Brand Manager, SteriPack Group (Maternity Cover, 9-month FTC)

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About the role

Kinneir Dufort (KD) is a world-class user-centred design and product development consultancy, serving clients in the medical and consumer health sectors. We are part of the SteriPack Group, which has global contract manufacturing facilities in Europe, US and Asia, as well as further design and product development capabilities in New Jersey and Colorado in the US.

We are looking for a Brand Manager to join the Group's central marketing team for a fixed-term basis to cover maternity leave. The role will be based out of KD's Bristol office, working alongside the Global Marketing Director (also Bristol-based) and a Marketing Manager based in Poland.

The role will be focused on supporting the overall Group business as we evolve our positioning and identity for our SteriPack, KD and HSD brands, driving brand awareness and engagement among our key target audiences, and engaging internal stakeholders. The Brand Manager will take responsibility for implementing and championing a new, cohesive brand identity across all marketing channels, establishing trust and credibility with clients and driving demand for our design and manufacturing services in the healthcare sector.

Your skills and experience

Whilst you do not need to meet all of these points, please ensure you meet the majority of them before making an application:

• Proven experience in B2B brand management, preferably in a global capacity and in a health-related sector
• A strong understanding of developing and executing brand communications.
• Exceptional communication, time management and project management skills.
• Ability to write, edit and proof-read engaging and consistent content for a B2B audience on LinkedIn and email, with some proficiency in Adobe and MailChimp (or similar software) preferred.
• Experience of working with and managing third-party agencies.
• Strong understanding and experience of digital marketing channels, social media platforms (particularly LinkedIn) and performance marketing.
• Experience of managing website development and build projects.
• Experience of working with and managing stakeholders in international teams, adapting to different cultures and markets.
• An engineering or science academic qualification or equivalent experience would be an advantage

The salary for this role is commensurate with experience. You will be asked to supply your salary expectations as part of your application.

Why work with us?

This is an exciting time to be joining the SteriPack Group business in a marketing function. We are honing our brand positioning and identity as we gear up for future growth, and this role offers plenty of opportunity for anyone looking to build on their current brand manager experience with a fresh set of challenges to get stuck into.

Our full-time contract is 38 hours per week. We offer flexible hybrid working policies in terms of both location and working hours. We operate availability hours so people can start at 9:30am if needed, lunch can be taken between 12:00pm to 2:00pm (in case you want to pop to the gym or attend an appointment), and we offer an early finish on Fridays if you have banked your contracted hours for the week.

Please get in touch with us if you are thinking of applying but would like more information about how our flexible working policy might work for you in this role and how the team work currently, or if you would like to speak to us about the possibility of part-time working.

We recognise that we are only as good as our people and we know how important it is to support our team:

We offer:

• Performance related company-wide bonus
• Flexible working approaches around our availability hours (which are Monday to Thursday 9:30am to 12:00pm & 2:00pm to 4:00pm and Friday 9:30 to 12:00pm) to help support your work-life balance
• Training and development opportunities which include regular 'lunch and learn' sessions and knowledge sharing via internal channels
• Private healthcare for you and your family as well as additional support via our Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced Maternity & Paternity leave
• A matched contributory pension scheme
• 25 days holiday per year
• Discounted First Bus monthly and annual passes (Bristol has a good Park & Ride network.)
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Free breakfast every Wednesday, plus free lunch once a month ahead of company meetings
• Secure in-building bike storage and shower
• Free eye tests
• Summer and Christmas parties, together with monthly post-work socials
• Enjoy our kitchen area that acts as the focal point for the whole team to get together for either morning coffee, lunch and afternoon tea

About us

The KD team within SteriPack are based in an iconic building in the vibrant city of Bristol. The characterful Grade 2 listed stone building was originally built as a sugar refinery around 1850. It's now completely refitted, and houses all of our staff plus our workshops, labs, the design studio, a Human Factors usability suite, as well as client meeting spaces. We are in a great central location: the local area is full of independent shops and eateries, and it is only a short walk up to Park Street, or over to the Harbourside and St Nick's Markets, both of which have regular street food markets.

Our values underpin everything we do.

• See possibility: we explore the potential in everyone & everything and embrace change to create opportunities.
• Make a difference: we want to part of the solution and have courage to act, even when it isn't easy.
• Stand together: we collaborate seamlessly, value difference and support each other.

We believe strongly in equality and fairness and try hard to do the right thing; we speak up for and support groups who are working to make a difference. Many of our team are also involved in, or run, events in their local communities, making a difference to those around them.

Across the whole of SteriPack, our teams are intelligent, hard-working, fun and collaborate brilliantly together to produce creative solutions. We work with some of the most interesting clients in the health sector, from the biggest global businesses to innovative scale-ups, with a particular focus on medical devices (including drug delivery, orthopaedics, surgery and diagnostics) and consumer health. We're a multi-disciplinary team straddling the earliest stages of product concepting through to manufacturing and end-market delivery. We have experts in research, design, human factors, digital UX, engineering, electronics & software, prototyping and manufacturing, all integrated across one Group company .

Do we sound like a good match for you?

If you'd like to apply or discuss the role, we'd love to hear from you. If you think you might be the right person for us but want an informal chat first then get in touch via joinus@kinneirdufort.com.

We look forward to hearing from you!

At KD we consciously embrace diversity and proactively encourage this with our recruitment process. We welcome applications to this position from anyone meeting the skills criteria, from any background.