Head of Scotland
Employer: Macmillan
Location: Home based with regular travel within your nation and occasionally to London. We welcome applications from candidates based within Scotland.
Working hours: Full time
Salary: £72,000-£80,000
Closing date: 11.59pm on 19th April 2026 on Sunday
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Are you a senior, strategic leader with strong credibility across government, health systems or the voluntary sector? Do you excel at building influential relationships, shaping strategy and leading across complex, devolved environments?
We’re looking for exceptional, strategic and outward-facing leaders to represent Macmillan at the most senior level within Scotland, strengthening our impact for people living with cancer.
About us
At Macmillan you’ll find talented people working together to do whatever it takes to support people living with cancer. We’re going all out to find even better ways to help even more people who need our support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions.
Our new organisational strategy sets out how we’ll fight even harder to make every pound raised count for even more. With your help, we’ll transform cancer care for good.
About the role
As Head of Scotland, you will provide senior strategic leadership for Macmillan within your nation, shaping how the organisation delivers impact within a devolved policy and health system context. You will align Macmillan’s partnerships, influence, resources and expertise to national priorities and opportunities, ensuring our work is relevant, coordinated and impactful.
As Macmillan’s most senior representative in your nation, you will build and steward influential relationships with governments, health and public service leaders, voluntary sector partners and other key stakeholders. You will position Macmillan as a trusted partner and an influential voice in improving outcomes for people living with cancer.
Internally, you will lead across the organisation to ensure a coherent and strategic approach to our work within your nation, providing leadership to matrix teams and bringing together activity across policy, services, fundraising and engagement.
This is a pivotal senior leadership role requiring someone who can operate confidently in complex systems, influence at the highest levels, and translate strategy into tangible impact.
Key responsibilities:
Provide strategic leadership for Macmillan’s work within your nation, aligned to organisational priorities
Lead the development and delivery of Macmillan’s strategic approach within your nation, aligned to organisational priorities
Translate UK-wide strategy into a clear national vision and plan, aligning activity, partnerships and influence
Hold senior relationships with ministers, officials, health system leaders and key partners
Position Macmillan as a trusted and influential voice in shaping cancer policy, services and system change
Act as a senior external spokesperson, representing Macmillan in national forums, media and high-profile settings
Lead cross-organisational collaboration, aligning activity across functions to deliver national priorities
Provide leadership to matrix teams, driving coordinated delivery across directorates
Identify and secure strategic opportunities for partnership, influence and growth
Provide insight and advice on the national political, policy and system landscape to inform organisational strategy
Contribute to Macmillan’s wider organisational leadership, providing strategic insight and advice to the Executive Team and wider organisation
Strengthen Macmillan’s understanding of devolved contexts and ensure effective UK-wide working.
About you
You’ll succeed in this role if you are a highly credible, strategic and outward-facing leader who can operate with autonomy, influence at senior levels and drive meaningful change across complex systems.
You will bring:
Significant senior leadership experience within the public, health, voluntary or related sectors within your nation
A strong track record of influencing government, health system leaders and senior stakeholders
Deep understanding of the political, policy and health system landscape within your nation
Proven experience of setting strategic direction and translating strategy into delivery in complex environments
Demonstrated ability to lead through influence and deliver outcomes across matrix organisations
A strong personal profile and ability to build, maintain and leverage influential networks
Experience of representing an organisation at senior external forums and in high-profile settings
Excellent judgement, political awareness and the ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity
A commitment to equity, inclusion and improving outcomes for people living with cancer
In return, we offer a range of benefits including:
25 days holiday plus flexible bank holiday options, increasing by 1 day every year of service up to 30 days.
Pension matched up to 7.5%
120+ learning and development offers, with access to external professional qualifications
Flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am–4pm
Holiday buying and selling scheme, life insurance, free wills, retail discounts and much moreRecruitment process
Application deadline: 11.59pm on 19th April 2026 on Sunday
1st stage interview dates (provisional): Virtual Teams interviews will be held on Friday 24th April
2nd stage interview dates (provisional): Virtual Teams interviews will be held on Friday 1st MayTo ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed.
We welcome applications from everyone who meets the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan.
We welcome applications from everyone who meet the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another minority ethnic background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy here along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.
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