Marketing Manager - Sponsorship

We are now seeking an intelligent, proactive and experienced Sponsorship Marketing Manager to join our team.  This is a key opportunity for an ambitious professional with a strong grasp of marketing fundamentals, lead generation and digital marketing to stretch their entrepreneurial and leadership side. This role will be responsible for designing and executing high-impact sponsorship marketing campaigns, generating quality sponsorship leads and working in partnership with the sponsorship team to nurture and convert them.

The role will in part include working on our AI Drug Discovery & Development (AIDDD) Summit.  AIDDD is a flagship event in Kisaco Research’s Healthcare portfolio, representing one of the fastest-growing communities in pharma innovation. Since its launch in 2022, AIDDD has evolved from a niche meeting on AI in early discovery into a global summit covering the entire R&D value chain, from biology and chemistry through to process development and clinical trials. The 2025 Boston edition hosted over 500 attendees and 100+ speakers, making it the largest and most influential AIDDD to date. This continued growth reflects the sector’s accelerating adoption of AI and the summit’s unique position as a trusted, neutral forum uniting scientists, technologists, and R&D leaders across the pharmaceutical ecosystem.

Candidates need to be hands-on, enthusiastic, ambitious, adaptable, and quick-thinking, with a strong work ethic. This role will work across several fast-scaling events, and will build out both an ABM and wider strategy for key partnership segments. In this fast-paced environment, strong interpersonal skills, a positive and proactive attitude is a must. Along with a background in event campaign delivery/Saas marketing, copywriting, digital marketing, and social media engagement.

Why Join Us?

🎤 Deliver world class campaigns: Lead integrated marketing strategies for high profile conferences and expos that attract Fortune 500s, scale-ups, and investors.

🚀 Drive measurable impact: Own sponsor acquisition campaigns, ensuring marketing activity converts to registrations, partnerships, and long-term engagement.

🧠 Sharpen your expertise: Access training, coaching, and a personal learning budget to stay at the cutting edge of digital marketing, brand strategy and event promotion.

🤝 Collaborate & innovate: Partner with content and commercial teams to craft compelling value propositions and marketing campaigns that exceed audience expectations.

🌱 Grow with us: Join a company with ambitious expansion plans and a clear career path for marketing leaders driving growth.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

·        Response Analysis & Strategy Formulation

·        Lead Generation: Building and researching a relevant lead database through partnerships and sourcing; creating dynamic campaigns to attract and begin conversations with potential members and clients.

·        Lead Conversion: work with the sponsorship team on nurturing campaigns that will warm and convert leads down the funnel

·        Event Budget Management: Creating a budget for the partnership marketing campaign, with clear ROI expectations from the spend.

·        Stakeholder & Media Partnership Management: Continually source and maintain positive relations with partners for innovative ways to increase measurable value for the business.

·        Site management / SEO/PPC & SEM: Create engaging sponsorship marketing messaging and materials, to improve inbound traffic to the sponsorship pages, alongside creating, monitoring and optimizing PPC campaigns.

·        Database Management: Utilise CRM (Salesforce and Hubspot) to generate list build strategies and for reporting.

·        Cross department collaboration: Work closely with internal teams, plus external web developers, designers, and other external teams.

·        Copywriting and Content: Create dynamic and exciting copy for all marketing material, with creative approach to design

·        Social Media & Community: Maintain Customer Engagement online through LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter (and others) with interesting topic discussions, active participation in conversations online, as well as repurposing and promoting content.

·        Line Management & Leadership: No current direct reports, but there is an expectation to contribute to team training schedule and oversee campaign performance and lead on strategy with the production department.

QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

·        Experience in Event or Saas marketing.

·        Great communication skills both written and verbal.

·        Ability to write engaging, customer-centric marketing copy across several industries

·        Highly organized, methodical, and process-driven, High level of attention to detail

·        Expert in successful negotiation tactics with senior media individuals

·        Track record of delivering campaigns/ projects to deadline and budget

·        Results-driven – focused on achieving growth plans, with a solutions-focused approach to getting there

·        Confidence in Marketing strategy, growth planning and multi-channel execution

·        Very strong interpersonal skills - ability to engage and influence a range of people and characters

·        English Fluency; UK based essential

What You’ll Get

💼 Career progression based on performance, not tenure

📚 £100 personal development budget & £200 personal wellness budget

🏡 Hybrid working (3 days in office, 2 from home)

💻 Access to the best tech including Modash, SalesNav, Pitchbook, Zoom Info and Ingo. Plus the opportunity to explore the latest tech, including emerging AI agents.

🌴25 days of annual leave (in addition to bank holidays) + an additional day off for your birthday each year. 1 extra day of annual leave per year up to 30 days total.

💚 Regular social and charitable events and annual Summer & Christmas parties.

🌍 A role with purpose – helping shape the future of key global industries

📈 Commercial acumen: Develop a strong understanding of how content, audiences and sponsors drive revenue.

🌱 Professional confidence: Develop resilience, adaptability, and decision-making in a fast-paced environment.