Associate Director, Internal Communications Job Details

Title: Associate Director, Internal Communications Location: MD, Gaithersburg - Corporate Headquarters Req: 02926 Major Duties and Responsibilities (including supervising others): Employee understanding of the company's business strategies and strategic initiatives, its people strategies and initiatives, and company policies are essential to effective execution against those strategies, strong business performance, organizational effectiveness and best-in-class employee engagement; a corporate scorecard priority. The Associate Director, Functional Internal Communications, will develop and implement high-impact, integrated communications plans to propel MedImmune in these areas. This position will provide strategic communications counsel, assessment, integrated planning and execution in support of senior leaders, managers and functional/cross-functional teams, with responsibility for supporting MedImmune's non-R&D teams and priority initiatives that align with the overall business strategy. This position also manages communications professionals and outside talent, who support enabling functions and manager communications and interactive channels, ensuring the strategic use of these channels. The major duties and responsibilities of the Associate Director, Functional Internal Communications, are: - Help lead and coordinate integrated internal communications strategies for MedImmune's non-R&D functions and strategic business initiatives, in coordination with corporate or enterprise-wide activities, as appropriate - Develop and execute strategic communication plans in support major business initiatives that impact the client group and/or the overall organization - Coordinate with Enterprise Communications Team to ensure that functional initiatives with all-employee impacts are integrated into the relevant communications plans and messaging, as appropriate - Provide strategic communications counsel to a range of business leaders within client organizations - Develop annual business communications plan, integrating with other staff on Internal Communications to ensure consistent, effective use of messages and internal channels - Ensure that business and functional messages and communications are relevant, consistent, credible, timely, and share a unified, on-brand look and feel that reflect the company's business priorities - Partner with other members of the Corporate Affairs team to ensure internal and external messages are aligned - Supervise internal communications activities in support of client groups and will be required to supervise Internal Communications staff (with direct or indirect authority) - Manage third-party vendors, including agencies, designers, printers and freelancers, and associated budgets to ensure strategic and cost-effective use of services - Support the work of the wider Corporate Affairs organization as needed Special Skills/Abilities: The candidate should demonstrate the ability to prioritize multiple tasks, effectively respond to office workflow issues, demonstrate accurate judgment of needs for support services, possess effective written and oral communication skills, actively support the team approach, and be a self-starter. Education: Bachelor's degree in communications, journalism, marketing or similar liberal arts major. Masters degree preferred. Experience: The candidate should have 8-10 years experience in internal communications in a corporate communications function and demonstrate an understanding of a global audience. In addition, the candidate should have a proven track record with project management and policy development and have demonstrated supervisory responsibilities (internal and/or external). In addition, they should demonstrate/have experience of: - Supporting senior executives; demonstrated ability to interact with, counsel and influence senior executives effectively - Proven ability to develop and execute results-driven communications strategies that are aligned with business goals and objectives - Writing-intensive internal communications work for medium to large organization within the past two years - Demonstrated ability to set and manage priorities, resources, goals, and project initiatives - Experience coordinating with communications professionals, vendors and agencies - Experience managing people or teams - Strategic planning skills - Excellent writing, editing, copywriting and proofreading skills - Ability to establish and meet deadlines, work under pressure and handle multiple priorities - Strong and demonstrated organizational skills with high level of attention to detail

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