At Oxford Global, our passion is driving innovation, expertise, and partnership within the life sciences industry. We are on a mission to empower professionals to accelerate research and achieve impactful results through cutting-edge, curated events, industry insights, and educational resources. Join us in shaping the future of the life sciences industry.
We are looking for an experienced and creative Brand and Content Executive to join our dynamic marketing function. You will work as part of our Brand and Content team which is responsible for turning the brand vision, mission and values into compelling customer focused copy that fuels our multi-channel campaigns.
You’ll be a creative individual with great copywriting skills and the ability to develop messaging which is on brand and resonates with our audiences, you’ll then be comfortable with optimising this for our channels incl. web, email and social as part of a year round engagement strategy.
Role Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the creation of copy and content to support campaign requirements for the brands you work on, ensuring they are on brand, customer focused and benefit led. Using this content first approach to scale consistent messaging across all channels including email, social, web, paid etc.,
- Responsible for asset creation and delivery to support campaign activities with a mix of self-creation (Canva etc) and working with a designer. Ensuring all assets are on brand and lead to increased customer engagement.
- Lead on the execution of partnership marketing including media, sponsors and speakers, ensuring that activities are tracked and executed to time and quality.
- Responsible for the updating and maintenance of our websites from a content perspective. Working with the team and technical web support to ensure that copy and assets support improved User Experience as evidenced by increased engagement.
- Execution of all social media marketing channels including providing a plan around key milestones and maximising in-house content for added engagement and delivering growth in-line with benchmarks and KPIs.
- You will be a self-starter who enjoys the pace of a dynamic work environment, you will play a key role in executing our marketing activities and deliverables to deliver portfolio and business outcomes.
We are looking for someone with:
- Our marketing team and business more broadly is a matrix – it will be important you’re a self-starter, someone adept at working on multiple projects at the same time and have an excellent communications style.
- You will have a proven track record of running successful and segmented campaigns.
- Great copywriting skills, able to produce customer focused benefit led creative copy.
- Good experience of current marketing technologies to maximise marketing effectiveness.
- Good understanding of email campaigns and how to segment for automation.
- Understanding of content marketing and the role it plays in brand building and year-round engagement.
- Experience of working in a matrix, with good stakeholder management.
- Excellent communication skills and attention to detail.
- B2B events experience a bonus but not requirement.
- Self-starter who enjoys a busy and dynamic environment.
- Ability to multi-task and ensure competing priorities are delivered to time and quality.
More about the role:
- Salary: £26,000 - £30,000 per annum
- Location: All our roles are hybrid (a mix of remote and in office). Our offices are located on the Botley Road in Oxford, with shops/restaurants within walking distance and easy access into Oxford City Centre.
- Job Type: Full time (37.5 hours a week)
Top perks:
As part of the team at OG, you’ll enjoy:
- Flexible/home/remote working – Flexible working and 2 days remote working a week (after induction/on-boarding)
- Holidays – Increment of holiday from 24 days up to 28 days per annum plus bank holidays
- One day of paid Birthday leave (on successful completion of probation)
- Travel Schemes - Save on the purchase of a new bike or electric car, Public Transport Loan Scheme
- Healthcare – 10 days full pay sick leave (additional 5 discretionary), reimbursement of eye tests, free flu jabs
- Enhanced company maternity & paternity pay (eligibility based on length of service)
- Wellness Programme – Company Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Time to Talk sessions, wellness projects and other initiatives
- Plus: Frequent social activities, free onsite parking, free office food & drink, external training
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £26,000.00-£30,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company events
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Flexitime
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sabbatical
- Sick pay
- Work from home
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Oxford OX2 0JJ: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Will you now or in the future require sponsorship for employment visa status?
- If possible, please let us know your salary expectations & if this is in line with our salary band. You can find our salary banding for this role in the job advert.
- Please provide an overview of why you are applying for our role, and how your previous skills/experience are a good match for the requirements laid out in the job description
- The first stage in the interview process is an initial screening call. For successful candidates, the 2nd stage interview will involve preparing and presenting a short presentation (outlining a high level 20 week campaign approach). We will provide further details closer to the time. Are you comfortable with this?
Experience:
- Marketing: 2 years (preferred)
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Oxford OX2 0JJ
