Director, Employee Communications / Executive

The Director, Employee Communications/Executive supports the Executive Vice President, Pharmaceuticals. The Director has considerable interaction with Pharmaceuticals Products Group (PPG) cross-functional leadership team peer public affairs colleagues, at both the PPG, corporate and divisional levels. The Director develops and executes the employee and executive communications strategy and programming of the EVP, PPG.

Core Job Responsibilities:

• Responsible for compliance with applicable Corporate and Divisional Policies and procedures.

• Develops employee communication strategy for PPG with EVP and his staff.

• Develops strategic employee communications program and tactics to support the above strategy.

• Responsible for presentations, talking points and speeches of EVP, PPG.

• Provides recommendations and oversight for employee events involving the EVP, PPG.

• Collaborates with other PA professionals to ensure consistent messaging and cross-pollination of messaging, strategies and best practices.

The Director reports to the EVP, PPG with a dotted line reporting to Corporate Public Affairs. The Director works with sensitive information, and oversees high-visibility products and processes, often within short deadlines. He or she has contact with a broad range of internal contacts, across levels.

Basic Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree, preferably in English, journalism or other communication-related major. Master’s degree strongly preferred, particularly an MBA.  At least 12 years of experience with 5-7 years in a high-level communications environment in business or journalism. Strong writing and presentation development experience working required. Ability to advise and work with senior level management a must.

Preferred Qualifications:

Background pharmaceuticals required with experience in employee, internal communication and executive communication.

International experience strongly preferred.