Communications Manager

Elan Personal AG; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche Basel seeks an experienced Communications Manager to lead external and internal communications aligned with the group strategy. The role focuses on crafting narratives, campaigns, and tools to engage stakeholders across functions and geographies.

You will partner with Group Communications and business partners to drive integrated campaigns, coach leaders, and advance a cohesive corporate voice that supports Roche’s health mission and strategic priorities. Basel-based, with a global remit.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, PR, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in communications with external focus in pharma/diagnostics.
• Ability to lead indirectly and influence outcomes.
• International or global work experience.
• Proven ability to develop and manage global communications strategies and teams.
• Strong strategic agility and industry knowledge in healthcare/diagnostics.
• Excellent consulting, listening, and coaching skills.
• Outstanding influencing, negotiation and relationship-building abilities.
• Self-driven in a non-hierarchical, team-based environment.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written).

Responsibilities

• Drive planning and delivery of integrated communications strategies and campaigns.
• Align communications goals to overall priorities and support change communications.
• Develop tools and strategies to engage a diverse workforce and leaders.
• Oversee end-to-end integrated planning with measurement against objectives.
• Maintain knowledge of Diagnostics Customer Service and apply insights.
• Stay informed on internal and external developments affecting comms.

Skills

English fluency

Indirect leadership

Global experience

Global comms strategy

Strategic agility

Consulting skills

Influencing

Stakeholder management

Interpersonal skills

Self-motivation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Communications/PR or related field

Job description

Roche Switzerland bridges the gap between pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. Important research and development functions are located here. For our long-term client, F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG in Basel, we are looking for a

Communications Manager

Background:

Group Communications (GC) is responsible for creating a lasting positive image of Roche and are representing the company's voice on a Group level: We communicate Roche’s strategy and how we deliver on our purpose of “Doing now what patients need next” to Roche colleagues and external audiences. We drive integrated and global campaigns and provide platforms for communications business partners as well as our affiliates to engage with audiences.

We contribute to building trust of key stakeholders, to managing Roche’s brand and reputation and to building a favorable environment for our business. We aspire to be: innovative; forward-looking; creative; courageous; representing a strong, integrated corporate brand and audience experience. We work in an environment where people can thrive, learn new skills, create great things and have fun together.

Our communications vision is ambitious and simple: We inspire the world about Roche’s contribution to peoples’ health.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

• In alignment with your colleagues in the Business Partner and Communications teams, drive planning and delivering
• integrated communications strategies, narratives and campaigns that engage and align stakeholders at both a cross function and team-specific level.
• Align Communications strategy, goals, and objectives to overall priorities; provide support on high-value, impactful employee and change communications.
• Support the development of communications tools and strategies to engage and inspire a diverse workforce, equip leaders with the skills to effectively inspire their organisations, and equip colleagues with the skills and capabilities they need to maximise their interactions with stakeholders.
• Support end-to-end integrated communication planning including measurement against objectives.
• Develop and maintain broad-based knowledge of the Diagnostics Customer Service organisation; use knowledge of business and communications insights, metrics, expertise, and decision principles to effectively diagnose topics with a wide range of complexity.
• Stay abreast of internal and external developments, industry trends, as these pertain to strategic communication and ‘new ways of working’ priorities.

Must Haves:

• Minimum Bachelor’s degree in Journalism, Communications, Public Relations or related field, or equivalent combination of education and work-related experience, required.
• 5+ years of experience in communications, with a focus on external communications preferably gained in the pharmaceutical or diagnostics industry.
• Ability to manage indirectly: can ensure outcomes through indirect leadership.
• International or global work experience.
• Demonstrable abilities to develop and manage global communications strategies, plans, activities and teams.
• Outstanding strategic agility: thorough grasp of the healthcare/diagnostics industry and regularly applies such to create robust and innovative strategies.
• Outstanding consulting skills: active listening skills, ability to extract and quickly process key information, summarise key needs or interests of internal customers, and provide targeted and appropriate coaching, insights and recommendations.
• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills: consistently optimises results through skillful collaboration with others and driving excellence through influence without authority.
• Outstanding interpersonal and partnering skills: proven track record of building strong and sustainable relationships with internal and external partners/stakeholders and experience working effectively in a networked, matrix environment.
• Self-motivation: able to thrive in a non-hierarchical, self-organising environment, where teams form around projects and initiatives.
• Fluency in English (verbal and written)

What you will be offered:

• An opportunity to work in one of the world's most important pharmaceutical companies
• Modern campus with plenty of green spaces and meeting areas
• Central location in Basel
• Varied job profile
• Further training opportunities through temptraining
• Working in a dynamic and motivated team

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