Senior Campaign Manager
Location: Oxford, UK
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 analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths.
The Opportunity
We're looking for a Campaign Manager to join our Global Campaigns team and lead the planning, delivery, measurement and optimisation of integrated marketing campaigns for non-human applications and scientific customer audiences.
This is a hands-on campaign role for someone who can turn business priorities and customer insight into clear, measurable, multi-channel campaigns. You will help ensure relevant, engaging and informative materials reach existing and potential customers in a coherent way, supporting lead generation, nurture programmes and the growth of Oxford Nanopore product utilisation.
The Role
Reporting to the Associate Director, Global Campaigns, you will manage assigned campaigns from brief through launch, optimisation and post-campaign review. You will work cross-functionally with Strategic Marketing, Content/Communications, Digital, Marketing Technology, Events, Regional Marketing, Product Marketing, Commercial teams and external partners to deliver campaigns that are audience-focused, on-brand and measurable.
You will need strong communication, project management and stakeholder skills, alongside the ability to distil complex scientific and technical concepts into clear campaign narratives. You will also use data and insight to understand what is working, improve performance and apply learnings to future activity.
Key responsibilities:
- Plan, deliver and optimise integrated global marketing campaigns for non-human applications and customer audiences.
- Translate business priorities, customer insight and technical information into clear campaign briefs, messaging, audience journeys, channel plans and measures of success.
- Coordinate cross-functional delivery across content, communications, digital, email, web, events, regional marketing, product and commercial teams.
- Work with Marketing Technology and Business Systems colleagues to support targeting, automation, reporting and campaign measurement.
- Support the planning, scheduling and review of email, nurture, digital and third-party marketing activity within assigned campaigns.
- Use analytics, testing and post-campaign learning to improve campaign effectiveness over time.
- Ensure campaign outputs are aligned to Oxford Nanopore's brand, tone of voice, quality standards and customer-focused approach.
- Manage campaign timelines, risks, dependencies and, where required, discrete budgets, agencies or third-party channel activity.
Requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, life sciences or a related discipline.
- Significant experience planning and delivering integrated, multi-channel B2B marketing campaigns.
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders to deliver campaigns against agreed objectives, timelines and measures of success.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines and dependencies at once.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt tone to audience and platform.
- A confident storyteller who can distil complex scientific or technical concepts into clear, engaging campaign content.
- Comfort using campaign data, reporting and insight to optimise activity and inform future plans.
- Experience with CRM, marketing automation, email, digital and/or campaign reporting tools.
- Collaborative, proactive and accountable, with strong attention to detail and a customer-focused mindset.
- Ideally, previous experience in life sciences, genomics, biotech or another technical/scientific sector, with an understanding of scientific audiences and non-human or applied-market applications.
Why join us?
We offer outstanding benefits to include an attractive bonus, generous pension contributions, private healthcare and an excellent starting salary. Based within beautiful, landscaped surroundings with tree-lined walks, water features and a lake, all of which make for a wonderful working environment.
If you are looking to utilise your skills to make a difference to humankind and help expand access to biological insight, 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.
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
- Degree or equivalent experience in marketing, communications, life sciences or related discipline
- Significant experience planning and delivering integrated, multi-channel B2B marketing campaigns
- Experience working with multiple stakeholders to deliver campaigns against objectives, timelines and measures of success
- Strong project management skills, able to manage multiple projects, deadlines and dependencies
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, adaptable tone for audience and platform
- Ability to distil complex scientific or technical concepts into clear, engaging campaign content
- Comfort using campaign data, reporting and insight to optimise activity
- Experience with CRM, marketing automation, email, digital and/or campaign reporting tools
- Collaborative, proactive, accountable with strong attention to detail and customer-focused mindset
- Previous experience in life sciences, genomics, biotech or another technical/scientific sector
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.
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Insights
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.
