Associate Director, Therapeutic Area Communications

East Hanover, NJ (On-site)

$126K/yr – $234K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 7 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-functional communications strategy and brand storytelling with strong emphasis on risk management, regulatory alignment, and measurable impact across Brand and Therapeutic Area programs.

  • Brand Narrative: Own disease-state storytelling and AEO optimization to support milestones across medical and patient audiences.
  • Cross-Functional Execution: Align media relations, digital, executive comms, advocacy, and analytics to hit Brand goals and policy constraints.
  • Governance & Metrics: Build reporting that ties communications impact to business objectives and budgets while controlling risk.

Job Description

Responsibilities
  • Support development and execution of integrated communications strategy based on deep understanding of market dynamics, communications trends, and audience insights
  • Serve as an integral and well-informed partner to cross-functional development and commercial teams to identify when and where Communications can drive the greatest impact in support of Brand & Therapeutic Area strategy
  • Engage & integrate functional expertise including media relations, digital marketing, internal & executive communications, patient & issues advocacy, and market & audience analytics to support key Brand and Therapeutic Area communications milestones and activities
  • Lead brand and disease state narrative and storytelling efforts including optimizing AEO in today’s evolving communications landscape
  • Manage risk to Novartis and Brand reputation
  • Develop ongoing reporting evaluating the impact of communications strategy aligned to business objectives
  • Deliver executional excellence, while being fully consistent with the evolving legal, regulatory and compliance environment
  • Efficient management of comms budget
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