Associate Director-Corporate Affairs

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Job Overview

The Employee fulfills the role of Associate Director – Corporate Affairs Netherlands. In the capacity of this role, the Employee, as a member of the Netherlands Lead Team, is responsible for the entire product portfolio of Eli Lilly Netherlands in the areas of communications, reputation management, market preparation, stakeholder management, and environmental influencing, and maintains strategic relationships with external stakeholders including the Dutch government, politics, policymakers, media, patient organizations, and lobby groups. The Employee is also required to develop an in-depth understanding of the disease areas and treatment landscapes within the therapeutic areas in which Lilly Netherlands operates.

Specific responsibilities include:

• Guide and direct all products and environmental shaping communications efforts for the entire products that Lilly Netherlands holds.

• Develop and lead disease state and consumer communications for patients, caregivers, and health care teams that ladder back to business strategic objectives.

• Provide support of data and regulatory milestones for Lilly’s work in the area that Lilly Netherlands offers products.

• Coordinate effectively with global BU Comm teams to ensure consistent, global implementation of Lilly’s communications.

• Maintain strong working relationships with cross-functional internal and external partners.

• Represent Lilly externally with stakeholders such as industry associations and lobby groups and engage with policy makers and politics to help shape policy that secures patient access to Lilly's medicines.

• Role model effective counsel to business leaders by listening, understanding, and providing credible expertise, relevant insights, and transparent feedback.

• Assignments could include oversight and/or hands-on support of message and materials development (i.e., press releases, website/microsite copy, video scripts, social content, standby statements, backgrounders) and issues preparedness, deploying innovative ways to drive support of Lilly’s work within the Lilly Netherlands marketed products communities.

Additional responsibilities include:

Media training, communications counsel and coaching internal business partners.

Anticipate, prioritize, and prepare to manage possible negative issues in the media.

Develop and edit communications for media such as press releases, internal Q&As, videos and fact sheets.

Develop and edit communications for internal use (newsletters, videos, emails, speeches, etc.).

Conduct and/or facilitate interviews with local, national, and international media outlets.

Partner with communications contacts in other affiliates.

Assist with other communication projects as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor’s/master degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, or a related field.

10+ years of communications experience (journalism, public relations, other communications roles, etc.) with a strong understanding of both traditional and social media and a vision for new innovative ways of communicating.

Experience supporting a business unit – demonstrated ability to develop deep understanding of brand, medical and business objectives and develop communications solutions that deliver on Lilly’s marketed products strategic goals.

Dutch Native (preferred) or very fluent and English Fluent

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