Marketing Associate
PACKGENE BIOTECH INC
Summary
The Marketing Associate will assist with ensuring PackGene's day-to-day marketing activities run efficiently, including coordinating industry conferences and executing digital campaigns, creating content, and keeping projects, vendors, and deliverables on track. As an entry-level opportunity, you'll partner closely with the lead of PackGene's marketing functions and take ownership of defined projects and deliverables.
Job description
Conferences & Events
- Manage day-to-day logistics for industry conferences, trade shows, scientific meetings, and other events
- Coordinate registrations, booth requirements, sponsorship deliverables, shipping schedules, promotional materials, and vendor deadlines
- Maintain event planning trackers, expense and budget records, and execution checklists
- Communicate proactively with event organizers, vendors, designers, and internal teams to keep preparations on schedule
- Prepare event materials and contribute to pre-event promotion and post-event lead follow-up
- Attend select conferences and trade shows as needed
Email, Digital Campaigns & Content
- Build, test, and deploy email marketing campaigns
- Draft and edit email copy, social media posts, event promotions, and other short-form marketing content
- Manage campaign schedules and keep content, design, review, and deployment deadlines on track
- Maintain mailing lists and support contact-data updates, audience targeting, and lead-nurture activities
- Prepare and coordinate assets across email, web, LinkedIn, and other relevant channels
- Report on campaign performance and help identify opportunities to improve future campaigns
Marketing Operations & Sales Support
- Maintain the overall marketing calendar, track key deliverables, and proactively flag scheduling conflicts or missed deadlines
- Manage day-to-day timelines with designers, printers, agencies, promotional-item suppliers, and other marketing vendors
- Maintain our library of marketing collateral, templates, presentations, and digital assets
- Manage the review and approval of flyers, advertisements, presentations, sales resources, and other customer-facing materials
- Ensure the business development team has access to current campaign materials, event resources, presentations, and sales collateral
- Help improve marketing trackers, templates, workflows, and processes as the department grows
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in marketing, communications, business, life sciences, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
- 0–2 years of relevant experience; recent graduates encouraged to apply
- Demonstrated ability to organize a project with multiple moving parts and real deadlines
- Clear, careful written communication and strong proofreading skills
- Proactive approach to work: identify next steps, follow up on open items, keep stakeholders informed
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and adapt when schedules or requirements change
- Comfort using PowerPoint and Excel and learning new tools and platforms
- Willingness to travel for select conferences and industry events
- Comfort collaborating with colleagues across time zones, including teams in the United States and China
- Up to 10-20% travel to support conferences and events
Company overview
PackGene Biotech Inc. is a world-leading contract research organization (CRO) and contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) specializing in gene therapy solutions. Founded in 2014 in Massachusetts, USA, the company has established itself as a global leader in AAV vector packaging and gene therapy manufacturing services. With offices in Boston, Houston, and Zurich, PackGene partners with over 1,000 biopharmaceutical companies and research institutions across more than 30 countries. The company's mission, 'Make Gene Therapy Affordable,' drives its comprehensive service offerings that span from early-stage research and development to GMP manufacturing for clinical trials. PackGene provides end-to-end solutions including AAV and lentivirus vector production, mRNA services, plasmid DNA manufacturing, analytical testing, and novel capsid engineering. The company has developed proprietary technology platforms like the π-Alpha 293 AAV High-yield Platform, which amplifies AAV production up to 10-fold, and operates with a focus on supporting gene therapy programs from discovery through IND studies. With 201-500 employees and significant venture capital backing, PackGene is expanding its capabilities with new GMP facilities to advance the accessibility and affordability of life-changing gene therapies worldwide.