• A 2:1 or 1st in a science based 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

• A fast-track career path with ongoing training and development

• International travel to lead events around the world

• A dynamic, supportive team environment with a strong company culture

• Real autonomy and the opportunity to make a visible impact

• Clear progression routes and performance-based incentives

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.

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.