Corporate Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Create and edit a variety of communications materials and content supporting corporate priorities, business milestones, culture, employee engagement, and corporate reputation objectives via channels including emails, intranet, newsletters, and other corporate communications assets.
• Partner with product marketing teams and other key internal stakeholders to amplify disease awareness initiatives and key product and R&D pipeline milestones.
• Maintain consistency across internal and external communications by applying approved messaging, brand standards, and the corporate narrative.
• Own Internal Communications intake requests, timelines, approvals, and project status.
• Support employee engagement initiatives through planning and content creation.
• Monitor and enrich appropriate communications metrics and KPIs, using performance insights to improve content, channel selection, and audience engagement.
• Partner on Sumitomo Pharma America’s corporate social media program, including content creation, publishing, community management and analytics.
• Monitor social media trends, conversations, risks, and opportunities to inform strategy and content development.
• Analyze performance metrics and industry benchmarks to optimize audience engagement and content effectiveness.
• Partner on media relations activities related to company milestones, announcements, scientific developments, and strategic initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, marketing, or related field required.
• Minimum five years’ experience in communications in-house or agency or related setting.
• Demonstrated success creating content across multiple channels, including social media, digital content, presentations, newsletters, and corporate storytelling.
• Strong writing, editing, proofreading, and content development skills with the ability to simplify complex topics, identify what is actually news and tell a story.
• Experience managing corporate social media channels, editorial calendars, content creation, and native platform campaigns.
• Experience supporting internal communications and employee engagement initiatives.
• Strong understanding of corporate reputation management, brand positioning, messaging, and communications best practices. Experience communicating in a complex legal and regulatory environment a plus.
• Experience supporting media relations, media monitoring, and coverage reporting preferred.
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams, agencies, and vendors.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities independently.

Benefits

• Base salary is part of our total rewards package which also includes the opportunity for merit-based salary increases, short incentive plan participation, eligibility for our 401(k) plan, medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurances and leaves provided in line with your work state. Our robust time-off policy includes flexible paid time off, 11 paid holidays plus additional time off for a shut-down period during the last week of December, 80 hours of paid sick time upon hire and each year thereafter.