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Location: London or Sheffield (home and office based)

About the role

Our strategy, Change Happens Now, sets out how we’ll work towards our vision that by 2050, everyone with breast cancer will live and live well. As our Head of Strategy, Planning and Innovation, you’ll play a central part in turning that strategy into action.

Reporting to our Director of Impact, Strategy and Innovation, you’ll build and lead our Strategy, Planning and Innovation team. You’ll hold, design and steward our portfolio of cross-cutting strategic programmes, bring discipline to organisational business planning, and build project management capability across the charity. You’ll also help create a culture of innovation, supporting teams to generate, test and scale new ideas that respond to the changing needs of people affected by breast cancer.

Leading 2 Strategic Programme Leads and a Project Manager, you’ll work closely with our Senior Leadership Team and Board of trustees. You’ll support major strategic partnerships, and you’ll lead the thinking and preparation for the next update to our strategy, turning evidence, learning and horizon scanning into clear choices about our future direction.

This is an evolving role, and you’ll have the opportunity to help shape it as our needs develop.

About you

You’ll have led the development or refresh of an organisational strategy, or a strategy of comparable scope and complexity. You’ll also have a track record of leading cross-cutting strategic programmes or organisational change from design through to delivery, and of running or overseeing a business planning cycle in a complex, multi-team organisation.

You’re an experienced leader who builds high-performing, inclusive teams, and you’re confident influencing at a senior level, including with leadership teams and boards. With strong portfolio management skills, you can sequence complex work and manage risks, dependencies and budgets to keep multi-year programmes on track.

You think beyond the current planning cycle and can turn long-term thinking into clear choices and practical plans. You’re comfortable working with ambiguity, and you bring the energy to drive new ideas forward without losing rigour.

Experience in a health, charity or other mission-led setting would be an advantage but isn’t essential.

Job description and benefits

The job description and our attractive benefits are available for you to download.

Primary location of role and hybrid working

This role is primarily based in our London or Sheffield office. Our hybrid working model allows you to work up to 3 days per week at home.

The salary range is:

£64,000 to £68,000 per annum if Sheffield based

£68,000 to £72,000 per annum if London based

When applying

We hope you choose to apply for this role. To support your application, you’ll be asked to submit your anonymised CV and a supporting statement online. Please refer to the essential criteria on the person specification and clearly provide as much information as you can with examples, to demonstrate how and where you meet the criteria.
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Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We’re committed to promoting equity, valuing diversity and creating an inclusive environment – for everyone who works for us, works with us, supports us and who
we support.

We reserve the right to close this advert early. Therefore, to avoid disappointment please submit your application as soon as possible, if you’re interested in this opportunity.

Closing date Friday 13 November 2026 at 11:59pm

Interview date Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November 2026