Therapy Area Communications & Patient Advocacy Lead

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop, drive and implement the therapy area, product communication and patient advocacy strategy for respective TA focused on  priority pre-launch, launch and in market brands.
• Manage proactively interdependence with International TA Communications and Patient Advocacy team, including oversight of up to date global and country launch sequence and strategy implementation. 
• Drives a predictive mindset; seeking multidirectional insights to understand our environments, our stakeholders and the target audience, and embraces iterative, measurable experimentation and action. 
• Development and implementation of TA communication and patient advocacy strategy, KPIs and measurement of the impact. Ensure systemic implementation of OGSM framework and A&I measures to consistently monitor TA  goals outcomes and predict performance management, in alignment with Corporate Affairs Strategy and Operations and in partnership with Public Affairs.
• Strategic counsel and best practice sharing across the local team and at regional level for communications & patient advocacy, including, insights, measurement and execution learnings.
• Establish strategic and ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, leading to business-aligned, long-term collaborations that are valued by and valuable for key audiences, and most importantly, patients.
• Establish a strong collaboration with other Leads and Managers at country and regional level to ensure full awareness and understanding of country TA team performance and strategic alignment with business.
• Implement launch excellence in line with country priorities and Int. TA Comm & PA organization for respective TA and ensure strategic planning for all activities in line with business and function processes.
• Represent function on respective therapy area leadership team and become trusted strategic business partner to TA Head and other relevant internal stakeholders.
• Accountability for securing budget and budget management of respective TA communications and patient advocacy activities by Country P&L and Corporate Affairs. Including governance and compliance of Patient Advocacy grants, sponsorships and TOV reporting, supported by the Patient Advocacy governance lead.
• Oversee media relations strategy and implementation and drive and implement PESO and influencer engagement strategy for respective TA.

Essential  Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or other qualification.
• Many years’ experiences in diversified communications, patient advocacy and patient relations.
• Demonstrated therapeutic experience.
• Product PR communications, social media strategy and implementation.
• Corporate communications, IR, media relations, stakeholder relations, policy.
• Industry/ Business exposure in matrixed organisation.
• Leading large and/or diverse multi-functional teams.
• Exemplifies and drives a predictive approach; seeks multidirectional insights to understand our environments and customers, and embraces iterative, measurable experimentation and action.
• Crisis, issues and agency management.
• Validated ability to cultivate impactful teams - team leadership and management.
• Ability to prioritise and maximise resources.
• Business and organisational awareness, enterprise perspective.
• Languages: Spanish: Native / English: Advanced

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Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

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