
Business Development, Digital Marketing, Commercial Intelligence Associate
CF
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Turn CF's intellectual output into compelling, audience-ready content that lands with pharma commercial teams, market access functions, and PE deal teams.
- Own the content calendar, anchored in CF's service lines and priority themes such as innovation uptake and obesity
- Partner with practice leaders to develop thought leadership, case studies and sector commentary and calibrate it for the right audiences including medical affairs, market access and commercial functions
- Drive pre- and post-event content around CF's conference participation to maximise every moment of visibility
- Own CF's digital presence and ensure our distinctiveness is visible, searchable, and immediately legible to the people who matter most.
- Lead ongoing optimisation of practice-level website content, keeping CF's differentiating strengths front and centre
- Monitor how CF is found, what converts, and where gaps exist relative to competitors
- Stay ahead of the curve on GEO optimisation as AI-driven discovery becomes an increasingly important selection channel
- Manage CF's external channels with strategic intent, turning every publication, award, and major project into a moment of market presence.
- Plan and schedule content, supporting leadership to show up consistently and credibly
- Track external mentions and identify opportunities to amplify and engage
- Ensure every channel reflects CF's positioning with purpose
- Maintain a forward calendar of priority conferences across pharma, biotech, MedTech and healthcare investment
- Coordinate promotion, on-site visibility and post-event follow-up
- Identify speaking platforms and thought leadership slots that build CF's profile in target segments
- Build a systematic, proactive view of where CF should be competing and make sure nothing slips through the net.
- Monitor CRM at an organisational and individual client level across key targets
- Track relevant RFP portals across life sciences and health investing including NHS, pharma frameworks, NICE, NHSE and MHRA-adjacent and use themes to inform future positioning
- Maintain visibility of existing MSAs and support practice leads to leverage them
- Act as the connective tissue between s practices, ensuring our commercial and marketing activity is joined up, not siloed.
- Align messaging, content and campaigns across Life Sciences and Health Investing
- Coordinate shared activities where audiences overlap, from PE-backed pharma services to health tech and hospital groups
Requirements
- Capability in digital marketing, SEO/GEO and content-driven lead generation
- Practical understanding of LinkedIn as a professional BD and thought leadership platform
- Working knowledge of the life sciences commercial environment — pharma, biotech or MedTech — including how market access, commercial and policy functions operate
- Capable of interpreting complex, evidence-driven analytical and technical information and transforming it into straightforward materials for external audiences
- Highly organised and confident to manage multiple workstreams and senior stakeholder relationships
- Clear, concise written communication in a professional services register
- Experience in a consultancy, professional services or knowledge-led organisation (desirable)
- Familiarity with health sector procurement, NHS frameworks, or life sciences RFP processes (desirable)
- Understanding of the PE/health investing landscape and how BD operates in that environment (desirable)
- Experience with analytics tools (Google Analytics, LinkedIn Insights), CMS platforms and CRM systems (desirable)
- Interest in health policy, value-based healthcare, or life science innovation (desirable)
Benefits
- - We offer a competitive and flexible reward package designed to support you at work and beyond it. You will benefit from a generous holiday allowance that grows with your career (minimum of 25 days), a strong employer pension contribution, and the freedom to tailor benefits to suit your lifestyle, from wellbeing and fitness to financial protection.
- - We are committed to supporting life’s important moments, with enhanced family leave, income and life protection, and access to practical benefits that make everyday life easier, such as interest-free loans and travel support.
- - Your wellbeing matters to us. You will have access to a comprehensive wellbeing and employee assistance programme, preventative health benefits, and initiatives that support an active, balanced way of working.
- - Above all, we invest in our people; offering flexibility, security, and benefits that grow with you, so you can do your best work while building a sustainable and rewarding career.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
digital marketingSEOGEOcontent-driven lead generationanalytics toolsGoogle AnalyticsLinkedIn InsightsCMS platformsCRM systemshealth policy
Soft Skills
highly organisedclear written communicationconfidence in managing multiple workstreamsstakeholder relationship managementability to interpret complex informationcollaborationstrategic thinkingproactive approachcontent planningevent coordination