United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Social Marketing Manager

About Us:

Millions of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable women trust Marie Stopes International to provide them with quality sexual and reproductive health care. We have been delivering contraception, safe abortion, and mother and baby care for over thirty years and work in 42 countries around the world. By providing high quality services where they are needed the most, we prevent unnecessary deaths and make a sustainable impact on the lives of millions of people every year.

The primary responsibility of this role is to further MSI’s Goal: The Prevention of Unwanted Births and its mission of ensuring the individual’s right to**: Children by Choice Not Chance.**

The Role:

We are seeking an experienced Social Marketing Manager to join the exciting expansion of our Marketing function. Reporting to the Commercial Director, the Social Marketing Director is responsible for leading the MSI partnership on developing commercially-oriented social marketing strategies to ensure the success and sustainability, ultimately to double the number of MSI enabled safe medical abortions to 6M women by 2020 and to be financially self-supporting with potential to become a recognised surplus driver.

This role will spend significant time in countries and thus will be expected to travel up to 40-60% of the time working closely with Country Programme leadership teams in formulating & implementing social marketing strategy; evaluating programme effectiveness and coaching to improve leadership.

About you:

To be considered for the role you will have:

• Extensive experience in sales & marketing.


• Substantial experience working at a senior management level with budget/cost centre accountability, ideally with some logistics experience.


• Significant experience in sales and marketing, preferably in the health or development sector, and including taking products/services to scale.


• Experienced in managing distributors and wholesalers and working with third parties to drive sales and margin, combined with P&L management.


• A commercial mind-set, understanding the levers for profitability for success within the marketplace.


• Able to focus on the big picture, strategic, while understanding the detail and looking for the evidence.


• Excellent strategic planning and ability to distil complex data down into clear, cohesive social marketing plans that are client focused.


• Excellent communication skills – written and verbal skills in English (& preferably fluent in French).

For more information about the role, please view the job framework on our website.

In addition you will have the right to work in the UK and be pro-choice on abortion.

Location: – London

Closing date: 1^st March 2016 (midnight GMT). Interviews will take place before this date (for suitable candidates).

Salary: – £ ­­­­61-80k p/a.

All nationalities are encouraged to apply. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Keywords: social, marketing, manager, management, logistics, french