Lead Associate / Manager Communications & Social Media at Dr. Reddy's Laboratories | Princeton, NJ

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

Lead Associate / Manager Communications & Social Media

Princeton, NJ (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableManager5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive corporate and social media communications for a regulated pharma company to protect and grow reputation while coordinating cross‑functional teams.

Must-have: 5+ years in pharma/regulated healthcare communications with strong writing and stakeholder mgmt.
Standout: Cross‑functional collaboration with Brand, Medical, Legal and Regulatory to ensure compliant, executive-ready messaging.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Develop and support corporate communication strategies that strengthen the company’s reputation across key stakeholders, including patients, healthcare professionals, employees, and partners.
Draft, edit, and distribute corporate communications materials such as press releases, internal announcements, executive messages, town hall presentations, Q&A documents, and talking points.
Assist in preparing communication plans for product updates, corporate initiatives, regulatory milestones, and crisis response—ensuring alignment with legal, medical, and regulatory requirements.
Collaborate with PR teams, brand teams, and cross‑functional partners to ensure consistent and compliant communication across all channels.
Ensure all communication materials align with brand voice, corporate values, and pharmaceutical industry standards.
Co-develop, implement and manage social media strategies to elevate brand awareness, corporate reputation, and audience engagement.
Lead day‑to‑day social media operations, including posting, monitoring comments and messages, addressing inquiries, and ensuring timely escalation of sensitive topics.
Maintain compliance by ensuring all social content and interactions follow industry regulations (e.g., FDA/FTC guidance, adverse event reporting procedures).
Manage social media ad boosting campaigns—including budget planning, targeting, and performance tracking—while adhering to compliance standards.
Prepare regular performance reports and presentations highlighting key social metrics, emerging trends, risk considerations, and actionable insights.

Requirements

Minimum work experience:
- Experience in healthcare OTC, pharma, biotechnology, life sciences industries preferred
- Bachelors degree in Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related field required.
- 5+ years of experience in social media management, communications, and / or public relations—ideally within the pharmaceutical, healthcare, or highly regulated industry is required.
- Understanding of legal, regulatory, and compliance considerations related to pharmaceutical communications (MLR/PRC processes a plus).
Skills & attributes:
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to adapt tone and style for corporate, scientific, and consumer audiences. Strong understanding of social media platforms, algorithms, and best practices within a regulated industry.
- Proficiency with social media management tools, analytics software, and scheduling platforms.
- Creative thinker with strong storytelling, messaging, and visual communication abilities.
- Strong analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and generate insights for decision‑making.
- Skilled in video editing and graphic design tools (e.g., Canva).
- Familiarity with keyword strategy, SEO basics, and trending hashtags.
- Skilled in managing budgets for paid social campaigns.
- Experience creating executive‑ready presentations in Microsoft PowerPoint.
- Ability to multitask, work cross‑functionally, and meet deadlines in a fast‑paced, highly regulated environment

Preferred

MLR/PRC processes a plus

Benefits

comprehensive health care coverage, retirement savings plan and leave benefits
annual discretionary bonus

Dr. Reddy's Laboratories

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Established in 1984, we are a global pharmaceutical company headquartered in Hyderabad, India. Driven by our purpose of ‘Good Health Can’t Wait’, we work to provide access to affordable and innovative medicines. We offer a portfolio of products and services including APIs, generics, branded generics, biosimilars and OTC. Our major markets include USA, India, Russia & CIS countries, China, Brazil and Europe. As a company with a history of deep science that has led to several industry firsts, we continue to plan ahead and invest in future growth drivers such as access to novel molecules, digital therapeutics and consumer healthcare. As an early adopter of sustainability and ESG actions, we released our first Sustainability Report in 2004. Our current ESG goals aim to set the bar high in environmental stewardship; access and affordability for patients; diversity; and governance. For more information, log on to: www.drreddys.com.Caution Notice: Dr. Reddy's has been made aware of candidates receiving fraudulent job opportunities from unauthorised recruiting agencies or people impersonating Dr. Reddy's leaders. These fraudulent jobs may be advertised on employment sites or mimic our careers site and company email addresses. Please know that Dr. Reddy's Laboratories has no affiliation or connection to these situations. Dr. Reddy's (and its associated/group companies) follows a formal recruitment process through its own HR department. Please report immediately in case you suspect a fraudulent job. You may raise your concern by:Accessing https://drreddys.ethicspoint.com. Calling on the hotline number. List of hotline numbers are available in https://drreddys.ethicspoint.com. The hotline is available 24x7 in multiple languages. Writing to complianceofficer@drreddys.com or chiefombudsperson@drreddys.com. For our community guidelines on LinkedIn, please visit: https://shorturl.at/LTvNZ

Founded in 1984

Hyderabad, Telangana, IND

31K employees (973 in marketing)

www.drreddys.com

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