Corporate Communications Senior Manager #4544

Menlo Park, CA (Hybrid)

$168K/yr – $223K/yrSenior Level7+ years expFull time

Posted 1 month ago

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Job Summary

Own and execute corporate communications strategy that shapes narratives, drives media outreach, and protects reputation across FDA-regulated life sciences; supervise agencies, monitor coverage, and manage budgets for measurable impact.

  • Corporate communications ownership: translate complex science into audience-ready messages across platforms and coordinate agency partners.
  • Media relations: proactive pitching, interview coordination, timely opportunities, and media inquiry management.
  • Issues management and analytics: reactive communications, monitoring, reporting, and budget/vendor oversight.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Develop and execute strategic corporate communications plans that enhance GRAIL’s reputation and support business priorities.
  • Shape corporate narratives, messaging, and communications materials for company milestones, data announcements, partnerships, and other external-facing initiatives.
  • Translate complex scientific, clinical, and business information into clear, compelling audience-appropriate messages across platforms.
  • Manage public relations agency partners in the development, editing and distribution of press releases, media resource materials, videos, social media and digital content, and other communications assets.
  • Lead proactive media outreach, coordinate interviews, manage inbound media inquiries, and work with agency partners to identify timely media opportunities.
  • Support issues management and reactive communications, including message development, media response, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Oversee media monitoring and coverage analysis; manage agency and vendor partners in the development of regular reports and insights.
  • Manage communications budgets, vendors, and agency workflows to ensure high-quality execution and measurable impact.
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GRAIL

Our mission is to detect cancer early, when it can be cured. We are working to change the trajectory of cancer mortality and bring stakeholders together to adopt innovative, safe, and effective technologies that can transform cancer care.We are a healthcare company, pioneering new technologies to advance early cancer detection. We have built a multi-disciplinary organization of scientists, engineers, and physicians and we are using the power of next-generation sequencing (NGS), population-scale clinical studies, and state-of-the-art computer science and data science to overcome one of medicine’s greatest challenges.GRAIL is headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with locations in Washington, D.C., North Carolina, and the United Kingdom. It is supported by leading global investors and pharmaceutical, technology, and healthcare companies. For more information, please visit grail.com.Community Guidelines: https://bit.ly/3xigb24

Founded in 2016
Menlo Park, California, USA