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Senior Marketing Specialist
Location: Cheltenham
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum
Hours: Full time. Part time considered
The Role
The company are looking for an experienced, entrepreneurial, enthusiastic, smart, curious, articulate, and detail-oriented senior marketing professional to fill a full-time position, starting immediately. This person will focus an agreed portion of their time specifically on strategic engagement with a multistakeholder initiative that they coordinate for the pharmaceutical industry, therefore previous communications experience in this sector would be useful.
They are seeking a highly competent marketing and communications professional. You will report to the Marketing Manager and work closely with the Management team, other team members, clients and external stakeholders.
Key Responsibilies
Your main responsibilities will include:
- Working with their partners across diverse industry sectors and supply chains to service their communications needs at a strategic level. In particular you will spend an agreed portion of your time developing the communications strategy and plan for a multi-stakeholder initiative for the pharmaceutical industry, for which the company acts as the Project Management Office
- Chairing and coordinating communications working groups
- Planning and executing marketing campaigns
- Managing and coordinating the partner engagement and approvals processes
- Leading the production and development of marketing materials
- Managing partner / client websites
- Managing their partners’ presence on social media platforms
- Leading media outreach
This is a client facing role, which means that good written and verbal communications are a requisite, as well as confidence in dealing with people at different management levels and working in a range of institutional settings such as SMEs, corporations, NGOs and government agencies. They are a small team, the members of which work remotely. The applicant will need to be happy working autonomously, managing their own time, prioritising workload, coming up with ideas, thinking on their feet, and taking the initiative to ask questions and find solutions to problems.
Skills and Qualifications
- Ideally 5 - 8 years’ relevant professional work experience
- Ideally experience working on communications for the pharmaceutical industry
- Ideally knowledge of sustainability and circularity in packaging
- Experience working with a wide range of stakeholders with differing and competing views
- Experience in articulating a commercial marcomms strategy at C-suite level.
- Experience in developing marketing strategy and running marketing campaigns.
- Experience of creating comms assets
- A proactive, entrepreneurial attitude (show us)
- Skilled in developing pitch decks/presentations.
- Skilled in conceptualising content for marketing materials
- A flair for design
- Experience of Monday.com-type platforms.
- Must have experience of WordPress and PowerPoint,
- Strong working knowledge of social media platforms and how to maximise views through the development of targeted campaigns.
- Excellent writing skills
- Excellent time management, able to effectively prioritise a full and rapidly evolving workload and deliver to deadlines;
- Language skills: Excellent English-language proficiency essential, a second language would be a distinct advantage
Benefits
- A contract for 40 hours per week;
- A competitive salary, commensurate with experience;
- Allowance for professional skill development
- MacBook and other equipment relevant for the workspace
- 23 days holiday per annum plus bank holidays and 3-5 additional days to complete a passion project
- Annual employee incentive plan
- Diverse, exciting and impactful work;
- Being part of a dynamic and experienced international team passionate about serving its clients to build successful responsible businesses, and committed to corporate sustainability, human rights and social change; and
- Flexible hours and possibility to work remotely. They have a policy to accommodate remote, flexible and autonomous working arrangements in return for a commitment to extremely high-quality deliverables, working to fulfil project goals, and consistently meeting deadlines.
Unfortunately, they cannot support work visa applications so you must have permission to work in the country where you intend to work when you apply. This role is envisaged as a full-time, permanent position.
To Apply
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