LEGACY PARTNERSHIPS MANAGER (WEST MIDLANDS AND WALES)
Salary: £35,000 - £38,000 per annum
Department: Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement
Reports to: Legacy Partnerships Team Leader
Location: Home-based/Field based covering the West Midlands and Wales. Candidates need to be based in either the West Midlands or Wales, or within 20 miles of patch due to business need.
Hours: 35 hours per week (we are open to Compressed Hours)
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 10 August 2025, 23:55
Please note: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
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’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join us as a Legacy Partnership Manager. This is a unique opportunity to develop, manage and grow Cancer Research UK's legacy relationships with high value solicitor partners. Our team works with around 800 offices across the UK, empowering legal professionals to speak about legacy giving and our life saving research.
This a
flexible home-based role, which will require travelling around your division meeting with legal professionals.
Whilst the majority of meetings (circa 60-70%) are held via Teams, there will be a requirement for the postholder to travel to meetings throughout Wales and the West Midlands where there is a business need.
What will I be doing?
- Identifying, developing, and managing relationships with solicitors and will writing firms.
- Being responsible for delivering a seamless end to end supporter journey for the professional audience, through outstanding relationship management
- Using data to make value insights about our partners performance, making recommendations for improvement and exploring opportunities for building and deepening partnerships
- Being responsible for delivering regional activity for Legal Professionals, including regular partnership review meetings and CPD events
- Supporting the wider team in the development of the Legacy Professional Partnership strategy.
What skills will I need?
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the ability to quickly get buy in and work collaboratively
- An ability to understand and translate data, and utilise it to make strategic decisions
- Proven ability to work well under pressure
- Excellent communication and relationship building skills, creating connections to make great things happen
- Proven ability to identify and build on new opportunities
- A flexible approach, to comfortably manage ambiguity and changing environments/contexts.
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?
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.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.
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. Please contact
[email protected] or
020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.
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.
