Head of Marketing

Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior LevelFull time

Posted 5 days ago

Job Summary

Own and drive Qkine’s global marketing strategy and multi-channel campaigns, lead technical content and product marketing, and collaborate with Commercial, Product Management, and R&D to accelerate growth and maintain scientific credibility.

  • Define and execute integrated marketing plans aligned with commercial priorities
  • Develop technically credible content and messaging for life-science audiences
  • Lead ABM, lead generation, and cross-functional collaboration to support pipeline and product adoption

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and own Qkine’s global marketing strategy in collaboration with the Commercial Director, ensuring alignment with commercial priorities, product strategy and growth objectives.
  • Build and manage annual and quarterly marketing plans and a structured campaign calendar covering themes, content priorities, product launches, events, digital activity, organic social, lead generation, distributor engagement and nurture activity.
  • Lead end-to-end multi-channel campaigns across email, paid media, organic social, website, events, webinars and nurture workflows, ensuring clear audience targeting, strong technical relevance and compelling content offers.
  • Own Qkine’s technical content strategy, creating and overseeing scientifically credible, application-led content for life-science audiences, including gated resources, educational content, product materials, application notes, white papers, video concepts, campaign assets and sales enablement materials.
  • Translate complex scientific and product information into clear, accurate and commercially compelling messaging, ensuring all market-facing communications reinforce Qkine’s scientific credibility, quality standards and differentiated value proposition.
  • Own product marketing across Qkine’s portfolio, including messaging, positioning, value propositions, product launches, product pages, sales materials, distributor communications and portfolio architecture.
  • Work with Commercial, Product Management, R&D and Technical Support to understand target audiences, customer pain points, buying drivers, product strengths, competitive positioning and content opportunities, using market and customer insight to refine go-to-market activity.
  • Maintain and develop Qkine’s brand identity, tone and visual consistency across internal and external touchpoints, ensuring the portfolio is clearly positioned for academic, biotech, pharma and cell therapy audiences.
  • Design and execute Account-Based Marketing (ABM) and lead-generation activity for strategic accounts, high-value academic labs and enterprise biotech/pharma prospects, working closely with BD/Sales to support prospecting and pipeline development.
  • Provide Sales/BD and Customer Success with targeted technical and commercial collateral, value propositions, campaign tools and enablement materials that improve customer engagement, conversion, retention and product adoption.

Requirements

  • Degree in Marketing/Business or CIM (or similar) Qualification.
  • GCSE English and Maths, grade ‘C’ or above, or equivalent.
  • Experience in marketing, product marketing or scientific content marketing within life sciences, reagents or cell culture.
  • Background, ideally with a degree, PhD or equivalent experience in a relevant life-science discipline.
  • Proven ability to create technically credible marketing content for scientific audiences.
  • Experience developing and delivering integrated, multi-channel marketing campaigns.
  • Experience of ABM, lead generation and marketing activity that supports sales pipeline development.
  • Experience managing marketing budgets and external agencies, freelancers or suppliers.
  • Experience using customer, market and competitor insight to inform positioning, messaging and go-to-market activity.
  • Experience developing audience segmentation, buyer personas and customer journeys.

Preferred

  • Experience marketing growth factors and cytokines, cell culture reagents, organoid tools, stem cell products or similar life-science products.
  • Experience of using Zoho and HubSpot CRM.

Benefits

  • free private medical scheme to all our employees
  • attractive employee share option scheme
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Qkine

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Qkine manufactures high-quality and novel growth factors, supporting scientists in developing and scaling stem cell, organoid, cellular agriculture and regenerative medicine applications. We are also developing new growth factor technologies to enable emerging fields such as cultured meat and 3D cell culture. All Qkine high purity animal-free growth factor proteins are manufactured at our facility in Cambridge, UK . Extensive quality testing is conducted on every lot to guarantee reproducibility.Based on proprietary technology developed in the laboratory of Dr Marko Hyvönen, senior group leader at the University of Cambridge, Qkine manufactures highly pure bioactive recombinant proteins. Along with setting a new benchmark for protein purity, Qkine uses protein engineering techniques to tackle fundamental biological and scalability challenges that are holding back the stem cell and regenerative medicine sector; for example, recent projects have included development of optimised R-spondins to replace conditioned media for organoid culture. To give stem cell scientists peace of mind, Qkine manufactures its proteins in a dedicated animal-derived component-free (ADCF) laboratory under an ISO 9001:2015. We define rigorous quality criteria, with detailed data. Bulk orders and stock reservations are available.For more information please visit www.qkine.com, or contact the Qkine Team at info@qkine.com

Founded in 2016
Cambridge, England, GBR
35 employees (4 in marketing)
0% recommend to a friend

Salaries

Head of Marketing median pay in the United Kingdom

£70K/yr

Most earn £63K to £83K. Based on 40 salaries, including bonus and equity.

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Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
3 (9% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
1

Funding

Total Funding
$7.9M
Last Raise
$5.2M
Series B, 4 years ago

Funding History

  • Dec 2022
    Series B • $5.2M
  • Jun 2020
    Series A • $1.9M
  • Jun 2019
    Seed • $696.5K

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
13.4K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$1.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
33.1%
Direct
28.7%
Referral
20.1%
Social
7.3%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~35

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