Summary
About the Role
Major accountabilities:
Develop and implement a comprehensive and strategic executive communications strategy to help deliver strengthened corporate reputation, enhance our advocacy and policy efforts, and drive business growth within Europe.
In partnership with A&I, generate insights, data and analytics to anticipate trends and shape our strategies at the regional level.
Reporting to the Director of Policy Communications, collaborate closely with Public Affairs and Patient Advocacy Europe team and other Corporate Affairs colleagues (Intl President Communications) to leverage key executive voices to amplify our corporate brand to enhance our reputation above country, advance our policy goals and set the tone for our culture for European leaders.
Build awareness and understanding of latest communications channels/trends and opportunities to utilize communications and patient advocacy to contribute to the achievement of business goals and objectives and support execution of work.
X-functionally embedded, provide guidance and recommendations in a programmatic approach to APMA President for executive positioning towards internal and external audiences.
Oversee the creation of any integrated communications materials for executive visibility purposes at the regional level and directed at European external or internal stakeholders. Coordinate content generation, speaking engagements and media opportunities to serve the overall corporate strategy.
Support relationships with key internal and external stakeholders such as media, patient groups, politicians, etc. and ensure consistency of Novartis brand and market position in all communications.
Partner with priority markets within the region to ensure consistency of messaging and coordinated execution.
Stay abreast of key environmental and policy issues impacting the company’s ability to operate in the region, and of broader media relations strategy and implementation.
Implementation of relevant Corporate Affairs guidance pertaining to governance and processes.
Minimum Requirements:
- 10+ years diversified communications & policy.
- Product PR communications, social media strategy and implementation
- Corporate communications, IR, media relations, stakeholder relations, policy.
- Industry/ Business Exposure in matrixed organization
- Crisis and issues management
- Executive presence
- Proven ability to cultivate high performing teams - Team leadership and management.
- Ability to prioritize & maximize resources.
- Excellent people & communication skills,
- Crisis & agency mgmt.
- Business and organizational awareness, enterprise perspective.
- Exemplifies a predictive mindset; seeks multidirectional insights to understand our environments and stakeholders, and embraces iterative, measurable experimentation and action.
Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
You’ll receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
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