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• 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 leading and managing data import processes for BHF, ensuring high standards of data quality, accuracy, and efficiency

  About the role

  As our Senior Data Executive, you’ll support team members involved in import activities, conducts root cause analysis to resolve issues, and work closely with the Data Operations and Data Engineering teams to troubleshoot and improve processes.

  Ensuring all import documentation is maintained and kept up to date, you’ll drive continuous improvement across data and import-related practices, whilst also championing data import best practice and proactively identifying areas for improvement. 

  About you

  IT literate and fully conversant with Microsoft packages, you’ll have familiarity with CRM databases and, ideally, an understanding of charity fundraising. You’ll also have a good understanding of ETL tools, CRM systems, and database packages (Blackbaud Enterprise CRM, MS Dynamics 365, etc.).

  You’ll have previous experience of running data imports, ensuring quality, integrity and accuracy of data using an ETL tool, as well as experience of GDPR and dealing with confidential data, and using Blackbaud CRM, or have equivalent CRM knowledge. 

  To be successful in this role you’ll also have the following skills and experience:

  • Highly numerate.
  • Able to take a proactive approach to problem-solving, taking initiative to identify and resolve issues independently and a tenacious attitude to root cause analysis.
  • Excellent attention to detail and appreciation of data quality issues. 
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, able to communicate technical issues to a non-technical audience. 
  • Excellent time management skills, able to deliver workload to strict deadlines.
  • Collaborative team player able to share knowledge and learning openly to create understanding and support.
  • Able to manage multiple tasks, working with both external suppliers and internal stakeholders.

  Working arrangements

  This is a fixed term contract until December 2026.

  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.

  Belonging at BHF

  By embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment, we strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of saving and improving lives, ensuring our work reflects and serves the needs of every community across the UK. 

  To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.  

  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 where everyone has a healthier heart for longer. 

  Benefits and development

  At BHF, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits designed to support our colleagues’ wellbeing and professional growth. 

  To find out more about our benefits you can download the Benefits document at the bottom of this page or check out our Benefits and Development pages.

  Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

  Interview process

  The interview process may take place in-person or virtually via MS Teams. 

  How to apply

  It’s quick and easy to apply for a role at the BHF. Just click on the apply button below. All you’ll need is an up-to-date CV and a supporting statement, outlining your interest in the role and how you meet the role’s criteria 

  Our recruitment processes are fair, accessible, and inclusive. BHF 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. 

We’re looking for a Senior Innovation and Development Lead to help shape the future of how we grow income and engage customers at the British Heart Foundation (BHF). 

This isn’t about theory, it’s about turning bold ideas into real, sustainable income streams. The main focus of this role is developing fundraising and engagement products from new proposition to reimagining traditional engagement models, you’ll take concepts from insight → test → launch → scale. 

Responsible for driving innovation that delivers both impact and income you will:

• Identify new audience problems and income opportunities, using desk research, internal insight and commissioned customer research.
• Turn insight into new fundraising propositions (including digital, subscription and challenge‑based products), developing and refining concepts with clear success criteria.
• Test, pilot and launch ideas at pace, using MVPs and a test‑and‑learn approach to decide what to scale, adapt or stop.
• Build robust business and investment cases, including commercial modelling (e.g. payback, NPV and unit economics).
• Influence senior stakeholders with clear, evidence‑based recommendations.
• Lead successful propositions into BAU.

This is a big role that offers genuine ownership, with all delivery led and delivered in‑house without the support agencies. Visible at senior level the role provides the opportunity to turn insight into real impact.

About you 

As our ideal candidate, you’ll bring senior‑level experience in innovation, fundraising or product development, with a clear ability to turn insight into action. You’re commercially minded and creative, comfortable with ambiguity, and able to move at pace while staying focused on what delivers real value. 

You’ll have proven experience leading propositions end‑to‑end from early problem discovery and insight through testing, piloting, scaling and evaluation, all delivered in‑house. You’ve built and refined MVPs and pilots through evidence‑based experimentation, and you’re confident making calls on when to scale, pivot or stop initiatives. 

With advance data and insight skills, you can translate complex qualitative and quantitative insight into clear options and recommendations for senior stakeholders. You bring experience building strong business and investment cases, including budgeting and forecasting, as well as taking successful propositions into BAU. Used to working in complex, cross functional environments, you can influence without direct authority and manage interdependencies and governance with clarity. 

Working arrangements 

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. 

Belonging at BHF  
 
We celebrate and value the diversity of the communities we serve, recognising that embracing different perspectives and backgrounds strengthens our organisation and drives innovation. By fostering an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected and supported, we are better equipped to achieve our mission of helping people have a healthier heart for longer.  

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF. 

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 where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.