Marketing Associate

Job description

·  Job facts

Marketing Associate, Customer strategy team

The role is normally office-based (Burgess Hill West Sussex), currently, the team is expected to work from home until further notice

1 Year Fixed Term Contract

The role

We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic Marketing Associate to join our marketing team, reporting to the Senior Market Manager. You will join a fast-paced, dynamic and successful team to coordinate the delivery of tactical campaigns across the portfolio and contribute to the delivery of the strategic marketing plan. Supported by our Marketing Executives, you will work closely with Product and Market Managers on activities including, but not limited to:

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Creation and management of marketing collateral

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Programing and delivery of campaigns

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Planning and implementation of promotional/digital events

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Research of market trends as part of the business planning process

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Management of creative agencies

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Training program delivery and support

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Process improvement

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Mentoring and onboarding of marketing interns

You will also coordinate internal communications and support external communications that increase the visibility of the value of in vitro diagnostics across the UK and Ireland.

As part of this team, you will become a digital marketing champion, leading the utilisation of Salesforce for Marketing through Marketo, ensuring that digital assets on Showpad are appropriate, deliver analytical reports on the usage of Marketing collateral and suggest implementation of new practices to the marketing team. In this role, you will stay closely connected with our global marketing colleagues and help disseminate the adoption of new tools/concepts into the UK marketing organisation.

Who are you?

You have a science/business/marketing degree or equivalent, and whilst a formal marketing (e.g. CIM) qualification is not essential it would be an advantage, as would knowledge of a healthcare marketing environment or previous experience at Roche. You will have worked in your first commercial role and have at least 1 year of work experience in a business environment.

You are dynamic, hardworking and self-reliant with a flexible attitude to challenging situations. With a high level of organisation skills, you have the ability to work independently and are able to prioritise tasks in order to maximise productivity. Your strong communication skills enable you to work effectively across multi-disciplinary teams.

The successful candidate will be digitally focused with a strong desire to acquire excellent customer insight. To be successful in this position you must be able to demonstrate:

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Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentation);

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Excellent organisational skills Copywriting skills; English as mother tongue standard

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Competence in Microsoft Office products.

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Must have excellent attention to detail, including good proofing skills

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High sense of personal responsibility with a strong work ethic with a desire for professional development

About the organisation

Roche Diagnostics offers the industry's broadest range of diagnostic tests. Our pioneering technologies and solutions not only help ensure an accurate diagnosis, they can detect the risk of disease, predict how a disease may progress, and enable the right treatment decision at the outset. And, through our successful collaboration with laboratories, we provide the fast and reliable results needed for life-changing decisions.

Roche Diagnostics UK & Ireland is in an exciting phase of growth, where the business is channelling its energy, focus, functions and processes towards enhancing customer and patient experience in the countries it operates in. As the medical diagnostics market-leader in UK & Ireland, the organisation recognises its responsibility to the healthcare system and will continue to remain agile in developing new ways of working, with a growth mindset.

Roche is a company that not only invests in its business – over £6.5 billion in R&D worldwide, including £460 million in the UK last year – but equally importantly in its people.

Investing in you

What this means for you is not only a competitive salary and benefits package, but also access to training programmes and continuous support to build on your knowledge, skills and potential, helping you prepare for the exciting opportunities for further career development. All of which has gained Roche 2019 Top Employer status in the UK and Europe and The 2020 Sunday Times' Award as one of the top 25 Big companies to work for ( rank 4th).

Application Closing Date: 28th May 2020

Roche is an equal opportunity employer.
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·  Who we are

Our UK Diagnostics business, headquartered in Burgess Hill, West Sussex, employs approximately 560 highly skilled individuals. We provide the industry's broadest range of diagnostics and monitoring products & services, spanning all sectors of the market: from small hand held devices used directly by patients or healthcare professionals, to large diagnostic instruments found in hospital laboratories.

Roche is an equal opportunity employer and strictly prohibits unlawful discrimination based upon an individual's race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin/ancestry, age, mental/physical disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.