Global Communications Director, Vaccines Innovation

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Global Communications Director, Vaccines Innovation

The importance of vaccines has never been clearer, and the pace of technological innovation has rarely been greater. GSK has an industry-leading pipeline of vaccines and the broadest portfolio of vaccines platform technologies – vaccines play a critical role for GSK’s contribution to healthcare around the world, and for the company’s future growth. The global Vaccines Innovation Communications team lead all external and internal communications for this exciting innovation focus area for GSK. Supporting the Vaccines R&D organization the team delivers global external and internal communication strategies, planning, and execution. This senior role offers a unique opportunity to provide Communications leadership associated with one of the biggest global health stories of our generation and a key strategic priority for GSK as it launches as a new company.

As the Communications business partner to the Vaccines R&D Leadership Team our role – in close collaboration with the GSK R&D Communications and Vaccines Product Communications teams - is planning and executing strategic and impactful communication content and activities, supporting senior leader engagement, and delivering insights-based recommendations on communication tools, and channels.

This role is accountable for strategic and external communication of our key innovation areas and pipeline assets, specifically the respiratory vaccines including RSV Maternal, COVID-19 solutions, combination vaccines, flu assets, and some of our early science and development stories. The role is also accountable for the development of communication strategies and implementation to external and internal audiences; plus content creation, preparation of senior management for key engagement opportunities, and issue management and prevention.

This role advises the most senior levels of GSK’s Vaccines R&D executives, regularly working closely with senior R&D leaders (site heads, RDLT members, VDLs, etc), reports to the head of global Vaccines Innovation Comms, and will closely interact with a number of experienced Comms leaders at global and local level, incl. Corporate Media Relations, Investor Relations and the Corporate Digital Team. This role will deliver impactful, creative and engaging communications to tell GSK’s vaccines innovation story – externally and internally – to ensure awareness of our continued position as an industry leader in this area.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, develop, and execute creative and impactful communications strategies and campaigns
• Provide strategic communications advice and support to leaders (e.g. Vaccines R&D Leadership team, Vaccine Development Leads, etc) in their external engagement. Participate in cross-functional teams to develop and execute impactful communication strategies and assets
• create and develop high quality content for external communication based on audience and channel insights (including Q&A documents, press materials, Comms packs, leader briefings, key messages, videos and other digital assets)
• Provide focused strategic advice on internal communication to select senior leaders (e.g. head of Vx R&D, RDLT members) for activities with high impact for the Vaccines business and GSK as a whole
• Work in close partnership with the Audience Communications teams (media relations, digital Comms, regional Communications leads, Local Operating Companies) to ensure alignment and impact of vaccines messaging and content
• Delivering in a dynamic, high-pace environment, which means it needs to swiftly react to external and internal changes and adjusting the communication approaches accordingly. Issues and crisis management to ensure – where possible – issues are avoided and – if they arrive – are well managed.
• Monitor and track impact and success of communications tactics via a variety of metrics incl media monitoring, digital channels, internal engagement, etc. and continually adjust and improve based on measured insights
• Closely collaborate with internal Comms team to ensure a holistic and coordinated approach to communicating to employees related to significant pipeline news and our innovation stories
  

Why you?

Key Requirements

• Academic degree
• At least 10 years experience in communications (with a focus on strategic and external communications)
• Significant experience working in the pharmaceutical industry and passion for healthcare (alternatively in other highly regulated industries)
• Proven expertise in developing, implementing and measuring communication strategies and programmes to support achievement of business objectives.
• Very strong writing skills, ideally English native speaker, alternatively high proficiency in written and spoken English
• Ability to make sense of complex (scientific) topics and to translate these into impactful stories for broad audiences
• Able to engage with and deliver results in a complex matrix environment
• Experience in advising senior leaders in their communication
• Excellent listening and analytical skills
• Strong planning and project management skills
• Exceptional team player and ability to operate with the highest integrity and discretion
• Ability to operate efficiently under pressure
• Experienced working in global organisations, with good cultural awareness and sensitivity
  

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