Global Brand Communications Director

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Oversee the global brand communications strategy, encompassing launch readiness, data milestone planning, and lifecycle communications.

• Ensure the brand narrative is consistently maintained across all channels and stakeholders.

• Collaborate with the Disease State Awareness lead on the product media strategy, including channel selection, prioritization, and media investment (paid, earned, and owned).

• Develop and nurture relationships with key international and specialty media.

• Assist affiliates in local media engagement to guarantee consistency, compliance, and quality.

• Direct the brand congress communications roadmap (pre-, during-, and post-congress).

• Supervise the creation of global congress toolkits and ensure robust local amplification across markets.

• Coordinate cross-functional alignment (Medical, IR, Compliance) for data communication and manage media engagement.

• Create and deploy global communication toolkits, digital assets, and campaign playbooks for affiliate utilization.

• Ensure the development of high-quality communication materials, including narratives, Q&As, digital content, and presentations.

• Collaborate closely with country teams to enhance capabilities and drive high-quality execution.

• Manage agency relationships, ensuring strategic alignment, quality delivery, and efficient execution.

• Work with Medical and Brand teams to uphold scientific integrity and deliver strong educational impact.

• Partner with Community Engagement to amplify the patient voice and strengthen external partnerships.

• Coordinate with Corporate/IR Communications to maintain consistency and clarity in external messaging.

• Spearhead global insight gathering (media landscape, social listening, advisory boards) to inform strategy.

• Establish and monitor KPIs to assess communication effectiveness and optimize impact.

• Continuously enhance communication strategies based on data, insights, and changing market conditions.

• Foster ongoing improvement of communications capabilities across international markets.

• Introduce and expand best practices for data-driven communications and encourage the use of new tools, including AI, to boost efficiency, personalization, and impact.

• Manage the budget for communication programs; forecast, track ROI, and reallocate for impact while adhering to SOPs, industry codes, and corporate values.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in brand communications/PR within the healthcare sector, particularly in pharmaceutical or biotech environments.

• Proven success in leading intricate, multi-market communications strategies at regional or global levels.

• Strong strategic mindset capable of translating business priorities into effective communications and reputation initiatives.

• Proven ability to work cross-functionally, lead without direct authority, and manage complex situations.

• Excellent relationship-building skills, adept at fostering trusted partnerships across functions (Commercial, Medical, Market Access, Regulatory, Policy, Patient Advocacy) and across country affiliates.

• Exceptional communication and influencing skills across various functions, cultures, and seniority levels; fluent in English.

• Strong judgment and decision-making abilities, with the capacity to prioritize in fast-paced, dynamic environments.

• High energy, creativity, agility, and a proactive, solution-oriented mindset.

• Strong team player who can work independently while maintaining high accuracy and accountability.

• Proficient with approval systems and compliant content workflows (e.g., Veeva).

• Familiarity with digital and modern communication tools; experience with AI-enabled content development within company policies is a plus.

• Willingness to travel approximately 20% of working time.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation for your contributions.

• Focus on work/life balance.

• A collaborative and team-oriented atmosphere.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

• The chance to make a positive impact by helping ultra-rare disease patients in need of life-saving treatments.