Director, Leadership and Associate Engagement (d/f/m)

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Job Description

>20,000! That’s the number of employees at Sandoz. Our Internal Communications team plays a key role in engaging more than 20,000 associates around the world, helping them to better understand our strategy and feel connected to our purpose and culture.

For our Global Communications team at Sandoz we are looking for a Director, Leadership and Associate Engagement (d/f/m). Within this role you will be responsible for developing and implementing internal communications across our worldwide Sandoz network to support strategic business objectives and drive leadership and associate engagement. You will play a key role in driving leadership ability to communicate our strategic narrative, link leaders and associates to company purpose and culture, and engage them around the future of Sandoz. Furthermore, you will also act to strengthen information cascading and instil continuous listening and two-way interaction.

This role aims to help employees feel connected to the company and its purpose in a way that motivates them to perform their job to the best of their abilities and encourages them to strive to reach their maximum potential. The position has no functional direct reports and requires a matrix management of project teams.

This position is based in Holzkirchen (near Munich).

Your key responsibilities:

• Development and implementation of global internal communication strategies that support business objectives by delivering ongoing improvement in leadership and associate engagement. This includes program development of appropriate content and activities and development of and measurement against appropriate KPIs
• Develop strategies that continually improve communication cascade across the company and implement communication tactics, including events such as webcasts or town halls
• Develop programs to continuously improve leadership’s ability to communicate effectively and authentically
• Develop a compelling strategic narrative for internal use in close collaboration with members of the Communications team and key business stakeholders
• Liaise closely with the People & Organization (Human Resources) team as well as members of the Communications team to engage leaders around our change and culture journey
• Drive the use of digital at Sandoz. Increase leader and associate use of internal social media channels to support more effective and engaging two-way communication in collaboration with our Communications team
• Develop a leadership journey and program including event management, such as the Sandoz Leadership Meetings and Leaders Calls
• Drive the use of data and measurement to inform more strategic leadership communications.
  

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Minimum Requirements

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in a communications role within a major corporation or public relations agency, at least 2 years in internal communications
• Master or Bachelor Degree in Communications, Business or related area
• English-native; additional languages a plus
• Strong experience in editing and creating of engaging stories and video content to build compelling multimedia assets
• Excellent organizational and event planning skills, ability to balance priorities and to consistently meet deadlines
• Ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization and collaboratively with team, committed to create “Best in Class” communications programs
• Proactive self-starter with a hands-on approach
• Interest in applying of new communication technologies and solutions
• Experience of working in a multi-cultural and diverse international environment
• Open for occasional travel
  

Why Sandoz?

500 million patients were touched by Sandoz generic and biosimilar medicines in 2020 and while we’re proud of this, we know there is more we could do to continue to help pioneer access to medicines for people around the world.

How will we do this? We believe new insights, perspectives and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working.

We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity and flexibility. And we can reinvent what’s possible, when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do here at Sandoz!

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Sandoz is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse team’s representative of the patients and communities we serve.

Hiring decisions are only based on the qualification for the position, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age and disability.

The law provides for severely disabled / equal applicants the opportunity to involve the local representative body for disabled employees (SBV) in the application process. If you would like to request this, please let us know in advance as a note on your CV.

Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to learn more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network

Division

SANDOZ

Business Unit

GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS SZ

Country

Germany

Work Location

Holzkirchen (near Munich)

Company/Legal Entity

Sandoz International

Functional Area

Communications & Public Affairs

Job Type

Full Time

Employment Type

Regular

Shift Work

No

Early Talent

No

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