Senior Manager Internal Communications (all genders)

Evotec WD; Hamburg; Vor Ort; EUR 60.000 - 90.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Evotec WD is seeking an experienced Internal Communications professional to translate complex scientific strategy into clear, employee-facing narratives across global sites. You will develop materials, townhall content, and leadership briefing notes to support organizational change; collaborate with HR and transformation teams; and ensure consistent tone and messaging across channels.

The role requires a strong writing skill set in English and German, with a proactive, collaborative mindset and

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or a related field.
• Several years of experience in a comparable position.
• Excellent communicator and relationship-builder.
• High degree of empathy, credibility and trustworthiness.
• Strong interpersonal intelligence with employee-centric mindset.

Aufgaben

• Translate strategic and organizational topics into clear and transparent narratives.
• Break down strategy and change goals into tangible, employee-relevant messages.
• Create actionable communication materials to enable leadership cascades.
• Draft clear and emphatic employee info materials / Q&A on ongoing org changes.
• Elaborate meaningful townhall content in alignment with management.
• Provide slides/draft speaking notes to management and participating senior leaders.
• Advise senior stakeholders on tone, wording and narrative framing.
• Establish an organized process and standard for identifying and communicating relevant internal news.
• Foster regular contact with international sites to ensure global internal communication cohesion.
• Identify story opportunities and shape internal storytelling around science, success stories, people.
• Coordinate internal content distribution timelines and logistics.
• Maintain and steer the Internal Communications editorial calendar.
• Coordinate townhall logistics, site communications and internal events.
• Coordinate senior leadership participation and contribution to townhalls.
• Coordinate timely approvals, and deliverables for townhalls and internal events.
• Act as primary contact for HR/Transformation regarding internal communication.
• Establish strong collaboration and alignment with HR/Transformation.
• Support communication materials for transformation initiatives and HR programs.
• Support HR/Transformation campaigns (e.g., culture, values, strategic priorities).
• Manage production workflows with design/video teams (internal or external).
• Ensure narrative, message, tone consistency across all internal channels.
• Maintain templates, internal communication toolkits, and brand standards.

Kenntnisse

Excellent communicator

Relationship-building

Empathy

Storytelling

Cross-functional collaboration

Internal service orientation

Proactive

Bilingual English/German

Ausbildung

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

MS Office

Jobbeschreibung

Responsibilities:

Content Creation and Transformation Communications

• Translate strategic and organizational topics into clear and transparent narratives
• Break down strategy and change goals into tangible, employee-relevant messages
• Create actionable communication materials to enable leadership cascades
• Draft clear and emphatic employee info materials / Q&A on ongoing org changes
• Elaborate meaningful townhall content in alignment with management
• Provide slides/draft speaking notes to management and participating senior leaders
• Advise senior stakeholders on tone, wording and narrative framing
• Establish an organized process and standard for identifying and communicating relevant internal news
• Foster regular contact with international sites to ensure global internal communication cohesion
• Identify story opportunities and shape internal storytelling around science, success stories, people

Internal Communications Operations

• Coordinate internal content distribution timelines and logistics
• Maintain and steer the Internal Communications editorial calendar
• Coordinate townhall logistics, site communications and internal events
• Coordinate senior leadership participation and contribution to townhalls
• Coordinate timely approvals, and deliverables for townhalls and internal events

Cross Functional Alignment

• Act as primary contact for HR/Transformation regarding internal communication
• Establish strong collaboration and alignment with HR/Transformation
• Support communication materials for transformation initiatives and HR programs

Project and Campaign Execution

• Support HR/Transformation campaigns (e.g., culture, values, strategic priorities)
• Manage production workflows with design/video teams (internal or external)

Governance & Quality Control

• Ensure narrative, message, tone consistency across all internal channels
• Maintain templates, internal communication toolkits, and brand standards

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations or a related field
• Several years of experience in a comparable position
• Excellent communicator and relationship-builder
• High degree of empathy, credibility and trustworthiness
• Strong interpersonal intelligence with employee-centric mindset
• Highly collaborative and solution-oriented
• Strong “internal service orientation” combined with strategic mindset
• High level of self-initiative, strong hands‑on mentality
• Independent, self-organized, pro‑active, high‑output
• Highly resilient, calm under pressure
• Internal comms expertise from corporate, HR or matrix org background
• Excellent writing skills (English + German)
• Experience in supporting organizational change communication
• Strong project management and coordination capabilities

FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.

ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.

Evotec is a life science company with a unique business model that delivers on its mission to discover and develop highly effective therapeutics and make them available to the patients. The Company’s multimodality platform comprises a unique combination of innovative technologies, data and science for the discovery, development, and production of first‑in‑class and best‑in‑class pharmaceutical products. Evotec leverages this “Data-driven R&D Autobahn to Cures” for proprietary projects and within a network of partners including all Top 20 Pharma and over 800 biotechnology companies, academic institutions, as well as other healthcare stakeholders. Evotec has strategic activities in a broad range of currently underserved therapeutic areas, including e.g. neurology, oncology, as well as metabolic and infectious diseases. Within these areas of expertise, Evotec aims to create the world‑leading co‑owned pipeline for innovative therapeutics and has to‑date established a portfolio of more than 200 proprietary and co‑owned R&D projects from early discovery to clinical development. Evotec operates globally with more than 5,000 highly qualified people. The Company’s 17 sites offer highly synergistic technologies and services and operate as complementary clusters of excellence. For additional information please go to www.evotec.com and follow us on X/Twitter @Evotec and LinkedIn.