The ideal candidate should have strong technical knowledge in the area of life science / genomic market and have demonstrated experience localizing marketing programs for related markets.
You are the key contact person of the marketing department for Japan and will be in close alignment with Japan commercial teams, regional marketing functions, and the global central marketing teams. You will be responsible for implementing the company’s global marketing and sales focused strategies, identifying regional business growth needs, developing and executing relevant local marketing plans to drive the company’s strategic business growth in the region.
Main duties include, but are not limited to:
Lead and execute Japan Regional Marketing growth strategies
- Use regional market knowledge and customer insights, identify the region’s market growth opportunities. Translate global marketing focuses to localized, integrated marketing programs to reach vital local customer segments, and achieve marketing funnel growth target.
- Follow the central marketing guideline, ensure the company’s core value, brand, ethos and tone of the voice are applied and consistent in Japan.
- Implement and maintain consistency of the central marketing SOPs, standards and measurement metrics in Japan.
- Work closely with other marketing teams and support central/regional marketing efforts as needed.
Manage and execute marketing funnel activities in Japan
- In consultation with regional commercial leaders and marketing teams, identify local demand-generation marketing campaigns to support regional business growth.
- Optimise global marketing campaigns for regional execution including: campaign channel structure, program design, tactical plan, and metrics.
- Work closely with the regional Marketing Operations and regional Events teams to create, manage, and execute regional marketing activities such as advertising, promotions, webinars, conferences and local advocators that support and complement the marketing campaign.
- Collaborate with regional events team to support the alignment of local events plan with business focuses and strategies. Provide in-country support to events planning and execution when needed.
- Manage the curation of defined global marketing materials and contents and their effective localization and distribution to customers in Japan.
- Monitor marketing performance and progress against strategic priorities and provide summarised reports to support regional and global strategy.
- Accurate regional marketing budget reporting and dashboards.
Support sales and key commercial channels
- Deliver global and regional-focused sales trainings and programmes as appropriate.
- Work with the central marketing team, provide local competitor information with a set of sales tools which help regional sales teams to position and sell the company’s product portfolio.
- Implement marketing channel partner initiatives at regional level.
- Supply approved slides and review presentations for sales & marketing activities.
What We're Looking For...
- Minimum BSc in biological sciences discipline; MSc/PhD or above preferred/
- Previous marketing experience within a life science and/or genomic sequencing industry.
- Have working knowledge of the life science/genomic market in Japan.
- Demonstrable experience in development of strategic marketing plans and execution of tactical marketing plans.
- Experience with marketing automation platforms/ SFDC.
- Experience in working with distributors, dealers and channel partners.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Excellent organisational/time-management skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities and expectations.
- Comfortable communicating with cross-functional teams and external agencies.
- Comfortable to travel 30-40% in Japan.
Preferred but not essential:
- Marketing or business qualification
- Sales experience in life science or other market
- Experience in using sales and marketing tools
If you are looking to utilise your skills to really make a difference to humankind, then consider joining our team and apply today!
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.
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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
- Minimum BSc in biological sciences discipline; MSc/PhD or above preferred
- Previous marketing experience within a life science and/or genomic sequencing industry
- Working knowledge of the life science/genomic market in Japan
- Demonstrable experience in development of strategic marketing plans and execution of tactical marketing plans
- Experience with marketing automation platforms/ SFDC
- Experience in working with distributors, dealers and channel partners
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Excellent organisational/time-management skills with the ability to manage conflicting priorities and expectations
- Comfortable communicating with cross-functional teams and external agencies
- Comfortable to travel 30-40% in Japan
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.
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