Marketing and Communications Manager

Reports to: Head of Marketing, Communications and Membership

Manages: Marketing Officer, Communications Officer

Salary range: £38,251 – £47,940

Location: London – EC4Y 8EE (Hybrid)

Contract: Permanent, full-time (31.5 hours per week)

Job Purpose

As BSR’s Marketing and Communications Manager you will deliver impactful communications and data-driven marketing plans that support our mission and vision.

You’ll work with teams to build strategic marketing and communications plans and manage a tactical calendar of multi-channel activity. All of which will drive engagement with clinical guidance, the latest science and research, quality education programmes, professional events and conferences.

You’ll focus on promoting member benefits to boost recruitment and retention across the adult, paediatric and adolescent rheumatology community. And you’ll help colleagues to tell compelling stories of our work, to celebrate the work of our members, to showcase rheumatology as a career and to highlight the issues of most importance to our members.

You’ll lead a talented team that manages the organisation’s communications channels, digital marketing, content strategy, and our people focused brand. Working closely with the Head of Marketing, Communications and Membership, you’ll play a key role in our data capability and insights, helping us to focus on impact led activity. You’ll also help colleagues to gather feedback and intelligence about our members and audiences, enabling us to continually improve our member offering.

This role requires a creative, pro-active and impact-oriented marcomms professional who excels in both planning and hands-on execution.

Application DeadlineMay 04, 2025DepartmentMarketing, Events & EducationEmployment TypePermanentLocationLondon (hybrid)Workplace typeHybridCompensation£38,251 - £47,940 / yearReporting ToHead of Marketing, Communications & Membership

Main responsibilities

Team leadership and development

• Lead and coach a team responsible for content creation, digital marketing, and membership campaigns
• Provide regular performance reviews and professional development opportunities for team members

Marketing and communications

• Work with teams to develop tailored marketing activity to promote products and services
• Track, analyse and report on the success/failures of our campaigns to aid understanding, efficiency and improvement
• Execute marketing campaigns across traditional, digital and social media channels plus experiential
• Manage the society’s website, overseeing content and performance and work with an agency for any development needs
• Create compelling messaging that resonates with key audiences, including prospective and current members and stakeholders
• Oversee the creation of engagement focused content across existing and emerging channels
• Be a brand ambassador for BSR externally and a brand champion internally, managing tone of voice, editorial and creative identity
• Manage digital productivity tools and solutions to ensure good process and capacity tracking.

Membership growth and engagement

• Execute digital-first membership acquisition strategies to expand the organisation’s member base and retention programmes to encourage loyalty
• Analyse membership trends and member feedback to improve member services, benefits, and offerings
• Manage membership data and segmentation to ensure effective targeting and personalised communication with members.

Management and impact

• Manage the marketing budget ensuring cost-effective allocation of resources
• Track the effectiveness of marketing campaigns and membership programs, adjusting strategies as needed to meet KPIs
•  Use analytics tools and member data to track the performance of marketing efforts and membership engagement

Person Specification

1. Experience in executing engagement focused marketing and communications
2. Experience of membership engagement and recruitment
3. Experience of platform management (web, emarketing, social media)
4. Strong skills in data analytics, insight and impact measurement
5. Excellent planning and project management skills
6. Ability to manage relationships internally and externally with stakeholders/suppliers at varying levels
7. Proven skills with digital tools, systems integrations and automations
8. Working knowledge of AI for improvement
9. Leadership and team management experience and ability to coach staff to reach their potential

Inclusion and Diversity statement

BSR is committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity in our workforce. We are actively trying to increase the diversity of our staff team. We try to

reduce as many barriers as we can for those with a disability. We know that everyone is an individual, so please always tell us what we can do to support you.

We welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including those from minoritised communities, and those with a disability, to better

reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.

Our values are:

• Celebratory – we celebrate the achievements in rheumatology
• Inclusive – we support everyone in the rheumatology community
• Sustainable – we work to reduce the impact of our activities on the environment
• Leading – we use our profile to drive change and support those working in the specialty
• Collaborative – we always seek to work with others to have a greater impact

Benefits of working at BSR

We offer a wide range of benefits, most of which start from day one of joining us. Our benefits fall into four main areas: Wellbeing, Time- based, Learning and development, and Financial. Just some of them include:

Wellbeing:

• Free period products in our office
• Free flu vaccinations
• Mental Health First Aiders
• BUPA healthcare scheme- we offer a cash plan, which you can add children or partners to
• Employee Assistance Programme. This is a free, confidential counselling service to all staff, as well as a general advice service provided by BUPA
• WeCare offers access to a 24/7 virtual GP, as well as a mental health support service, a get fit programme and an online portal with lots of helpful resources
• Our enhanced sick pay offer is: - Up to two years’ service: 4 weeks full pay and 4 weeks half pay
  • After two years’ service: 12 weeks full pay and 12 weeks half pay
• We work in a social environment with a range of activities, both virtual and in person, run by our Social Squad. This includes an organisation- wide volunteering day.

Time-based:

• We offer 30 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays
• All staff can request sabbaticals at any point, which are considered on a case-by-case basis
• We also offer an extra day for moving house
• Bank holiday swaps- you can swap a bank holiday day for another day’s leave (entitlement remains 1:1 days)
• We’re a 4 day week employer, which at BSR means working your fulltime hours (31.5 each week) over 5 days

Learning and development

We will help you develop your career by supporting your personal development and encouraging internal progression. This includes recognising individuals’ achievements through our internal staff awards. We offer a huge range of learning opportunities, both in-house and externally. This includes a thorough induction programme when you join us, as well as development opportunities aimed at line managers, and wellbeing-based learning sessions. And if professional membership is a required part of your role, we’ll cover the cost of that.

Financial:

• We offer a performance related pay incentive scheme
• Income protection scheme
• You’ll be enrolled on our pensions scheme with Aegon (via Second Sight). Our current pension match is 5% employer contribution if you contribute 4% (9% contribution in total).
• Our life assurance policy pays three times your basic salary
• Interest free season ticket loans
• Ride-to-work scheme
• Interest-free loan scheme
• We also provide generous enhancements within our parental and family leave policies. - Our maternity/shared parental/adoption offer is 6 weeks at full pay, 33 weeks at half pay, followed by 13 weeks at the statutory rate.
  • Our paternity leave offer is 6 weeks at full pay.

About British Society for Rheumatology

The British Society for Rheumatology is a membership organisation which brings together expertise from across the rheumatology profession, harnessing a wide variety of experience and skills to ensure we are supporting our members to the very best of our combined ability. Involving patients and carers at every step, we aim to ensure that physicians and clinicians are equipped to provide high-quality care.

We’re a small organisation with huge ambitions. If you’re looking for an organisation with a one-team feel where you’ll be able to develop professionally and have the autonomy to run with your ideas, we might be a match for you.

We have a great benefits package, and wellbeing is a key part of our People and Culture strategy.  We're a 4.5 day week employer, which means full time is 31.5 hours per week, spread over 5 days. We work in a hybrid way, coming together as a whole staff team once a month, and then deciding at team level when and how to work together most effectively in person.

We’re proud to have won several HR awards, to be a Living Wage accredited employer, and are committed to encouraging inclusion, equality and diversity in our workforce. Our values guide our decision making and our behaviours, and we’ll ask you about these at interview stage.

You can find out more about each of the individuals who make up our staff team as well as

read more about our vision, mission and values .

Make sure you've had a read through of our ' . We welcome approaches from individuals from underrepresented groups, including those from minoritised communities, and those with a disability, to better reflect the community we serve and help broaden our perspectives.