• A 2:1 or 1^st degree from a leading university.
• High academic achievements including A or A* at A’ level.
• Strong entrepreneurial spirit, tenacious, ambitious, and highly motivated.
• A natural passion for business research and translate this into a premium, content-rich agendas.
• Comfortable with high levels of phone activity speaking to C-level business leaders.  

In transitioning from a career in medicine, Hanson Wade stood out to me as a unique opportunity to work in life science and develop a commercial grounding in business at the same time.

As a new graduate, I started in delegate sales before moving across the business into production to be a conference producer, responsible for creating and delivering market-leading events. The autonomy of both product and project management gave me the foundations to establish and manage a portfolio of events within the same area of life science research and gave me the skillset to start identifying and establishing new conference ideas of my own. At this point I became a Brand Director responsible for my portfolio as if it were a company of my own; managing net profit and loss and targeted on my commercial performance against budgets. After a year working as the main producer on this portfolio, I was able to hire and become a line manager to a new producer, passing the production of my repeat events to them.  In the role of a Portfolio Director, I did this across four P&Ls including CNS, Cardiometabolic, Fibrosis, Renal, and Respiratory. Now I am a Business Unit Director, providing clear strategic vision for products, portfolios and people. I am both learning and developing core management and training skills that are transferrable in any career, but also how to manage a business within the safety net of Hanson Wade as company.

Balancing understanding emerging science whilst running a commercially successful portfolio and developing my direct report careers is constantly challenging, exciting, and rewarding. I feel very lucky to be in a job that I genuinely enjoy and be surrounded by so many intelligent and driven peers who push me to fast track my own development.

Upon graduating with a Biomedical degree, pursuing career at Hanson Wade really appealed to me. Given my long term career goals, this was an opportunity to continue researching areas of progression within medicine whilst developing my business understanding and skillset.

Joining the CDx Engage team as a Bespoke Event Producer, I embarked upon a steep learning curve as I began taking calls with senior clients and biopharma leaders within the focused and fast-paced Biomarkers & Diagnostics industry. As the first to have this role, I was definitely challenged by stepping into a position where the path forward was not so well forged, although I was driven and excited by the prospect of developing and growing a new portfolio within the business.

As I produced and advised on client-led and internally validated events, including workshops, one day masterminds, exclusive networking events and deep-dive webinars; then curating focused audiences to be in attendance, my role involved me understanding and meeting the business development goals of clients. Meeting this end goal included creating compelling copy for website & in-market campaigns, in addition to working closely with other business functions, to ultimately deliver outstanding quality of content and event execution on-site (whether in-person or digitally!). All this led me to develop efficient time-management balanced across multiple projects, research skills and effective communication based on solid scientific and commercial understanding. Having designed a new website, launched novel event products to market and worked on the creation of processes for new products, there were always opportunities for me to expand my impact on the business and autonomously develop skill sets I had an interest in honing in on.

Now, transitioning into the Brand Director role in the core production team, I produce larger scale events. Remaining with the Biomarkers & Diagnostics community, I’m able to leverage and further develop strong relationships with industry leaders to build credible meeting agendas representing the cutting edge of industry progress. This role pushes me to be creative, a problem solver and think strategically on a daily basis so I can deliver successful in-market campaigns in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Alongside my work, I’m a member of the ‘Wellbeing Champion’ team; a role equipping me with an understanding and awareness of supporting colleagues struggling with mental health.

I look forward to continue delivering content and connections of real value, to play a part in enabling scientific communities progressing game changing medicines towards patients faster – all whilst growing my skillset as I forge my corporate career.

I joined Hanson Wade in October 2019 as a Conference Producer within the Microbiome Movement portfolio, where I immediately started to conduct research with a number of C-level executives, and used this information to build compelling programs that addressed the industry’s top needs. I also worked with and managed cross-functional activities within the project team to direct the campaign and maximise its marketing and commercial potential.

Given my role at Hanson Wade was my first full time job learning curve at times was steep, weekly and fortnightly training sessions with other Producer’s and with my line manager supported my development massively.

I was promoted to my current role as a Senior Conference Producer in January 2021 where my mindset shifted to become more commercially focused, leveraging my knowledge of the production role and the markets to ensure consistent commercial growth of events.

I was fortunate to then move across to the World ADC portfolio working on two of Hanson Wade’s flagship events; World ADC London and World ADC San Diego. Taking ownership of larger events was a real honour, and although at time was challenging, I was able to utilize my experience, skillset and support from within the Production department to put together and deliver both events highly successfully.

I became a Brand Director in June 2022, where I am now responsible for more strategic operations including scoping out new conference ideas, growing existing events and more recently management, across the Antibody-drug Conjugates and Gene Therapy fields. I am incredibly excited to begin this journey as a Brand Director and start having a bigger influence externally as well as internally at Hanson Wade.