Senior Manager, Corporate Communications and Patient Advocacy

New York, USA (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive biotech corporate communications and patient advocacy for Nuvation Bio, shaping messaging, media relations, and stakeholder engagement at scale.

  • Own media relations, digital campaigns, and patient advocacy projects to influence external perception and internal alignment.
  • Must-have: 5–7+ years in biotech/pharma corporate comms with public-company or agency experience.
  • Standout: Cross-functional collaboration and ability to translate complex science for diverse audiences.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support engagement of key advocacy stakeholders, which could include: patients, caregivers, healthcare providers, and advocacy groups for engagement and collaboration based on mutual goals.
  • Develop, management, and maintenance of strategic corporate and PR communication materials, including press releases, presentations, Q&As, digital content, internal communications and more.
  • Support critical thought leadership efforts, to include short- and long-form content across platforms and audiences.
  • Develop compelling, authentic, and consistent messaging related to Nuvation Bio’s strategies, initiatives, pipeline, and performance. Ensure that all communications incorporate Best Practices and comply with pertinent SEC rules and FD regulations.
  • Work collaboratively with the Corporate Communications and Patient Advocacy team, as well as with other functional leadership and related agencies, to ensure consistent messaging for external/internal stakeholders, maximizing efficient use of resources
  • Own specific workstreams that support external and internal communications initiatives and patient advocacy engagement, including media relations, digital and social media campaigns, patient ambassador relationships and patient advocacy related projects.
  • Support the crafting of regular progress reports and presentations for key stakeholders, including the executive committee and cross-functional team, to provide updates on program performance and milestones.
  • Maintain pulse on disease-area landscapes from public sentiment, competitor positioning and advocacy-related efforts.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree and a minimum of 5-7+ years of experience working in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry, with direct experience designing and executing corporate communications within a publicly traded company and/or in an agency setting.
  • Proven ability to speak the language of a pharmaceutical/biotech company and break down complex scientific concepts for both internal and external audiences.
  • Demonstrated track record of conducting successful, proactive communications efforts that employ creativity and use of a variety of tools, forums, media and metrics.
  • Experience developing thought leadership content for the company across various audiences and ability to pivot based content based on audience.
  • Understanding of the advocacy landscape and core engagement principles / best practices.
  • Trusted for flawless execution of proactive and reactive initiatives.
  • Maintains strong relationships with healthcare reporters, and industry media.
  • Knowledge of up-to-date compliance, legal, regulatory and other issues that impact communications and can apply them, accordingly, including knowledge of SEC and disclosure requirements.
  • Strategic agility, able to balance proactive/planning with reactive elements of the position. Thrives in the opportunity to support the full spectrum of biotech communications and patient advocacy needs, from internal communications efforts to medical meetings to thought leadership, and can successfully toggle as needs arise.
  • Dynamic, team player with excellent organizational, interpersonal, and influence skills. Experience working with agency partners. Demonstrates leadership abilities with room to grow into management as function evolves.
  • Enthusiastic about Nuvation Bio’s vision and mission and endorse and promote our values.

Preferred

  • Experience working with agency partners.
  • Leadership potential with room to grow into management as function evolves.
  • Enthusiastic about Nuvation Bio’s vision and mission and endorse and promote our values.

Benefits

  • Competitive Base Salary, Bonus, and Equity Plans
  • Unlimited Vacation and 10 Sick Days Annually
  • Excellent Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage
  • 401K with Company Matching
  • and much more!
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Nuvation Bio

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Nuvation Bio is a global biopharmaceutical company tackling some of the greatest unmet needs in oncology by developing differentiated and novel therapeutic candidates. Nuvation Bio’s portfolio includes taletrectinib (ROS1), safusidenib (mIDH1), NUV-868 (BET), and NUV-1511 (DDC). Nuvation Bio was founded in 2018 by biopharma industry veteran David Hung, M.D., who previously founded Medivation, Inc., which brought to patients one of the world’s leading prostate cancer medicines. Nuvation Bio has offices in New York, San Francisco, and Shanghai.

Founded in 2018
New York, New York, USA
220 employees (17 in marketing)
100% recommend to a friend
100% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
21.8K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$13.2K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
39%
Direct
44%
Referral
5.1%
Social
9.8%
Paid
2%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~220

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
16 (7% of company)

Funding

Total Funding
$927M
Last Raise
$150M
Post IPO Debt, 1 years ago

Funding History

  • Mar 2025
    Post IPO Debt • $150M
  • Feb 2021
    Post IPO Equity • $502M
  • Oct 2019
    Series A • $275M

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