Overview
Join to apply for the Product Marketing Lead (Life Sciences) role at Cancer Research UK (CRUK).
Internally this role is known as Scientific Product Marketing Lead.
Location: Stratford, London – Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office). Salary: £73,000 - £80,000 plus benefits. Contract: Permanent. Hours: Full time 35 hours per week (flexible working requests such as compressed hours can be considered depending on business need).
Closing date: 15 September 2025 23:55. This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found. If you need adjustments during the recruitment process, contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400.
Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply. CRUK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.
Seniority level: Mid-Senior level. Employment type: Full-time. Job function: Marketing and Sales. Industry: Non-profit Organizations.
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We have a new opportunity for an experienced, collaborative and results-driven individual to join our CancerTools.Org team as a Scientific Product Marketing Lead. You will be responsible for expanding our customer base, product awareness and sales to academic researchers, and increasing commercial licenses to industry sectors.
What will I be doing?
* Accountable for global scientific marketing, with line management and responsibility for a team of Product Marketing Managers across key cancer areas.
* Provide strategic direction to the product marketing team to develop and manage multichannel, data-driven marketing campaigns across cancer areas to deliver on revenue targets, KPIs, within budget.
* Responsible for strategic marketing and content strategy to optimise scientific content and campaigns across cancer research areas for Marketing qualified leads (MQL) and revenue generation (marketing collateral, case studies, resources, webinars, exhibitions, third-party advertising, email campaigns, SEO and PPC).
* Monitor global competitive developments across cancer fields to revise and direct product strategy and positioning.
* Engage with Key Opinion Leaders, partners, existing customers in academia and industry to explore growth opportunities, inform strategy and cancer portfolio improvements.
* Steer product lifecycle management, new product launches, pricing strategy, e-commerce optimisation and promotional activities.
* Expand and grow qualified customer databases for prioritised cancer research areas.
* Identify market opportunities for product additions and improvements for company-wide communication.
* Report KPIs, MQLs and revenue to senior leadership.
What are you looking for?
* Extensive experience in senior product marketing or senior marketing roles in the life science reagents industry (knowledge to include antibodies, cell lines, cell culture).
* Exemplary communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Success in increasing global market share in life science product portfolios through targeted marketing strategy.
* Line management experience.
* Experience in setting, monitoring and delivering on marketing KPIs, sales targets and communicating to management.
* Full knowledge of the marketing channel mix, including digital channel marketing (SEO, PPC, Email, Web, Social, Third Party).
* PhD in Life Science or BSc/MSc with equivalent commercial research experience (cancer-related fields preferred).
* Knowledge or experience of cancer/oncology products and tumour models (Cell lines, PDX, Organoids) is beneficial but not essential.
What you will gain and how to apply
We create a working environment that supports wellbeing and offer a generous benefits package, development opportunities and tools to improve work-life balance. You can explore our benefits on our careers page. We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required, but we won’t view them until invited to interview. Please complete the work history section of the online application for fair assessment.
Owing to the nature of this position, offers are subject to a satisfactory basic DBS check (where applicable). For more information, contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk.
We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, particularly those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are under-represented. If you have any adjustments or concerns, please contact recruitment@cancer.org.uk or 020 3469 8400.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone belongs, benefits from, and participates in our work.
About The Team
CancerTools.Org, the research tools arm of CRUK, is a non-profit global community of cancer researchers, academic institutes and professional societies. It has a long history of providing reagents to both academic and for-profit laboratories worldwide, with a mission to accelerate cancer research by making tools widely and easily available.
You'll lead a small team (c4) of Product and Senior Product Managers, guiding MQLs and driving growth to meet sales targets for leading cancer product portfolios.
Additional information
Interview dates: 1st stage on 1 and 3 October; 2nd stage on 10 and 13 October 2025. Recruitment process includes a screening call, competency-based interview via Teams, and a final in-person interview with a presentation/task.
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