Legacy Partnerships Team Manager

£230m legacy income. Help fund a third of our research. Improve countless lives.

Legacy Partnerships Team Manager (Legacy Giving/ Pledge)

£42,000- £47,000 + benefits

Reports to: Senior Proposition Manager

Grade: M1

Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location. Home-based Managing a home based team. Occasional travel to London for extended leadership team meetings c.x4 a year

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: 12 September 2025, 23:55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. If you require more time to apply as part of a reasonable adjustment, please contact [email protected] as soon as possible.

Recruitment process: One competency-based interview

Interview date: W/C 22nd September

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.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are looking for a passionate, ambitious and experienced people manager to join us as a Legacies Partnership Team Manager. In this role you will lead a team of c6 Legacy Partnership Managers and a Performance and Operations Manager, based regionally, who deliver the team’s regional strategy by managing relationships with c.800 law firms providing our Will Writing services across the UK

Gifts in Wills (or legacies) account for around a third of our income. In 2023/24, we received £230m from legacies to fund our life-saving research.

In this role you will be helping to define the Professional audience engagement strategy and translate it into divisional strategies for your team to go out and deliver. We are looking for candidates either with a background in Legacies or Financial services, who have experience partnering and managing relationships with professionals audiences. You’ll be solution driven and an expert identifying areas for continuous improvements and growth.

What will I be doing?

• Working collaboratively with legacy colleagues to develop, plan and oversee the delivery of the professional partnership engagement strategy
• Support the Performance Manager in monitoring and reporting on the growth and engagement of our professional network
• Work as part of cross-functional team to maintain our market share by developing a community of best practice in building professional partnerships focussing efforts and resources in areas to optimise impact
• Lead the development of the professional partner engagement strategy, working collaboratively with colleagues to oversee, monitor and report on performance against objectives and KPIs
• Working with product development teams, commission insight to inform new engagement tools and products for this audience
• Manage and motivate a team of Legacy Partnership Managers to enhance professional partner engagement activity and building on these relationships, where appropriate, to complement the legacy giving product strategies
• Encourage a culture of empowerment, building a community of best practice across the team
• Work collaboratively as part of cross-functional team to deliver initiatives aligned to the legacy operational plan
• Continually seek opportunities to challenge and improve ways of working

What are you looking for?

• Experience of managing and motivating a large team within a professional service or legacies setting.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills, with the ability to quickly get buy in and work collaboratively
• Experience of budget management
• Proven ability to work well under pressure
• Problem solving skills. Ability to overcome issues, propose solutions and make sound commercial decisions
• Ability to identify and build on new opportunities
• A flexible approach, to comfortably manage ambiguity and changing environments/contexts
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills, creating connections to make great things happen

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.

Additional Information

For more information about working with us please visit our website or contact us at [email protected].

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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.