Corporate Communications Manager

Responsibilities

• Internal Communications & Employee Engagement
• 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.
• Social Media Strategy & Content Management
• 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.

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.

Preferred

• Experience communicating in a complex legal and regulatory environment a plus.
• Experience supporting media relations, media monitoring, and coverage reporting preferred.

Benefits

• 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.