Job ID 318801BR Position Title Senior Manager, Oncology Associate Engagement Apply to Job
Job Description
10,000 employees in Oncology need a voice! This is an exciting opportunity to join the global Oncology Associate Engagement (AE) team. This team is a unified, aligned team working together in the pursuit of common goals and in service to our associates, to bring the One Novartis experience to life. The team works to ensure associates believe in, stand behind, and are proud of our Novartis strategy and culture, both inside and outside our walls.
This role in particular is part of the Oncology Associate Engagement team (within the larger AE team) and tells the Novartis Oncology story and its BOLD 4 Cure strategy, helping to ensure Novartis is “the place to be” in oncology. The Senior Manager in this team is a strategic thinker and storyteller, and makes a direct contribution to the team’s Big Bold Objective of telling the Novartis Oncology story so that associates are empowered, competitors emulate us, health care professionals respect us and patients trust us. How does the team know it is achieving this objective? Employees know the strategy and see their future. They feel passion to get there (there is no better place to live their purpose than Novartis). They become ambassadors (all encompassing) for Novartis Oncology.
The individual in this role has the opportunity and responsibility to work with teams across AE on above-Oncology programs and projects, as appropriate. Day-to-day, the individual contributes to the proof points above in many different ways but focused in three key areas:
Major Accountabilities
Leads internal communications for Oncology’s product and portfolio milestones
• Is obsessed with the Oncology audience and can create strategic campaigns and plans for product launches, R&D data readouts, platform/franchise progression and business development/licensing milestones
• Working with the team’s other members (director and associate director), creates the overall strategy and plan for several high-profile engagement events, whether face-to-face or virtual, including quarterly town halls, leadership meetings, awards ceremonies, etc.
Supports the Oncology President’s internal communications
• Working in tandem with the team’s director, this individual will provide support for the creation and execution of the Oncology President’s internal messages and internal social posts on yammer
Minimum requirements
• 8-10 years corporate communications experience within a global organization with at least three years’ experience with pharmaceutical products and brands.
• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent, in communications or journalism
• A strategic and analytical thinker who is comfortable challenging ways of working where efficiencies could be realized
• Great at stakeholder management and collaboration across disciplines
• Can manage work by agencies or contractors on as-needed basis
• Digital and tech savvy. Simple graphics and design experience
• Languages - English is a must; German is a plus
Why consider Novartis?
799 million. That’s how many lives our products touched in 2019. And while we’re proud of that fact, in this world of digital and technological transformation, we must also ask ourselves this: how can we continue to improve and extend even more people’s lives?
We believe the answers are found when curious, courageous and collaborative people like you are brought together in an inspiring environment. Where you’re given opportunities to explore the power of digital and data. Where you’re empowered to risk failure by taking smart risks, and where you’re surrounded by people who share your determination to tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges.
Imagine what you could do at Novartis!
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
Novartis embraces diversity, equal opportunity and inclusion. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration, and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.
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