Hybrid Senior Director, Innovative Medicines Communications

at Teva Pharmaceuticals

• Job title: Senior Director, Innovative Medicines Communications
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $226,480 - $297,255 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Parsippany, United States

About the role

• Senior Director at Teva Pharmaceuticals leading communications strategies for innovative medicines. Focused on driving brand communication and reputation for key growth areas in healthcare.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute strategic communication programming for internal and external stakeholders to drive forward the company’s strategy, promote Teva’s purpose, support the business, strengthen Teva’s reputation, and build employee pride.
• Actively engage and collaborate with business partners across the value chain to deliver breakthrough communications with precision and impact, ensuring wide and effective amplification of Teva’s Pivot to Growth corporate strategy and purpose to key stakeholders with a strong emphasis on patient experience and outcomes.
• Be an engaging and empowering team leader who inspires high-performing, agile teams committed to high-quality standards and business impact.
• Lead cross-functional team and agency partners to create compelling, patient-centric, strategic branded and unbranded communications for disease education, new product launches, data and regulatory milestones, issues management, thought leadership, influencer and celebrity campaigns, enterprise and executive messaging and more.
• In keeping with Teva’s purpose, ensure product messaging maintains a central focus on patient experience, reflecting respect and compassion for people living the medical conditions for which Teva develops and delivers effective treatments by researching and engaging with patient communities.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing counsel on communication issues, brand management and stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure strategic alignment of communications planning, brand management and resource allocation through all-in engagement in US IM leadership teams, active collaboration with Global Corporate Affairs functional partners and dedicated teamwork with Teva business partners.
• Forge and maintain positive and productive partnerships with communication counterparts at third-party companies on partnered project communications.
• Ensure all communications comply with regulatory requirements and reflect respect, compassion and scientific integrity.
• Monitor and analyze communication performance metrics to assess the effectiveness of initiative and continuously refine strategies.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in communications/writing/journalism/marketing or a life sciences discipline; advanced degree in communications or life sciences a plus.
• A minimum of 15 years of experience in pharmaceutical communications, PR, corporate affairs or marketing.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing and executing PR strategies for complex, highly regulated products.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex information for a general audience.
• Proficiency in digital communication tools and platforms to create content for various communication channels.
• Strong leadership skills, with ability to gain followership across multi-functional teams.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-changing and dynamic business environment.
• Ability to engage and collaborate effectively across multiple stakeholder groups, including senior leaders, news media, patients and advocates, clinicians, doctors, scientists and celebrities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive Health Insurance: Medical, Dental, Vision, and Prescription coverage starting on the first day of employment, providing the employee enrolls.
• Retirement Savings: 401(k) with employer match, up to 6% and an annual 3.75% Defined Contribution to the 401k plan.
• Time Off: Paid Time Off including vacation, sick/safe time, caretaker time and holidays.
• Life and Disability Protection: Company paid Life and Disability insurance.
• Additional benefits include, but are not limited to, Employee Assistance Program, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, Tuition Assistance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Life Style Spending Account, Volunteer Time Off, Paid Parental Leave, if eligible, Family Building Benefits, Virtual Physical Therapy, Accident, Critical Illness and Hospital Indemnity Insurances, Identity Theft Protection, Legal Plan, Voluntary Life Insurance and Long Term Disability and more.