Associate Director, Global Marketing Campaigns
Location: Oxford
Work Model: Hybrid
About Oxford Nanopore Technologies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC, and Europe. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere.
We employ individuals from multiple subject areas, including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing, and commercialisation. Our sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale. This platform can analyze native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced and motivated Associate Director, Global Marketing Campaigns to join our Marketing team. This is a marketing leadership role responsible for owning the global marketing campaign strategy across strategic markets and product and platform campaigns. You will lead a team of Campaign Managers and be accountable for ensuring campaigns are strategically aligned, effectively delivered, and continuously improved to support business and marketing goals.
This role combines people leadership, campaign strategy, and operational excellence, requiring you to act as a player-coach. You will directly lead a small number of high-priority campaigns each year while driving process improvements, campaign governance, budget oversight, and team development.
Key Responsibilities
- Owning the global marketing campaign strategy across strategic markets and product and platform campaigns.
- Leading, coaching, and developing a team of 3–5 Campaign Managers, setting clear priorities and standards for delivery.
- Building a successful, inclusive, and high-performing team environment with a strong focus on development, accountability, and engagement.
- Leading hiring, onboarding, and retention within the campaigns team, ensuring the right capability is in place for current and future business needs.
- Personally leading and executing a small number of high-priority, strategically important campaigns each year.
- Overseeing campaign planning, intake, prioritisation, briefing, governance, reporting, and measurement.
- Managing the campaign calendar and team resource planning to ensure continuity and effective delivery across multiple priorities.
- Driving campaign process improvements to increase efficiency, consistency, and quality across the team.
- Acting as a brand champion, ensuring campaign activity aligns with Oxford Nanopore brand guidelines, tone of voice, and quality standards.
- Encouraging creativity, innovation, and disciplined experimentation across campaign activity, including testing of messaging, channels, and approaches.
- Working closely with various internal teams—including Strategic Marketing, Content and Communications, Channel Leads, Regional Teams, Digital, Marketing Technology, Events, Paid Social, and Business Systems—to deliver integrated campaigns.
- Managing agency and vendor relationships relevant to campaign delivery.
- Holding accountability for the campaigns team budget and ensuring spend is well managed and aligned to agreed objectives
- Using campaign data, insight, and learnings to optimize performance and strengthen future activity.
What You'll Bring
We are looking for a highly motivated individual who meets the following criteria:
- Significant experience leading integrated, multi-channel B2B marketing campaigns.
- Experience in life sciences or another complex scientific or technical environment is ideal.
- Strong strategic planning skills and excellent stakeholder management.
- Ability to lead and develop a high-performing team.
- Confidence in balancing strategic oversight with hands-on delivery, improving ways of working, managing budgets and agencies, and using insight and data to improve campaign effectiveness.
- An excellent communicator, highly organised, and comfortable working across multiple stakeholders, priorities, and timelines in a fast-paced global environment.
- A person who values quality, champions the brand, and creates an environment where creativity, innovation, and experimentation can thrive.
Previous team leadership experience is advantageous. Strong candidates with clear evidence of leadership potential and readiness to step into a broader people leadership role will also be considered.
Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and abilities to perform the duties of the job.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
About UsOxford Nanopore Technologies: Our goal is to bring the widest benefits to society through enabling the analysis of anything, by anyone, anywhere. The company has developed a new generation of nanopore-based sensing technology for faster, information rich, accessible and affordable molecular analysis. The first application is DNA/RNA sequencing, and the technology is in development for the analysis of other types of molecules including proteins. The technology is used to understand and characterise the biology of humans and diseases such as cancer, plants, animals, bacteria, viruses, and whole environments. With a thriving culture of ambition and strong innovation goals, Oxford Nanopore is a UK headquartered company with global operations and customers in more than 125 countries.
Skills Required
- Significant experience leading integrated multi-channel B2B marketing campaigns
- Experience in life sciences or another complex scientific or technical environment
- Strong strategic planning skills and excellent stakeholder management
- Ability to lead and develop a high-performing team
- Confidence in managing budgets and agencies
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Oxford Nanopore Technologies and has not been reviewed or approved by Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered good to above average across many roles, with employer-provided ranges visible for several U.S. commercial and applications positions and company materials emphasizing market‑competitive base pay. Commercial and some senior technical posts, particularly in the U.S., are positioned as competitive and often paired with strong variable components.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — All‑employee share plans in the UK and a U.S. employee stock purchase plan indicate broad access to equity as part of total reward. Company communications highlight attractive bonus and share plans that add meaningful upside beyond base pay.
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Healthcare Strength — U.S. roles indicate strong health insurance and core protections, while official materials and country overviews reference private medical coverage and wellbeing support. These elements position the health package as a notable strength alongside cash compensation.
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What We Do
Our goal is to enable the analysis of anything, anywhere, by anyone. We have developed the world’s first and only nanopore DNA and RNA sequencing platform. It’s a new generation of sequencing technology — the only one to offer: scalability to portable or ultra-high throughput formats, real-time data delivery, and the ability to elucidate rich biological data. We are aiming to disrupt the way that biological analyses are currently performed, and open up new applications that have a profound, positive impact on society. Our devices offer real-time analysis, for rapid insights, in fully scalable formats — from pocket to population scale — and the technology is being used in more than 100 countries worldwide. Founded in 2005 as a spin-out from the University of Oxford, the company now employs more than 600 people from multiple disciplines including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.
