About the Job
Join Symcel’s Sales and Marketing team as our new Marketing Specialist and contribute to the rollout of advanced instruments that support the release of life-saving treatments.
In this role, you'll play a crucial part in our commercial team, enhancing company and technology awareness, generating and maturing leads as well as penetrating new markets and expanding the customer base in close collaboration with Sales, Product Management and Applications.
If you're a proactive marketer with a few years of experience and a desire to grow, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in an international life science company. Are you looking for a dynamic marketing role in a collaborative and positive work environment? Then we’d love to hear from you.
About Symcel
Symcel is a Swedish life science company in an exciting commercial scale-up phase, with offices in Stockholm, Boston, and Copenhagen. Symcel’s latest system delivers a new solution for rapid testing sterility in the growing cell and gene therapy (C>) market using the unique properties of the calorimetry-based detection system paired with machine learning and in-depth application knowledge.
With over 40 full-time employees from 18 nationalities, we are a diverse and international team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals. We’re united by a mission to accelerate how life is measured, supporting the discovery and manufacturing of life-changing therapies.
Our company language is English.
Discover more about us at: https://symcel.com
Job description
As a Marketing Specialist, you will drive marketing initiatives across digital channels and events —working closely with colleagues from marketing, product, application and sales teams. This role will be based at Symcel’s head office on the premises of the Karolinska Institute, with the option to work remotely 1–2 days per week.
Your responsibilities will include:
· Developing and managing digital marketing campaigns across channels such as social media, email and Google Ads.
· Coordinating Symcel’s participation in exhibitions and conferences, including booking, logistics, and booth materials (e.g., roll-ups, stand walls, printed materials).
· Overseeing day-to-day website content and updates, ensuring SEO optimization and alignment with brand guidelines.
· Collaborating with web developers and designers to improve website UX and functionality.
· Designing and adapting marketing materials (ads, images, videos, brochures) using tools like Adobe Creative Cloud or Canva.
· Supporting the creation of content including videos, blog articles, application notes, case stories and other marketing materials.
Qualifications
· Academic degree in Marketing, Communication or similar.
· At least 2 years’ relevant work experience in campaign management and digital marketing.
· Hands-on experience managing websites through CMS platforms and understanding of SEO best practices.
· Experience running social media and Google Ads campaigns.
· Proficiency with marketing software and design tools (eg. Adobe creative cloud including InDesign and Photoshop, Canva and CRM systems).
· Experience planning and coordinating conference participation (booking, shipments, and promotional material).
· Creative thinking and problem-solving abilities.
· Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team.
· Excellent written and spoken English.
Preferred qualifications (meriting but not required):
· Background in marketing for life science, in vitro diagnostics (IVD), or medical devices.
· Experience writing scientific or technical content (e.g., blog posts, case studies, application notes).
· Experience working in international B2B marketing environments.
Why join us?
At Symcel, you’ll join a growing life science company with a collaborative and positive work environment. Our technology is helping to improve solutions for medical treatments and patient care—enabling faster, more precise quality control in areas like cell and gene therapy. You’ll be part of an agile, engaged team where your contributions truly matter—and where you’ll have the opportunity to grow, take initiative, and help shape how we bring our innovation to the global market.
Contact & Application
We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and are eager to fill this position. We encourage applications from candidates already based in the Stockholm region.
To apply, please send your application to: careers@symcel.com
The final deadline to apply is September 15. We look forward to hearing from you!