Careers

Our team of experts is united by a singular purpose: accelerating life-changing treatments for patient benefit. We foster a collaborative, innovative culture where your ideas can thrive. 

Join us in making a difference.

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Further. Faster. Together.

We are looking for individuals passionate about collaboration, innovation, and making a tangible impact on people's lives. 

Whether you join one of our drug discovery sites, work at our main office in London, or join our team as a home-based member of staff, you can make a difference from anywhere in the country. 

View our available vacancies below, or contact us to learn more about working with us. 

Our vacancies

Full-time, 35 hours per week, £50,000-£59,000 plus benefits

Business Development Manager (Data & AI)

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

This role will work closely with other members of Cancer Research Horizons to drive the development of a portfolio of commercially available multi-omic datasets and lead on engaging with industry partners to maximise the insights and impact from CRUK generated data. The postholder will also collaborate with colleagues in CRUK’s Research and Innovation teams to support the finalisation, delivery and implementation of CRUK’s new Data Science strategy, that could revolutionise the way that CRUK enables data reuse.

CLOSES: 1 November 2026
Full-time, 35 hours per week, £60,000 - £68,000 plus benefits

Translation Executive

Location: Homebased, Cambridge (with the expectation for regular travel across your region circa 2/3 days per week)

As a Research Translation Executive, you will be responsible for the development and implementation of plans for translation of CRUK funded research at specified key CRUK-funded sites across your region, this role will be focused on the Cambridge region. This will include working with oncology researchers to proactively identify projects and technologies with patient benefit potential, including setting the intellectual property strategy and driving project development by working with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

CLOSES: 1 November 2026
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Our principles. Our culture.

Our culture is centred on collaboration, innovation and being bold, with the driving purpose of beating cancer. Our vision is to create a diverse workplace where everyone feels they belong and benefits from the work we do. 

We value different perspectives that could help us find innovative solutions to our challenges and we want a workforce that represents our communities. 

This is how we’ll beat cancer for everyone. 

Join us in our mission

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Explore our benefits

Find out how we support our people with benefits, tools and policies to help improve work-life balance and achieve personal and career goals.

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Our people

Meet the experts fast-tracking scientific breakthroughs into patient benefit.

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About us

We take cutting-edge innovations from lab bench to bedside, translating them into effective treatments and diagnostics for cancer patients.

Do you want to help bring forward the day when all cancers are conquered?

Our specialist recruitment team is here to support you if you have any questions.

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