18 collaborating disciplines. 1.4 million pages built. Millions of fundraisers, inspired.
Product Marketing Senior Executive (Events & Sports)
Salary: £32,000 - £36,000 benefits
Contract length: Permanent
Hours: Full time 35 hours per week
Location: Stratford, London .Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Closing date: 2nd November 2025, 23:55
Join Us in Beating Cancer Sooner
At Cancer Research UK, we’re united by one powerful purpose: to beat cancer. Every day, our passionate professionals push boundaries to save lives. But we know we must go further, faster. That’s where you come in.
We’re looking for a Senior Product Marketing Executive to join our Events & Sports Marketing Team, predominantly working on Race for Life, one of our most successful campaigns. You’ll be someone creative, driven, and ready to grow. If you’re eager to make a real difference and develop your marketing expertise in a purpose-led organisation, this is your opportunity.
Your Impact
As a Senior Product Marketing Executive, you’ll play a key role in shaping and delivering marketing campaigns that drive engagement and income across our Fundraising & Marketing teams. Working closely with the Product Marketing Manager, you’ll help bring our products to life — from concept to campaign delivery — ensuring they resonate with our audiences and exceed expectations.
What You’ll Be Doing
Audience & Market Insight: Conduct internal and external analysis to identify target audiences and shape product offerings.
Campaign Planning: Translate marketing strategies into integrated, cross-channel briefs and collaborate with agencies and internal teams to bring them to life.
Digital & Data Activation: Lead on campaign setup across digital channels, including our website, working with teams like Data Selections, Adobe, and Web Analytics.
Creative Development: Manage content and creative production across channels, ensuring assets are compelling and on-brand.
Testing & Optimisation: Partner with UX experts to run pre-launch tests and use insights to refine campaigns.
Campaign Management: Oversee campaign setup, delivery and analysis across various channels, including email, SMS, mailing and paid media activity
Performance Analysis: Lead in-campaign reporting and post-campaign reviews, sharing insights and recommendations to improve future performance.
Finance: Manage financial tasks, including raising POs and monthly receipting
What We’re Looking For
Proven experience delivering multi-channel campaigns from planning to analysis.
Strong understanding of end-to-end supporter journeys and the role of different channels in fully integrated campaigns.
Skilled in managing internal stakeholders and agency relationships to drive maximum value.
Confident in developing effective campaign assets across platforms.
A collaborative team player with excellent relationship-building skills.
Data-driven with a good understanding of UX principles and experience of interpreting results and recommending opportunities for optimisation.
Experience of managing own workload, meeting deadlines and effectively handling changing priorities.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination
Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism
Human: Act to have a positive impact on people
Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively
We’re looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you.
What will I gain?
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.
You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.
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 fully complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you quickly, fairly, and objectively.
Additional information
For more information about working with us please visit our website or contact us at [email protected].
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There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.
We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented, and believe that a diverse workforce will help us to beat cancer sooner.
If you’re interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we’d still love to hear from you. We don’t expect everyone to meet all of the criteria listed.
We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen by emailing us at [email protected].
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.
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What We Do
Cancer Research UK is the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research, influence and information. Nearly one in two of us will get cancer in our lifetime, but we’re finding new ways to outsmart it, so that more people can live longer, better lives free from the fear of cancer.
We carry out scientific research to help prevent, diagnose and treat cancer and our groundbreaking work, funded almost entirely by the general public, will ensure that millions more people survive.
Together we are beating cancer.
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