Global Communications and Government Affairs Director, Early Stage Vaccines

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Posted Date: Mar

Global Communications and Government Affairs Director, Early-Stage Vaccines

GSK has an industry-leading pipeline of vaccines and the broadest portfolio of vaccines platform technologies in the industry. Vaccines play a critical role for GSK's contribution to healthcare around the world, and for the company's future growth.

The Global Vaccines Product and Pipeline Communications and Government Affairs (CGA) Team lead external and internal communications and government affairs for GSK's vaccines pipeline and portfolio. The CGA Director for Early-Stage Vaccines is accountable for strategic internal and external communication of our key innovation areas and pipeline assets, early science and development stories and pipeline government affairs support.

This role advises senior GSK Vaccines R&D executives, regularly working closely with senior R&D leaders (site heads, Research & Development Leadership Team (RDLT) members, Vaccines Development Leads (VDLs), etc).

The role reports to the CGA Head of Early Stage and Neisseria vaccines and will closely interact with experienced CGA 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 include, but are not limited to:

• Plan, develop, and execute creative and impactful communications and government affairs 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.
• Closely collaborate with the internal comms team to ensure a holistic and coordinated approach to communicating with employees related to significant pipeline news and our innovation stories.
• Work in close partnership with the audience communications teams (media relations, digital communications, regional communications leads, engagement with local operating companies) to ensure alignment and impact of vaccines messaging and content.
• Delivering in a dynamic, high-pace environment, with ability 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.
• Work with government affairs teams to ensure appropriate engagement and messaging for early-stage vaccines.
• Monitor and track impact and success of communications tactics and adjust and improve based on measured insights.

Why you?

Basic Qualifications:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

• Minimum 10 years' experience in communications and government affairs.
• Experience working in the pharmaceutical industry with a passion for healthcare.
• Proven expertise in developing, implementing, and measuring communication strategies and programmes to support achievement of business objectives.
• Very strong writing skills, 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.
• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

If you have the following characteristics, it would be a plus:

• Previous stakeholder management experience leading complex global vaccine projects.
• Experienced working in global organisations, with good cultural awareness and sensitivity.
• Experience in advising senior leaders in their communication.

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Why GSK?

GSK is a global biopharma company with a special purpose - to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together - so we can positively impact the health of billions of people and deliver stronger, more sustainable shareholder returns - as an organisation where people can thrive. Getting ahead means preventing disease as well as treating it, and we aim to impact the health of 2.5 billion people around the world in the next 10 years.

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