Communications Manager

F. Hoffmann-La Roche Gruppe; Mississauga; Hybrid; CAD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A global healthcare company is seeking a Senior Communications Manager in Mississauga, Canada to drive impactful communications strategies. This role requires a Bachelor's degree and 7+ years in pharmaceutical communications. Key responsibilities include developing communication strategies, collaborating with stakeholders, and enhancing the corporate reputation. This position promotes a healthier future through effective messaging and storytelling.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in communications/marketing in the pharmaceutical industry.
• Experience writing across different mediums.
• Creative thinker with bold ideas in communications.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement comprehensive communications strategies.
• Lead cross-functional visibility efforts for Roche's objectives.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders on messaging.

Skills

Communications

Strategic thinking

Collaboration

Content creation

Technical proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

The Position

Communications Manager

Duration: 14-month contract

Location: On-Campus Hybrid position. Candidates must be based in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA)

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Opportunity

The Communications Manager role at Roche Canada Pharma is a senior, strategic position that brings together internal and external communications strategies to drive impact for patients and our business. You will tell powerful stories about the difference innovative medicines make in the lives of patients and society. You will tailor our messages to different audiences - traditional media, across social channels, through external speaking engagements, with leading healthcare system stakeholders, and patients.

You will work with Roche\'s senior leaders to give voice to our positions and share our belief that we all have a role in contributing to a healthier future for Canadians. You will protect and enhance Roche\'s corporate reputation and, in doing so, will truly understand why those of us who work at Roche Canada are so very #RocheProud. And, you will experience all this and more while being part of a tremendously talented communications team.

In this role, you will be responsible for the following areas, but not exclusively limited to them

• Developing and implementing comprehensive communications strategies that shape and position the Roche brand and reputation. By tailoring messages to specific audiences at the right time and through the right channels, you ensure our communications have a powerful impact.
• Drawing on key business insights, creating cohesive and outcome-based communications strategies that align with Roche Canada's objectives.
• Accessing innovative healthcare, leading cross-functional visibility efforts, maintaining a deep understanding of Roche Canada's medicines, therapeutic areas, healthcare policies, and other relevant factors.
• Collaborating closely with stakeholders, aligning messaging and approaches, co-creating content, and identifying opportunities for employee engagement across all functions within Roche Canada Pharma.
• Leading with a strong vision and strategy, anticipating both problems and opportunities, assessing the likelihood of their occurrence and identifying the key drivers behind them, enabling you to efficiently manage and address them.

Who you are

• You hold a bachelor\'s degree and 7+ years experience in communications/marketing in the pharmaceutical Industry and therapeutic fields.
• You have experience writing across different mediums, and through different voices.
• You are a creative thinker who will bring bold ideas to the table and deliver new and highly effective communications while remaining in tune with local compliance and Canadian regulations.

In addition, you bring the following experience and competencies

Technical Ability

• You efficiently use the full range of technologies required for your job and are open to adopting new technologies, and learn new technologies quickly and thoroughly.
• You plan and execute projects according to agile principles to maximize strategic impact; design feasible, flexible budgets you can stick to; coordinate team members effectively; and monitor and report progress appropriately.
• You use Roche standards and procedures for communications and use all opportunities to leverage our unique culture as a source of differentiation.

Content & Messaging

• Your written and oral communications are clear, simple, concise, and engaging, whether you are communicating to individuals, small groups, or large audiences in your own voice or on behalf of others who will deliver Roche’s messages.
• You explore sophisticated audience segmentations, tap all available audience datasets as appropriate, build listening tools into message delivery channels, and quickly adjust messages when needed.
• You ensure messages are error-free; well adapted to their audiences, format, and channel; legally compliant; consistent with organizational and campaign narratives; and target behavior change whenever possible.

Collaboration & Decision Making

• You collaborate well with others by listening carefully to them, meeting their information needs, and communicating openly about your own skills and your limitations.
• You gather information necessary to make decisions, think through problems clearly and logically and are decisive; You make good decisions without necessarily having all of the information.
• You coach Communications colleagues and business partners in core communications skills and strategies when needed, and work to facilitate best practices in Communications organization-wide.

Strategic Thinking

• You see connections that others do not, successfully apply ideas drawn from seemingly unrelated contexts, and generate a wide array of useful solutions to solve problems. You are able to adapt quickly to new market changes, audience needs, and changing internal or external interests.
• You prioritize projects that directly support business objectives and that Communications can add clear value to, and within those projects you prioritize the tasks most important for achieving project outcomes
• You integrate core business activities into your organization\'s priorities, apply your knowledge of the larger ecosystem to your work, manage resources efficiently, and consider the impact of your decisions on other parts of the business.

Relocation benefits are not available for this Job Posting

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life-changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact.

Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.