Market Segment Manager - Complex Disease

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is headquartered at the Oxford Science Park outside Oxford, UK, with satellite offices and a commercial presence in many global locations across the US, APAC and Europe.

Oxford Nanopore employs from multiple subject areas including nanopore science, molecular biology and applications, informatics, engineering, electronics, manufacturing and commercialisation. The management team, led by CEO Dr Gordon Sanghera, has a track record of delivering disruptive technologies to the market.

Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing platform is the only technology that offers real-time analysis, in fully scalable formats from pocket to population scale, that can analyse native DNA or RNA and sequence any length of fragment to achieve short to ultra-long read lengths. Our goal is to enable the analysis of any living thing, by anyone, anywhere!

Oxford Nanopore Technologies is seeking an enthusiastic and goal-oriented Market Segment Manager for Complex Disease to join our dynamic team. The successful candidate will define and lead the global strategic marketing plan for the complex disease segment, driving growth by increasing the adoption of Oxford Nanopore’s sequencing solutions among human genetics researchers worldwide. This role involves crafting our positioning across the genomic continuum—from genetic epidemiology and risk prediction in large cohorts to clinical research applications for monogenic and familial disease forms.

This role involves owning segment strategy development, commercial enablement, market activation, and go-to-market planning, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives and long-term growth priorities. This individual will partner closely with sales teams to deliver commercial activation programs, develop training and enablement tools, and create high-impact marketing assets that support customer engagement and deal progression. Other responsibilities include developing key customer relationships, and guiding initiatives that transform the complex disease segment into a major value driver for the company.

The ideal candidate combines deep scientific expertise with proven marketing leadership and a strong researcher network in at least one domain: genetics of neurodegenerative diseases, psychiatric genetics, or cardiovascular genetics.

• Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) to evaluate the success of market strategies and initiatives.
• Serve as a subject matter expert in genetic epidemiology, complex diseases, and genome-wide association studies, contributing to content generation, presentations, and events as well as serving as an internal expert for the internal teams such as business development, corporate marketing and product management.
• Commercial enablement:
  Deeply collaborate with commercial team leaders to provide the sales team with insights and strategies that drive sales activation and revenue growth in the complex disease and large cohort market segment. Provide training for internal teams including sales, TS/FAS

• Analyse market trends, customer needs, and competition to strengthen our position in complex disease markets, from large scale epidemiology initiatives to translational disease-focus multiomic research.
• Collaborate with product management and other internal teams to leverage technical insights on upcoming capabilities and evaluate, prioritise, and develop solutions for new or existing applications in key market segments.

• By driving go-to-market (GTM) strategies for new product launches, including pre-launch, cross-functional with product marketing, product management, application and sample tech to ensure relevant of benchmarking and supporting material and post-launch review and full activation.
• Build and maintain key customer relationships with researchers, scientific consortia, large cohort leaders, and industry partners, ensuring their needs are met and identifying opportunities for collaboration and develop success stories accelerating the uptake of our technology.
• Collaborate with the broader Marketing Team to understand customer needs and…