Marketing Excellence

Interest Group

The previous Learning and Development industry group has had a re-brand and is now the Marketing Excellence industry group, chaired by Simon Grime.

We are actively recruiting new members to the groups so please get in touch!

The group is focused on advancing standards in marketing excellence by supporting the development of skills and capabilities in pharma marketing through sensible key objectives:

  • To promote marketing excellence as progressive and enabling innovative business growth

  • To enable marketers to push boundaries and make an impact

  • To enable access to learning, insight and people

This will be delivered by focusing on 3 key workstreams
  1. Partnership with CIM to deliver the PM Society & CIM Marketing Leaders Programme and award 3 x CIM Fellowships annually (led by Simon Grime)

  2. A Marketing Mentoring Programme, to support development of marketers of the future by providing external career mentoring to aid development and implementation of their L&D plan – Led by Cassandra Rix

  3. PM Talks programme, a series of fireside chats with senior marketing leaders from outside the industry, to share best practice and continually learn about the drivers of change and creating an innovation culture

If you’d like to know more and/or get involved, please contact contact@pmsociety.org.uk.

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