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Email & SMS Marketing Executive

CANCER RESEARCH UK
25,000 per year
Stratford, London
Full-time
19th July 2026
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Email & SMS Marketing Executive

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Stratford (2 Redman Place)
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End Date: July 20, 2026 (12 days left to apply)
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Email & SMS Marketing Executive

Salary: £25,000 - £30,400 plus benefits

Department: Marketing, Fundraising & Engagement Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office). Employment type: 12-month Fixed Term Contract  Working hours: Full time, 35 hours per week Closing date: Sunday 19th July 23:55pm Interview Process: One stage competency-based interview with task via MS Teams  Interview date: W/C 27th July 2026

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. 

We’re looking for an Email & SMS Marketing Executive to join Cancer Research UK on Fixed term basis and help deliver high-quality, impactful campaigns that bring our work to life and inspire action. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a collaborative team of specialists, supporting the delivery of communications that play a vital role in funding life-saving research.

In this role, you’ll support the delivery of a wide range of email and SMS campaigns, working closely with marketing teams from across the charity. You’ll help plan supporter journeys, optimise communications, and ensure campaigns are delivered efficiently and to a high standard. Alongside this, you’ll review performance, analyse results, and use these insights to help improve future campaigns.

A key part of the role will involve building and sending campaigns using Adobe Campaign. You’ll be supported by experienced colleagues and have the opportunity to be trained on Adobe Campaign, develop your knowledge of email and SMS best practice, campaign optimisation, and marketing technology within a supportive and collaborative environment.

We’re looking for someone who is keen to build a career in marketing, with a particular interest in email and SMS Marketing. You’ll be curious, proactive, and eager to learn, with a strong approach to problem solving and the confidence to contribute ideas and see them through to delivery. You’ll be well organised, with strong attention to detail, and have excellent written and verbal communication skills. You’ll also enjoy working as part of a team and collaborating with others to deliver the best possible outcomes.

This role offers a fantastic opportunity to develop your marketing skills while contributing to meaningful work that helps fund life-saving research.

What you’ll be doing?  

  • Working in a team of six to build and send email and SMS campaigns using Adobe Campaign

  • Manage administrative tasks to ensure the smooth running of the Email & SMS teams processes, including user access for tools like Taxi for Email and Adobe Campaign

  • Work with marketing teams to plan and deliver email and SMS marketing campaign plans on time

  • Support the Email & SMS Marketing Senior Executives with larger email optimisation and delivery projects

  • Work collaboratively with other Digital Marketing teams, such as Website and content teams to ensure the whole supporter journey is optimised

  • Gather learnings of digital marketing trends or changes and work to implement these at Cancer Research UK

  • Support on reporting and post-campaign analysis, sharing recommendations on how to improve future campaign

What are we looking for?  

  • Have an interest and enthusiasm for Marketing and a desire to learn and develop skills in email and SMS Marketing

  • Able to use Microsoft Office packages including Excel, Word and PowerPoint

  • Ability to prioritise, manage conflicting deadlines, work well under pressure, and manage multiple tasks simultaneously

  • The ability to build strong working relationships and collaborate effectively

  • Experience of sending emails through an Email Marketing Platform

  • Understanding of audience segmentation, personalization and UX principles and experience of interpreting results

  • Experience of writing email content and running marketing campaigns and subsequent campaign analysis

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.  

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 fairly and objectively.

For more information on this career opportunity please  visit our website or contact us at 

. recruitment@cancer.org.uk

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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 recruitment@cancer.org.uk 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.