Legacy Partnerships Manager (West Midlands and Wales), CANCER RESEARCH UK

Guardian Jobs; Birmingham; Remote; GBP 35,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity organization is seeking a Legacy Partnerships Manager to develop and manage high-value relationships with solicitor partners across the West Midlands and Wales. This flexible home-based role involves engaging legal professionals to promote legacy giving, ensuring a seamless supporter journey, and utilizing data to enhance partnerships. The successful candidate will enjoy a competitive salary and a generous benefits package, contributing to the vital mission of beating cancer.

Benefits

Generous benefits package

Flexible working culture

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and management skills.
• Ability to understand and translate data for strategic decisions.
• Proven ability to work well under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Identifying and managing relationships with solicitors and will writing firms.
• Delivering a seamless end-to-end supporter journey.
• Using data to make insights and recommendations for improvement.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Data analysis

Communication

Relationship building

Opportunity identification

Flexibility

Job description

Legacy Partnerships Manager (West Midlands and Wales), CANCER RESEARCH UK

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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 8 June 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.

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.

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