Marketing Communications Coordinator

Job Title: Marketing Communications Coordinator

Reports to: Director, Strategic Marketing & Communications

Hiring Organization: Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) Inc.

Address: Center for Proteomics, 174 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 USA

*** The Marketing Communications Coordinator will be based in Piscataway, NJ. We welcome applications directly from candidates only, please.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

Event Marketing

- Perform logistics planning, coordination and support of US-based customer meetings, conferences and trade show events, including vendor relations, procurement and working with finance for invoice payment management

- Periodically attend conferences, perform follow-up or surveying as needed

Digital Marketing Communications

- Content development support. Collaborate with colleagues to develop and deliver engaging content including video for social channels, CCDC communities and to support the thought leadership development program

- Manage, measure performance and optimize social content and postings to grow relevant fan base for each channel

- Work with Director of Marketing to implement branding updates and to develop outbound content

- Enthusiastically participate in the development and execution of any number of projects designed to develop the organization's reputation, reach and influence

Marketing Automation and Web Support

- Become a Microsoft Dynamics CRM champion and develop workflows and manage relevant assets tied to user engagement

- Responsible for managing the asset library in the CRM campaign and content management system

- Responsible for executing content updates across the websites and the Event and Editorial Calendar in Outlook

What You Need for this Position

Your education:

- Bachelor’s degree

- Marketing, Communications or Journalism as a major is a plus. Alternatively, a relevant science major with marketing qualifications added post-graduation.

Your experience:

- Candidates must have a minimum of three years of marketing experience working for a scientific-oriented organization

- You have worked with a CRM and Marketing Automation tools and are proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint versions 2010 or 2013

- You routinely write copy for multiple media channels and formats with an excellent command of grammar, style, punctuation and proof reading skills.

- Understanding of marketing communications, including social media for business are necessary

Your skills:

- You have a knack for conveying scientific messages in engaging, clear and simple language with attention to detail.

- You exhibit strong project management skills, are highly organized, detail-oriented, self-disciplined, and enjoy managing multiple projects simultaneously.

About Us:

The CCDC supports structural chemistry research through its Cambridge Structural Database (CSD), established in 1965 and still the world’s only comprehensive and fully curated database containing more than 750,000 small molecule crystal structures. Over 1,200 academic institutions, all of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies, and research operations worldwide use the CSD database and CCDC knowledge-based tools to support receptor modelling, ligand design, docking, lead optimization and formulation studies.

The CCDC is a fully independent research institution, and a registered charity supported entirely through annual contributions received for the Cambridge Structural Database System and industry-leading software such as GOLD and Relibase+. In addition, scientific researchers at the CCDC have a strong record of accomplishment exhibited through more than 700 peer-reviewed publications, attracting more than 18,000 citations.

Based in Piscataway on the Busch campus of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, the CCDC is committed to staff development and training. We are also proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. In compliance with federal law, all hired persons must complete an employment eligibility form to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States.