Director, Global Communications

Job Description

Corporate Communications strives to be a strong team of trusted advisors who partner to drive business value. We advance the mission of the company and create a cohesive picture of our Company’s work in the world by shaping its narrative. We drive consistency around the Company narrative and improve our corporate reputation as a result.

Through our strategic approach, we ensure our company is positioned for success, its value is understood, and its reputation is protected. Our involvement with the entirety of the business – as strategic counselors – gives us a wide-angle perspective that we use to optimize opportunities, mitigate risk and achieve the company’s goals. We align as a cohesive team with shared goals and a clear picture of the results we pursue.

Position Description:

We are looking for a communications Director with expertise in change management communications and digital communications for a global organization.

This will be a key role within the Global Communications and Manufacturing team, focused on developing and executing strategic change management communications plans; leveraging and managing thought leadership opportunities; integrating corporate and divisional narrative across different levels and organizations; enabling and empowering leaders as communicators; engaging and understanding employees in every layer of our global organization starting at the factory shop floor; developing digital and other innovative solutions to improve strategy assimilation and transparency; improving content management across all manufacturing organizations; improving employee engagement through innovative storytelling that integrates our company’s narrative; ensuring a consistent approach across existing Corporate and Divisional programs.

• The Director supports the effectiveness and impact from all of these communications activities.

• This role works directly with colleagues and leadership to support business critical initiatives while integrating with the broader global communications function.

• This position reports to the Executive Director, Global Communications, Manufacturing Division.

Primary Activities:

• Supports the execution of strategies that positively impact and help the organization navigate through change, growth, crisis and employee affairs.

• Drives strategy communications plans, including empowering managers and other key stakeholders with information and tools to help them inform and influence their staff.

• Establishes and streamlines key communications processes to increase the efficacy of our narrative.

• Leverages thought leadership efforts to strengthen our Company’s reputation, while elevating the profile of key manufacturing senior leaders.

• Contributes to positioning the Manufacturing organization as an employer of choice among current and prospective employees.

• Surfaces stories of innovation, safety and diversity that can be communicated internally and externally to advance our Company’s narrative.

• Creates communications processes that increase message assimilation while reducing redundancies and minimizing noise.

• Manages external partners to ensure implementation of the communications strategy.

• Collaborates across the organization to support that the company’s communications are executed in a strategic, consistent and measurable manner and that communications resources are aligned to business priorities.

Position Qualifications:

Education:

• Bachelors degree

• Graduate degree preferred

Working Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• 9+ years of experience in Corporate Communications, or similar role, with extensive experience working in-house with publicly-traded company(ies);

• Track record of success in change management communications.

• Biased to think in new and innovative ways about internal and external communication and is fluent in social media and other technology enabled communications channels.

• Strategic thinker and hands-on individual who can take projects from concept to implementation in a team environment.

• Proven track record as a strong strategic communications leader who has demonstrated capabilities to drive organizational change, ensure employee engagement and manage cross-functional projects.

• Proven track record as intelligent risk taker and creative problem solver.

• Demonstrated success in collaborating across functions and across geographies.

• Excellent written and oral communications skills

• Proven ability to translate science/business/technical information, developments and challenges into compelling communications for key stakeholders

• Strong collaborator with effective relationship and partnership skills

• Maintains direction and focus through proactive, integrated planning; takes an organized, data-driven approach

• Possesses passion, energy, a detail orientation, and enthusiasm to drive results

Preferred Working Knowledge, Experience and Skills:

• Knowledge of working within a highly regulated industry; deep business knowledge, solid understanding of manufacturing across a global enterprise.

Our Support Functions deliver services and make recommendations about ways to enhance our workplace and the culture of our organization. Our Support Functions include HR, Finance, Information Technology, Legal, Procurement, Administration, Facilities and Security.

Who we are …

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for …

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace.

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Requisition ID:R202392