Senior Data Specialist

British Heart Foundation; London; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the British Heart Foundation as a Senior Data Specialist, where you will lead efforts to enhance data processes crucial for marketing and fundraising strategies. This hybrid role combines the flexibility of home office work with the benefit of a collaborative office environment in London. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data management, particularly within direct marketing contexts, including proficiency in utilizing CRM systems and data quality assurance.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Health and wellbeing support

Employee assistance programs

Qualifications

• Proven experience in managing complex databases in direct marketing.
• Experience with Blackbaud CRM or similar systems is essential.
• Strong communication skills and ability to manage multiple tasks.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to improve data processes supporting marketing efforts.
• Manage CRM database and ensure high-quality data management.
• Collaborate with various teams for data selection and exchange.

Skills

Attention to detail

Data quality management

SQL queries

Advanced Excel

CRM systems management

Data importing/exporting

Education

Experience in direct marketing databases

Tools

Blackbaud CRM

Microsoft Office

Job description

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Base pay range

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Location: Hybrid - London office & home

Salary Details: £34,000 - £36,000 p/a + benefits

Vacancy type: Fixed Term Contract

Are you a data enthusiast ready to make a real impact?

Join British Heart Foundation (BHF) as our Senior Data Executive and play a key role in powering our marketing and membership strategies with smart, insight-driven data solutions.

About the role

As our Senior Data Executive, you'll lead a small team to manage and improve data processes that support marketing and fundraising efforts. You’ll be responsible for extracting and preparing data for marketing communications, supporting data imports, and ensuring high data quality. You'll collaborate closely with marketing, fundraising, and technical teams to define data selection criteria and ensure accurate, timely data exchanges with suppliers.

You’ll also manage the CRM database, resolve data quality issues, and promote best practices in data management. In addition to handling your own data extracts, you’ll oversee team workload, support and train team members, and continuously improve data processes based on feedback. A key part of your role will be ensuring team performance and wellbeing, driving success through effective leadership and collaboration.

Working arrangements

Please note this is an 18 month fixed term contract.

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

About you

With proven previous experience running complex and large database selections in a busy direct marketing environment, you'll have experience ensuring complex and high-volume data quality and accuracy. You’ll have strong experience with Blackbaud CRM or similar systems, advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel), and a proven track record in importing and exporting data with external agencies. Your attention to detail and strong numeracy skills will enable you to deliver high-quality data management.

Ideally, you'll have a background in fundraising and have gained experience in providing data and interpretation to direct marketing teams for major campaigns, as well as writing SQL queries. You’ll also have a good standard of communication in both written and verbal forms and have experience working with external suppliers and internal stakeholders to deliver workloads to strict deadlines. You'll be experienced managing multiple tasks and your own time, prioritising workload appropriately while remaining supportive to your team.

About us

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we’ve helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We’re investing in ground-breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.

We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day.

Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.

Interviews will be held via MS Teams.

How to apply

Want to join us? Complete our short online application form—all you need is your CV and a supporting statement. Just select the Apply button below and take the first step towards an exciting new opportunity.

As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, the BHF will use anonymous CV software as part of the application journey.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process at either application or interview, please contact us.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

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• Industries

  Non-profit Organizations and Technology, Information and Media

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