Communications and Marketing Manager

Job overview

Paddington Life Sciences is a thriving hub of life sciences businesses centred around St Mary’s Hospital, driving collaboration across the NHS, technology, and pharmaceutical sectors to advance transnational research and access to healthcare innovation for our patients, staff and communities.

As marketing manager you will be responsible for planning, developing, delivering, and measuring the impact of marketing communications for Paddington Life Sciences. You will also support the development of a new membership organisation, Paddington Life Sciences Partners.

As marketing manager you will help position Paddington Life Sciences, led by the Trust, as a new, serious player in the UK’s successful and growing life sciences sector, and a complementary addition to London’s existing life sciences clusters, especially Imperial College London’s White City campus.

You will also contribute to wider change and development programmes and projects, helping to ensure they are shaped by, and are responsive to, the needs and preferences of our key audiences.

This is a fixed-term role available on a full-time or part-time basis.

Main duties of the job

The marketing manager will help create widespread awareness and support for Paddington Life Sciences amongst all key target audiences and stakeholders at local, national and international level.

The post holder will also help ensure Paddington Life Sciences vision, in parallel with the redevelopment of the St Mary’s Hospital site, is promoted.

The marketing manager will build the Paddington Life Sciences narrative from the basis of the Trust’s existing and growing research and innovation capabilities through partnerships.

The marketing manager will ensure all key research partners and organisations are informed and involved in the communication and marketing of Paddington Life Sciences.

The marketing manager will be required to write and design content for a range of communication and marketing campaigns, using online and offline channels, including media coverage, newsletters, seminars, brochures, leaflets, directories and conference presentation content. This will involve liaising with freelance writers and designers as required. Managing digital channels and online presence, including social media channels and website, creating social media and blog content, as well as maintaining and optimising content on the website.

The marketing manager will support the membership organisation by coordinating meetings, action plans and progress reports and oversee the membership database.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.