Salary: £ 39,000 – £44,000 plus benefits
Reports to: Senior Consumer Insight and Experience Manager
Contract: Fixed Term Contract (8 months)
Hours: Full time (35 hours per week)
Location: Stratford, London with High flex with 1-2 days in the office,
Closing date: 5 August 2026 at 23:55
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.
Interview Dates:
- Screening Call – 12 th / 14 th August 2026
- Final stage – 18 th / 19 th August 2026
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 innovative and ambitious, someone like you.
At Cancer Research UK, our marketing, fundraising and engagement activity is most effective when it is rooted in a deep understanding of what matters to our audiences. That's where the Consumer Insight and Experience (CIX) team comes in.
We're looking for a Consumer Insight and Experience Manager to join our Data, Insight and Performance (DIP) directorate on an 8 - month fixed-term contract covering an internal secondment . This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced researcher to play a pivotal role in ensuring decisions across Marketing, Fundraising and Engagement (MFE) are informed by robust consumer insight and a strong understanding of audience needs, motivations and experiences.
Working alongside the Senior Managers in the Consumer Insight and Experience team , you'll lead insight projects to understand the attitudes and behaviors of our audiences and translate insight into actionable recommendations to inform proposition development and strategies.
You'll combine strong research expertise with excellent stakeholder management skills, and ability to translate evidence into compelling recommendations that influence decision-making across the organisation .
If you're passionate about uncovering what matters most to audiences, and helping an organisation make smarter, more audience-centric decisions, we'd love to hear from you.
As Consumer Insight and Experience Manager, you'll manage and deliver a range of qualitative and quantitative research projects, ensuring stakeholders have the insight they need to make informed decisions.
Manage primary and secondary insight research projects , including commissioning market research agencies, establishing clear project objectives , managing project timelines , and overseeing costs and data quality checks to ensure projects deliver robust and actionable research findings
Carry out end-to-end market research projects in-house, managing development of research materials, sampling, analysis and report writing
Develop strong relationships with internal stakeholders, working closely with them to understand their insight requirements and ambitions, and providing guidance on the most appropriate insight projects or programmes of work to meet their goals.
Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.
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 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.
We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
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 0 20 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.
