Job Details

* **Lead and Execute Strategy:** Drive the development and execution of comprehensive therapeutic area (TA) communications and advocacy strategies that align with business objectives and portfolio priorities. Establish clear goals and measurable KPIs in collaboration with internal stakeholders to ensure strategic focus, accountability, and high-performance outcomes.* **Data-Driven Decision Making**: Leverage insights, trends, and analytics to inform strategies, and provide business leaders with real-time counsel on external developments.* **Therapeutic Area and Franchise Narrative**: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to shape and deliver a compelling therapeutic area and HIV franchise story tailored to the business strategies across HIV treatment, prevention and cure, ensuring alignment across key internal and stakeholders.* **Product Development and Regulatory Milestone Communications:** Drive communications announcing key product development and regulatory milestones as pipeline candidates advance through development.* **Strategic Advisory Role**: Provide counsel to the HIV TA leadership team and cross-functional leaders on reputational issues, ensuring alignment and market readiness. Partner with government affairs and policy on strategic imperatives.* **Voice of Key Audiences**: Amplify the perspectives of external stakeholders, integrating reputational considerations into core strategies and business decisions.* **Issue Monitoring & Response**: Identify reputational opportunities and challenges, leading internal efforts to manage and respond effectively to priority issues.* **Cross-Functional Alignment**: Serve as a bridge between public affairs centers of expertise, ensuring TA-specfic strategies align with corporate communications and corporate responsibility teams. Ensure a structure and approach that complements existing teams and builds collaboration.* **Stakeholder Engagement**: Build and maintain relationships with key ACE and Global internal and external stakeholders, including Commercial, Government Affairs, Medical Affairs, Marketing, policymakers, media, patient groups, advocacy organizations, and industry partners.- **Team Leadership & Development:** Lead and support the communications and advocacy teams across the HIV TA to plan and execute integrated plans of action across corporate, internal and product communications. Develop a high-performing, future-ready public affairs team equipped with modern skills, clear objectives, and strategic priorities.* Global public affairs leadership experience, preferably in pharmaceutical or biotech, including previous management of global teams and a reputation for outstanding leadership, team building & recruiting. Proven ability to develop strong teams.* Proven experience in management of product launches* Demonstrated experience shaping integrated communications and advocacy strategies that align with business priorities and reputation goals, particularly experience in product launches.* Strong understanding of the European healthcare environment and the intersection of political, social, and commercial dynamics.* Track record of effective external stakeholder engagement, specifically in developing strong relationships, particularly with the patient community, and engaging academic experts and healthcare advocates with empathy and confidence.* Strong executive presence and ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional teams.* Experience in issue management and crisis communications, corporate reputation management, and internal alignment.* Proven ability to develop and lead high-performing communication teams, individuals and leaders.#J-18808-Ljbffr