Invaluable connections. Unmissable events. Millions raised changing lives.
Talent & Influencers Senior Manager
Salary: £56,000 – £60,000plusbenefits
Reports to:Head of Talent & Influencers
Grade: M2
Directorate: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement
Contract: Permanent
Hours:Full time 35 hours per week
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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: 5November 2025, 23:55
This vacancy may close earlier externally after 5 days 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:2 stage interviews
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.
At Cancer Research UK, we’re united by one purpose: to beat cancer. Every day, our passionate professionals push boundaries to make breakthroughs happen. But we know we must go further, faster — and that’s where you come in.
We’re looking for a dynamic individual with a flair for talent engagement and strategic relationship building. If you’re ready to grow your skills and make a meaningful impact, we’d love to hear from you.
What will I be doing?
Campaign Delivery & Operations
Campaigns, Ambassadors & Royal Engagement
- Lead the design and delivery of CRUK’s Ambassador Programme, engaging high-profile supporters who champion our cause.
- Support the planning and execution of royal engagements, ensuring discretion, sensitivity, and alignment with CRUK’s mission.
- Build and nurture relationships with ambassadors, royal households, senior stakeholders, and industry representatives.
Talent Engagement & Industry Networks
- Represent CRUK externally across the talent and influencer landscape — from TV and film to fashion, music, business, and social media.
- Identify and onboard new talent for campaigns, ensuring their involvement supports strategic goals.
- Provide expert advice on reputational, political, and industry matters related to talent partnerships.
Strategic Collaboration & Leadership
- Partner with the Senior Manager (Campaign Delivery) to align ambassador, royal, and campaign activities.
- Offer strategic insights on emerging trends in talent, philanthropy, and patronage.
- Play a key role in the Relationship Management leadership team, contributing to planning, prioritisation, and cross-organisational collaboration.
What are you looking for?
- A well-connected professional with credibility across the talent and influencer sectors.
- Proven experience managing ambassador or patron programmes in high-profile or charitable settings.
- Familiarity with royal or high-level patron engagement, including protocol and reputational considerations.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and inspire senior stakeholders.
- Strong communicator, adept at crafting compelling strategies, proposals, and briefings.
- Strategic thinker who can balance long-term vision with short-term opportunities.
- Commercially aware, with a knack for spotting and maximising value.
- Understanding of the charity sector and the unique dynamics of working with talent and high-profile supporters.
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 experiencewe’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 ourcareers 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].
For more updates on our work and careers, follow us on: LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, X and YouTube.
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.
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Join Gallagher’s Marketing Studio team as a Digital Content Editor and help shape engaging digital experiences that captivate audiences and drive results. You’ll create optimised content that connects with people, supports business goals, and enhances our global digital presence. This is your chance to make a real impact in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
How you’ll make an impact
In this role, you’ll craft SEO-friendly content for Gallagher’s digital platforms, ensuring it’s engaging, accessible, and tailored to diverse audiences. You’ll collaborate with stakeholders to manage content requests, optimise web pages, and align with brand tone and style. Working closely with campaign strategists and creative teams, you’ll develop content that supports marketing campaigns and drives leads. You’ll also maintain style guides, refine workflows, and use analytics to improve content performance. By staying informed about competitors and industry trends, you’ll help keep Gallagher’s content innovative and competitive.
About You
- You’re skilled at creating SEO-optimised content that drives engagement.
- You write with empathy, tailoring content for diverse audiences, from individuals to global enterprises.
- You’re data-driven, using analytics to guide content decisions and improve performance.
- You’re experienced in B2B and B2B2C writing, with a portfolio of varied projects.
- You’re a strong communicator who enjoys collaborating with global teams and stakeholders.
Compensation and benefits
On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Minimum of 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays, and the option to ‘buy’ extra days
- Defined contribution pension scheme, which Gallagher will also contribute to
- Life insurance, which will pay 4x your basic annual salary, which you can top-up to 10x
- Income protection, we’ll cover up to 50% of your annual income, with options to top up
- Health cash plan or Private medical insurance
Other benefits include:
- Three fully paid volunteering days per year
- Employee Stock Purchase plan, offering company shares at a discount
- Share incentive plan, HMRC approved, tax effective, stock purchase plan
- Critical illness cover
- Discounted gym membership, with over 3,000 gyms nationally
- Season ticket loan
- Access to a discounted voucher portal to save money on your weekly shop or next big purchase
- Emergency back-up family care
- And many more…
We value inclusion and diversity
Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organisation. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher is Disability Confident Committed. We have pledged to make sure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, in addition to supporting our existing employees with any long-term health conditions or disabilities.
We understand that applicants may have disabilities, if you do, you may find some parts of the recruitment process more challenging than others. Don’t worry, we’re here to help, however, we can only do this if you let us know.
Should you require reasonable adjustments to your application, please get in touch with [email protected] . If you’d prefer to speak on the phone, please request a call back, leaving details, so we get in touch.
Our employing entity, Arthur J. Gallagher Services (UK) Limited, is proud to be accredited as a Living Wage employer with the Living Wage Foundation. We are committed to diversity and opportunity for all and are opposed to any form of less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender or gender identity, marital status, civil partnership status, parental status, race, ethnicity, colour, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion/ belief, age and those with caring responsibilities.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status),sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals),gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.
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As a part of The Brandtech Group, we’re at the forefront of leveraging cutting-edge AI technology to revolutionise how we create and deliver work. Our AI solutions enhance efficiency, spark creativity, and drive insightful decision-making, empowering our teams to produce innovative and impactful results.
Role: Influencer Manager
Location: London, England, United Kingom
About the role:
As Influencer Manager, you’ll be responsible for transforming social data into actionable insights that drive strategy, creativity, and performance across multi-brand portfolio. You’ll lead social listening, trend analysis, and performance reporting, ensuring our campaigns are informed by data and optimised for impact across diverse markets.
What you will be doing:
- Monitor conversations, hashtags, and emerging trends across platforms (Instagram, TikTok, X, YouTube).
- Use social listening tools to identify opportunities for engagement and content creation.
- Provide cultural and category insights to inform campaign planning.
- Develop dashboards and reports to track KPIs such as engagement, reach, sentiment, and share of voice.
- Analyse campaign performance and provide actionable recommendations for optimisation.
- Distinguish between paid and organic impact in reporting.
- Implement AI tools for predictive trend analysis and automated reporting. • Explore generative AI for summarising insights and creating visualised reports.
- Champion the integration of AI in social data workflows for efficiency and accuracy.
- Work closely with social strategists, influencer managers, and performance marketing teams to embed insights into planning.
- Ensure compliance with data privacy regulations and ethical AI practices.
What you need to be great in this role:
- 5+ years in social analytics, insights, or digital strategy roles.
- Strong knowledge of social listening tools (e.g., Brandwatch, Sprinklr) and analytics platforms.
- Familiarity with AI-driven analytics and best practice prompting for LLMs.
- Ability to distil actionable insights from large datasets and present them clearly.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills for storytelling with data.
- Experience working across multiple brands and markets, ideally within FMCG or retail.
- Strong organisational skills and ability to manage multiple reporting cycles simultaneously.
Req ID: 14879
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OLIVER,a part of the Brandtech Group, is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected. All applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodivergence, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.
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