Director, Corporate Communications

7 days ago

Mississauga, Canada AstraZeneca GmbH Full time

What you will do:

As the Director, Corporate Communications, you will develop communications strategies and messaging that helps tell the Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease story to a broad range of stakeholder audiences. You will build and maintain clear, compelling and consistent messaging and build strategic creative campaigns that bring them to life.

You'll need to be a strategic problem solver, with a talent to develop and implement project plans. Expert-level organization and time management skills are key to supporting numerous projects, deliver in a fast-paced environment, coordinate with multiple functions and/or regions and successfully partner with internal clients and leaders.

You will be a core member of the Alexion, AstraZeneca Rare Disease Global Corporate Affairs team while collaborating with other teams across AstraZeneca to ensure our strategy and message aligns with enterprise priorities.

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as the leader on Alexion’s narrative development, building messaging frameworks that articulate our position and ambition as a leader in rare disease.
  • Develop strategic rollout plans, and supporting materials (written, multimedia, etc.) in support of key issue areas and narratives.
  • Develop compelling campaigns that tell the Alexion story across audiences, including rare disease awareness.
  • Partner with key stakeholders in developing aligned messaging and materials across audiences and platforms (media, social/digital, internal, etc).
  • Serve as a lead point of contact with AstraZeneca global communications to support rare disease pull through in enterprise level communications, campaigns, and reputation management.
  • Serve as the primary reviewer of corporate content including decks, fact sheets, and other corporate materials.
  • Regularly update corporate materials to ensure messaging updates are pulled through across all materials and platforms.
  • Partner with regional and market communicators to ensure corporate materials support market needs.
  • Craft a wide range of communications materials including blog posts, communications plans, fact sheets, statements, and briefing materials.
  • Supervise agency partners to drive tactical execution of communications strategies, managing associated budgets and ensuring that metrics are reached.
  • Manage multiple, critical communications projects simultaneously and independently.

Requirements:

  • 10+ years working in corporate communications, with in-house life sciences experience preferred.
  • Strong experience building and shaping corporate narrative and messaging strategies.
  • Experience working directly with executives and other leaders.
  • Very strong writing skills with excellent attention to detail.
  • Track record of long-term planning and execution of communications and engagement building strategies.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment, while navigating ambiguity and/or frequent changes in scope or direction of projects.
  • Strong organizational skills and demonstrated ability to juggle multiple, competing priorities.
  • Experience leading projects and partners (agency teams, cross functional partners, etc).
  • Experience developing materials across various communications mediums: presentations, messaging decks, videos, social posts, memos, annual reports, toolkits, etc.
  • BA/BS or similar educational attainment.
  • The duties of this role are generally conducted in an office environment. As is typical of an office-based role, employees must be able, with or without an accommodation to: use a computer; engage in communications via phone, video, and electronic messaging; engage in problem solving and non-linear thought, analysis, and dialogue; collaborate with others; maintain general availability during standard business hours.

We would prefer for you to have:

  • Direct experience in communications in pharmaceutical industry setting.
  • Understanding of the rare disease sector.
  • Experience working on heavily matrixed teams/projects.

Alexion Canada

Since beginning our operations in Canada in 2009, Alexion has been working tirelessly to bring innovative medicines to the millions of Canadians living with rare diseases. Our pioneering 30-year legacy, our scientific expertise and our commitment to patient-centric decision-making are the foundations of what we are today – a company with a mission to transform lives.

Our Canadian team

We know that people living with a rare disease and their families deserve our unwavering commitment and investment into finding and accessing therapies that help them live longer, fuller lives. Our presence in Canada has grown to over 200 employees and includes a global research and development hub, made up of highly skilled professionals responsible for conducting our clinical trials in Canada and around the world, as well as our dedicated and passionate local teams that ensure our treatments reach those who need them. Together, we are driving patient impact locally and globally.

How we work
When we put unexpected teams in the same room, we unleash bold thinking with the power to inspire life-changing medicines. In-person working gives us the platform to connect, work at pace and challenge perceptions. That’s why we work, on average, a minimum of three days per week from the office. But that doesn’t mean we’re not flexible. We balance the expectation of being in the office while respecting individual flexibility. Join us in our unique and ambitious world.

Alexion embraces diversity and equality of opportunity. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse team representing all backgrounds, with as wide a range of perspectives as possible, and harnessing industry-leading skills. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. We welcome and consider applications to join our team from all qualified candidates, regardless of their characteristics. We comply with all applicable laws and regulations on non-discrimination in employment (and recruitment), as well as work authorization and employment eligibility verification requirements. Alexion is committed to accommodating persons with disabilities. Such accommodation is available on request in respect of all aspects of the recruitment, assessment and selection process and may be requested by emailing AZCHumanResources@astrazeneca.com.

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