Senior Director, Internal Communications, Corporate Affairs
Company: Disability Solutions
Location: Princeton
Posted on: May 7, 2024
Job Description:
Working with UsChallenging. Meaningful. Life-changing. Those
aren't words that are usually associated with a job. But working at
Bristol Myers Squibb is anything but usual. Here, uniquely
interesting work happens every day, in every department. From
optimizing a production line to the latest breakthroughs in cell
therapy, this is work that transforms the lives of patients, and
the careers of those who do it. You'll get the chance to grow and
thrive through opportunities uncommon in scale and scope, alongside
high-achieving teams rich in diversity. Take your career farther
than you thought possible.Bristol Myers Squibb recognizes the
importance of balance and flexibility in our work environment. We
offer a wide variety of competitive benefits, services and programs
that provide our employees with the resources to pursue their
goals, both at work and in their personal lives. Read more:
careers.bms.com/working-with-us .Overview:The Senior Director,
Internal Communications, will be responsible for leading the
overall strategy to elevate and drive consistency across our
internal messaging. The individual will play a critical role in
ensuring effectiveness of all communication channels and content
ensuring engagement from employees and deepening the understanding
of the business strategy.Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and Execute Internal Communications Strategy:
- Develop and implement a comprehensive internal communications
strategy aligned with the company's mission and objectives.
- Drive consistency in messaging and ensure alignment with the
company's values, culture, and brand.
- Identify and utilize appropriate communication channels to
reach and engage employees effectively.
- Lead standardization across communications to drive consistency
and developing templates to minimize the editing process.
- Align with the translation leader on translation strategy for
planned content.Team Leadership and Management:
- Lead and manage a team of internal communicators, providing
guidance, support, and mentorship.
- Set clear expectations of colleague contributions, monitor
performance, and provide regular feedback to ensure the team's
success.
- Foster a collaborative and inclusive work environment that
encourages creativity, innovation, and continuous
improvement.Oversee Editorial Strategy and Content Creation:
- Provide strategic guidance for the comprehensive editorial
strategy for internal platforms including intranet and digital
signage, ensuring alignment with business strategy and target
audience needs.
- Connect content calendar with key company events to drive
maximum impact of content.
- Guide cross-functional teams to identify and prioritize content
themes, topics, and formats that resonate with our audience.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices to
continuously improve the intranet's content strategy.
- Ensure engaging and informative content for the intranet,
including articles, posts, videos, infographics, and other
multimedia format that drives understanding of the business
strategy.
- Coordinate with colleagues across Corporate Affairs to
understand business and functional priorities and incorporate into
content curation.Metrics:
- Establish metrics and analytics to create an effective
measurement framework to evaluate effectiveness of internal
communications channels and messaging in supporting colleague
engagement.
- Stakeholder Management:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders,
including Leader communicators, subject matter experts, and
cross-functional teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to gather input, feedback, and
insights to inform content creation and communication
strategies.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, providing guidance on
communication best practices and strategies.Internal Initiatives:
- Play a lead role in key initiatives to ensure the internal
communications needs are considered.
- Influence the outcomes by providing effective internal
communications consultation.Qualifications & Experience:
- 15+ years of professional experience in employee communications
in Pharmaceuticals or other highly regulated industry.
- Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, content creation,
channel strategy and digital media best practices, including how to
adapt and optimize content delivery across channels and
audiences.
- Strong leadership of, and collaboration with, internal team
members and cross-functional partners at all levels of the
organization.
- Proven experience designing and executing communications
strategies in coordination with business partners in support of
enterprise priorities.
- Acute business acumen and a deep understanding of
organizational issues and how to resolve challenges among competing
workstreams.
- Strong strategic planning, problem-solving and decision-making
skills.
- Self-directed with proven ability to meet tight deadlines and
balance multiple initiatives with competing priorities.
- High level of influence, accountability, responsibility, and
ability to influence at the senior level.
- Proven experience working in a matrixed environment and operate
within a complex, fast-paced and changing environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, or
a related field. Master's degree and/or change management
certification a plus. If you come across a role that intrigues you
but doesn't perfectly line up with your resume, we encourage you to
apply anyway. You could be one step away from work that will
transform your life and career. Uniquely Interesting Work,
Life-changing CareersWith a single vision as inspiring as
Transforming patients' lives through science--- , every BMS
employee plays an integral role in work that goes far beyond
ordinary. Each of us is empowered to apply our individual talents
and unique perspectives in an inclusive culture, promoting
diversity in clinical trials, while our shared values of passion,
innovation, urgency, accountability, inclusion and integrity bring
out the highest potential of each of our colleagues.On-site
Protocol BMS has a diverse occupancy structure that determines
where an employee is required to conduct their work. This structure
includes site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and
remote-by-design jobs. The occupancy type that you are assigned is
determined by the nature and responsibilities of your role:
Site-essential roles require 100% of shifts onsite at your assigned
facility. Site-by-design roles may be eligible for a hybrid work
model with at least 50% onsite at your assigned facility. For these
roles, onsite presence is considered an essential job function and
is critical to collaboration, innovation, productivity, and a
positive Company culture. For field-based and remote-by-design
roles the ability to physically travel to visit customers, patients
or business partners and to attend meetings on behalf of BMS as
directed is an essential job function. BMS is dedicated to ensuring
that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent
recruitment process, reasonable workplace
accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in their roles.
Applicants can request a reasonable workplace
accommodation/adjustment prior to accepting a job offer. If you
require reasonable accommodations/adjustments in completing this
application, or in any part of the recruitment process, direct your
inquiries to adastaffingsupport@bms.com . Visit careers.bms.com/
eeo -accessibility to access our complete Equal Employment
Opportunity statement. BMS cares about your well-being and the
well-being of our staff, customers, patients, and communities. As a
result, the Company strongly recommends that all employees be fully
vaccinated for Covid-19 and keep up to date with Covid-19 boosters.
BMS will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest
and conviction records, pursuant to applicable laws in your
area.Any data processed in connection with role applications will
be treated in accordance with applicable data privacy policies and
regulations.
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