Senior Individual Giving Executive

Are you a strategic thinker with a proven track record of successfully planning and executing organisational strategies?Are you a proactive problem solver who can confidently challenge the status quo? Are you an accomplished project manager? 

If so you could be the Senior Planning and Performance Executive we are looking for! 

About the role

As a Senior Planning and Performance Executive at the British Heart Foundation (BHF) you will be crucial in enhancing our Marketing Fundraising and Engagement (MFE) offering. You’ll help us plan and optimise our operations and performance, aligning them with our financial, brand, health, and customer engagement objectives.

You'll ensure we are making informed decisions, that our marketing and fundraising activities are adding value and identify opportunities to grow income.

You will be:

• Improving Marketing Operations: Continuously improving our core marketing and operational processes, fostering efficiencies, collaboration, and providing necessary training and development.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensuring marketing and fundraising strategies are aligned with resources of the MFE team, providing valuable strategic insights, offering recommendations, and monitoring.
• Project Delivery: Working closely with the Marketing Strategy and Planning team to deliver key projects, contributing to the success of our marketing and fundraising strategy.
• Performance and Financial Measurement: Regularly analysing our MFE activities against targets, offering insights to help us achieve our strategic objectives swiftly, and ensuring that outcomes are translated into action.
• Activity Prioritisation: Use a comprehensive scoring matrix to prioritise marketing and fundraising activities, helping advance our mission and revenue. You'll modify these priorities in response to evolving changes.

This is your chance to make a real impact, work cross-functionally in a large organisation, and directly contribute to our mission of fighting heart disease. Join us and make a difference!

Working arrangements

This is 12 month fixed term contract covering family leave. 
This is a blended role where your work will be dual-located between your home and our London office. 
 
At the BHF, we believe in the power of being together, so our colleagues on blended contracts can expect to spend some time in their office, at least one day each week, on average. The use of our office spaces is driven in part by your role and the activities you need to do. 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. 
 
Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage. 

About you

You are an accomplished project manager, ideally with a Six Sigma certification, who excels in strategic planning and evaluation.
Your experience includes identifying operational and strategic challenges, creating innovative solutions, and rigorously monitoring their effectiveness. You’re well-versed in managing operational plans and key performance indicators (KPIs).
Preferably, you'll have a background in fundraising and marketing, with a history of engaging diverse audiences, stakeholders, and supporters, as well as experience delivering profitable campaigns.
With outstanding financial and data analysis skills, you are able to leverage insights to recommend process enhancements, inform decision-making, and drive continuous improvement.
A proactive problem solver with a passion for process optimisation, confident in challenging the status quo, you possess exceptional interpersonal and communication skills. You’re capable of negotiating and influencing at various organisational levels and managing multiple fast paced projects independently.

About us
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 free from the fear of heart and circulatory diseases.
We value and respect every individual’s unique contribution, celebrate diversity, and make inclusion part of what we do every day. 
Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, Igniting Change, along with our internal EDI group, Kaleidoscope, and a growing number of employee network groups (our Affinity Groups), help us create an environment where all our colleagues and volunteers can succeed.
Benefits
To find out more about the benefits available at the BHF please download our benefits document at the bottom of our advert page.
Interview process
Interviews will be held over Microsoft Teams.