Job Description

Are you passionate about connecting with people? Do you have strong communication skills to motivate and engage with employees and stakeholders? Do you aspire to work for a company, which brings life-changing treatments to its patients? If so, we have just opened a Senior Manager for Media Relations & Communication. If this is you, join our team and apply today!

About the department
Novo Nordisk is the world\xe2\x80\x99s leading pharmaceutical healthcare company, headquartered in Denmark. The company provides lifesaving medicine to patients with diabetes, obesity, and other rare diseases.
Novo Nordisk Business Area South-East Asia (BASEA) is the business area within Region Asia Pacific which focuses on the vast opportunities and challenges presented by the 11 countries covering more than 700 employees over 5 affiliate offices and business entities. Novo Nordisk BASEA is an exciting place to work, we put patients and people first in our business and pride ourselves in achieving our goals, which feeds into our purpose of improving the lives of the patients within the therapy areas our products treat. This position will report to Communication Director.
Novo Nordisk Singapore has been consistently recognized as the employer of choice in Singapore for 3 consecutive years - Best Places to Work for 2021, 2022, 2023 and Best Places to Work & Best Places To Work for Women for 2022.

The position
The Senior Manager for Media Relations & Communication will manage and secure Novo Nordisk\xe2\x80\x99s reputation across Region Asia Pacific (APAC) through communication, media relations and issues management. The role will also strengthen Region APAC leadership team\xe2\x80\x99s media engagement capabilities by facilitating media training, issue management training in alignment with media relations policies and practices. The role will also provide judicious guidance and oversight for affiliates in product communications overall and particularly in Obesity (including launch strategies/LAP, and project plans) and assist in developing launch and post-communication plans, as well as aid in corporate branding campaigns and disease awareness campaigns.
Other role tasks are as follows but are not limited to:

• Co-creating and/or approving media responses in collaboration with affiliate teams in alignment with organisational media priorities, Identifies and counsels affiliates on proactive communications and media opportunities to position Novo Nordisk as a leader in obesity, diabetes and other chronic diseases, and reviews media policies and procedures in affiliates, ensure alignment with Global media and issues management practices and policies and provide improvement guidelines to communications managers.
• Ensures affiliates have proactive media relations/PR plans in place \xe2\x80\x93 both to prepare for launch as well as in general awareness and patient engagement, and works with affiliates to utilize global press releases to drive engagement while keeping within compliance guidelines
• Manages Novo Nordisk\xe2\x80\x99s reputation across all portfolios and with specific focus on obesity and provides timely and accurate issues management counsel to Regional and affiliate teams, as well as provide judicious communications counsel to affiliates during crises and issues including obesity and diabetes and support in managing the response to emerging issues. Counsels and assists affiliate communications in managing the response to emerging issues, and drives management monitoring and risk identification, provides guidance to affiliate leadership where required.
• Provides planned guidance for affiliates in obesity communications plans (including launch strategies/LAP, and project plans) and assist in developing launch and post communication plans, as well as input on communications strategy to the obesity cross-functional launch team and others when needed and assist affiliate communicators in developing launch and post-market plans for new products in the portfolio.
• Aid in corporate branding campaigns as well as disease awareness campaigns, and drive thought leadership in obesity on LinkedIn and other relevant channels for senior management.

Qualifications

• Must hold a master\xe2\x80\x99s degree in communication, Business Administration or equivalent.
• Must have a minimum of 7+ years\xe2\x80\x99 of experience in Business Knowledge understanding in Southeast Asia market specifically in Media relations or PR, preferably in a pharmaceutical, life science or healthcare industries.
• Self-motivated, independent, with solution mindset, flexible and adaptable to change.
• Must have excellent social skills, as well as written and oral communication skills.

Working at Novo Nordisk
We are a proud life-science company, and life is our reason to exist. We\xe2\x80\x99re inspired by life in all its forms and shapes, ups and downs, opportunities, and challenges. For employees at Novo Nordisk, life means many things \xe2\x80\x93 from the building blocks of life that form the basis of ground-breaking scientific research, to our rich personal lives that motivate and energise us to perform our best at work. Ultimately, life is why we\xe2\x80\x99re all here - to ensure that people can lead a life independent of chronic disease.

Contact
Upload your CV to our online career page (click on Apply and follow the instructions).

Deadline
3 January 2024

We commit to an inclusive recruitment process and equality of opportunity for all our job applicants.

At Novo Nordisk we recognize that it is no longer good enough to aspire to be the best company in the world. We need to aspire to be the best company for the world and we know that this is only possible with talented employees with diverse perspectives, backgrounds and cultures. We are therefore committed to creating an inclusive culture that celebrates the diversity of our employees, the patients we serve and communities we operate in. Together, we\xe2\x80\x99re life changing.

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