Innovation and Product Development Manager

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The opportunity

Are you an Innovation specialist looking to lead on fundraising innovation at one of the UK's largest charities?

Do you have experience designing, developing, and delivering fresh new audience-led concepts that will grow income and attract new customers?

We're recruiting an Innovation and Product Development Manager (12-month fixed term contract) to deliver new fundraising products which will be capable of generating significant income to fund our lifesaving research. You'll be responsible for steering a cross-organisational team through the process of innovation: insight, ideation, testing, scoping, and delivering new products back into the organisation.

We're looking for passionate, resilient, dedicated individuals to join a driven team with diverse skills and experience. You'll get the opportunity to deliver unique propositions and innovations that will enable us to increase our funding of lifesaving research by 25% over the next 5 years.

Working arrangements

This is a 12-month fixed term contract until March 2026, covering family leave. Start date is as soon as possible.

This is a dual location role, with your working time split 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.

Due to the nature of the role, we will also require in-person workshop/product development sprint attendance (either in our London office or another central London location) for up to 5 days, approximately 3-4 times a year. Product development sprints will be agreed significantly in advance (2 months minimum) to give all members of the team significant opportunity to plan.

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

We're looking for someone with a proven track-record in fundraising innovation and new product development.

To be successful in this role you will have experience of the following:
• Fundraising experience
• Innovation experience
• Managing projects and people
• Engaging senior stakeholders
• Delivering business cases to the highest standard
• Budgeting, forecasting, and contracting 3rd party suppliers.

You'll have a strong vision of what audience-led innovation means and how it can transform the charity sector. Having led teams through innovation processes, you'll have the experience in training and up-skilling those around you. You will also have worked in fast-paced and high-pressure environments and delivered commercially successful new products to market.

We're looking for bright, exciting individuals and analytical creatives to challenge and develop our fundraising innovation department. Your ability to lead, influence, excite and create will be fundamental to our innovation success.

If you're creative and curious, determined and driven with a passion to transform fundraising at the BHF, then we'd love to hear from you.

What can we offer you?

Our MyBHF Career Academy provides you with support, inspiration, and opportunities to help you unlock your full potential.

Our generous staff benefits include:
• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Private medical insurance
• Dental health cover
• Contribution towards gym membership
• Pension with employer contribution up to 10%
• Life assurance

We have been recognised by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) for our Live Well. Work Well. Programme. Heart health is central to our mission, and that starts with you. We provide a programme of activities, opportunities, and guidance to inspire and support you to live a healthy and happy life, at home and at work.

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.

Interview process

First stage interviews will be held virtually over MS Teams. For those successful, there will be a final-round interview in person in our London office (NW1 7AW).

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.

As part of our commitment to be an inclusive employer and ensure fairness and consistency in selecting the best candidate for this role, the BHF will 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.