Communications and Marketing Associate

Role Overview

• Plan, schedule, and publish content across our social channels, with an eye on performance and brand consistency.
• Draft blogs, newsletters, LinkedIn posts, and email campaigns that make complex science feel human and compelling.
• Support our PR activity
• media monitoring, coverage reports, press release drafts, and briefing materials for senior leaders.
• Help plan and coordinate conferences, trade shows, and webinars, including on-the-day presence.
• Assist with campaign execution and tracking across both the comms and commercial marketing functions.
• Keep our content calendar, mailing lists, and sales materials library organised and up to date.
• Conduct research: competitor monitoring, sector trends, audience insights
• turning findings into useful summaries for the team.

Requirements

• A strong writer
• clear, engaging, and able to adapt your tone across formats and audiences.
• Digitally curious
• familiar with LinkedIn and interested in what makes content perform.
• Organised and proactive
• able to manage multiple tasks, meet deadlines, and know when to escalate.
• Genuinely interested in life sciences, genomics, or health technology (you don't need a science degree, but you need to care about the mission).
• A collaborative team player
• comfortable taking direction from two different leads without losing initiative.
• Prior experience in a marketing, comms, or content role.
• Familiarity with tools like Webflow, Mailchimp, Sprout Social, Canva, or Figma.
• An interest in media relations, events, or PR.

Benefits

• Competitive Reward: Salaries are externally benchmarked annually to ensure market-aligned compensation.
• Clear Career Path: A straightforward, open progression framework means you'll always know the path to promotion and how to achieve your next career goal.
• Continuous Learning: Including external courses and a wide library of L&D materials, because your growth is our success.
• Holiday: 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, plus an extra 3-day company-wide shutdown at year-end.
• Financial & Health Security: Robust benefits including a market-leading pension scheme, comprehensive private health insurance for you and your family with NO excess, critical illness, and life assurance.
• Enhanced Leave: Enhanced paid family leave to support all new parents.
• Hybrid Working
• Truly Inclusive Time Off: Our 'Bank Your Bank Holiday' program allows you to exchange public holidays for dates that hold personal or cultural significance to you.
• Vibrant Social Culture: From regular Town Halls and team picnics to organised sports events, our social committee ensures frequent opportunities to connect and celebrate.
• Green Commute: Cycle-to-Work scheme and convenient office locations near major transport hubs.