Marketing Planning Executive

**MARKETING PLANNING EXECUTIVE
**Salary**:£27,000 - £28,500 per annum

**Reports to**:Senior Marketing Strategy & Planning Manager - Print and Direct Response

**Department**:Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

**Location**:Stratford w/ high-flex (1 - 2 days per week)

**Employment type**:12 month fixed-term contract

**Working hours**:35 hours per week

**Closing date**:Sunday 27 October 2024, 23:55

**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 passionate, someone like you.

We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Marketing Planning Executive. We need you to help coordinate, prioritise and plan marketing activities to all CRUK’s known audiences across our entire portfolio. You’ll work with internal teams to deliver core scheduling, calendar management & prioritisation alongside wider team administrative tasks.

Further to this, you’ll support the development of new ways of working and processes across owned channels as CRUK transitions to audience-led, data-driven marketing planning across its campaigns and activities.

**What will I be doing?**
- Delivering the monthly campaign planning process to known supporters and coordinating timely, effective delivery of marketing campaigns across the charity
- Taking ownership of the below-the-line campaign calendar, keeping teams informed of deadlines, ensuring campaigns submissions are made in a timely manner, communicating with internal delivery teams on scheduling and campaign movements
- Collating and co-ordinating marketing activity calendars & schematics to share across the organisation
- Acting as the key contact for all scheduling requests coming into the Marketing Planning team and delivering day-to-day tasks
- Supporting the development and management of key planning processes and procedures
- Supporting the Marketing Planning team through essential business and operational support, including taking minutes and chairing meetings
- Supporting the management, curation and evolution of CRUK’s social learning programme for CRUK marketers, creatives and communications community (CRUK Marketing Academy).

**What skills do I need to have?**
- Ability to prioritise, manage conflicting deadlines, working at pace to manage multiple tasks and deadlines
- High level of IT literacy, including good working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, especially Excel and PowerPoint
- Ability to build positive working relationships and collaborate effectively as part of a team
- Passionate about problem-solving, continuous learning and improvement to drive small and big change
- A data driven mindset with experience of analysing & interpreting results
- A passion for marketing with an interest in external trends and developments
- A flexible and adaptable approach.

**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 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?
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.