Your responsibilities:

Your responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Develop and implement comprehensive external communication and patient advocacy strategies that enhance the company’s key priorities.
• Oversee the company’s disease awareness campaigns and coordinate with marketing, medical and public affairs teams to ensure synergic alignment with overall business strategies and objectives. 
• Management of internal communication plans and associate engagement strategies in partnership with the People & Organization team.
• Act as a strategic business partner bringing to the life a predictive and enterprise mindset, data and trends approach, KPIs and performance tracking. 
• Manage agencies and other external vendors to secure maximum return on investment, impact measurement, operational excellence and business impact. 
• Manage day-to-day strategic and operational business matters, including budget and resource allocation tracking; follow-up to third parties’ agreements; create and implement the local communication governance and report to the local and regional teams the transfer of value expenses according to the timelines. 
• Deploy Patient Advocacy strategy in alignment with business and corporate priorities, ensuring integration of patient’s insights / voice across the board. 
• Manage the implementation of Communication policies, trainings and processes to ensure consistency of Novartis brand position.

Major Accountabilities for Patient Advocacy

• Work collaboratively cross-divisionally and /or cross-functionally to bring in critical patient insights to inform corporate and brand strategies and key decisions.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive Patient Advocacy strategy, ensuring that the company establishes strong, sustainable and impactful relationships with patient organizations / Patient KOLs (Key Opnion Leaders).
• Drive all patient advocacy activities in assigned areas and build a patient centric reputation for Novartis
• Create and bring forward innovative approaches to partnering with patient groups /forums, including engagement in areas of strategic alignment

What you’ll bring to the role:

• At least 7 years of strategic and operational experience in communications, advocacy, within the pharmaceutical industry is required
• Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations is required. Advanced degree is a plus.
• negotiation skills and budget execution knowledge is a must.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills (In Spanish and English)
• Ability to work independently and with peers at across functional areas.

Languages

• Spanish (Native | Bilingual)
• Advanced English 

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