading on agency performance, ensuring output meets agreed briefs, timelines and CRUK quality standards
• Acting as the senior operational contact for agency stakeholders, resolving issues and managing delivery risk across campaigns
• Building and embedding strong commercial governance, including cost tracking, audits and contract management frameworks

What are we looking for?

• Significant experience managing media and creative agencies within complex organisations, either client‑side or agency‑side
• Strong commercial acumen, with experience managing multi‑million‑pound budgets, scopes of work and cost frameworks
• Deep understanding of media planning, buying and creative production processes, including associated cost drivers
• Excellent analytical and numerical skills, with advanced Excel capability to track spend and analyse variance
• Ability to build and manage senior stakeholder relationships, influencing across internal teams and external partners
• Proven experience setting up and improving processes, combining strategic thinking with operational delivery

Benefits

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high‑quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work‑life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

Recruitment & Application

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; we will contact you for an interview after the shortlisting stage. If you require adjustments to the application process, please contact or 020 3469 8400. 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. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role; candidates must be eligible to work in the UK.