Patient Advocacy & Communication Senior Manager

Job Description Summary

Create meaningful strategies to engage patients through Advocacy and Communication, ensuring that Patient Engagement & Communications initiatives are developed and executed with the voice of the patient. Ensure daily operations run effectively and efficiently, identify and resolve upcoming issues, improve processes, and ensure quality deliverables.

Job Description

Major Accountability:

• Work collaboratively cross-divisional and/or cross-functionally to bring in critical patient insights to inform corporate strategies and key decisions.
• Develop and implement a comprehensive Patient Engagement & Communications strategy, ensuring that the company establishes strong relationships with patient organizations and media outlets, including Social Media.
• Drive all patient Engagement activities in assigned areas and build a patient-centric reputation for Novartis.
• Create and bring forward innovative approaches to partnering with patient groups/forums, including engagement in areas of strategic alignment.
• Build appropriate program engagement strategy, ensuring cross-functional alignment, including where relevant budget and resource allocation management.

Minimum Requirements:

• Complete graduation related to Healthcare and/or Communications
• Desirable Post-Graduation / MBA
• Patient Advocacy experience
• Communications experience
• Healthcare industry/Pharma experience
• Understanding of product life-cycle
• Project Management experience
• Financial Management experience

Languages:

• Advanced Portuguese
• Advanced English

You’ll receive:

Competitive salary, annual bonus, pension scheme, life insurance, 30 days annual leave, year-end recess, hybrid work model (home office 2x a week), flexible working arrangements, birthday day-off, maternity and paternity leave, subsidized dining facilities, health and dental insurance, employee recognition scheme, free parking lot (Santo Amaro and Cambe), Gympass, Space Energized for Life, gym (Santo Amaro) and virtual self-development tools.

Why consider Novartis?

236 million lives were touched by Novartis Innovative Medicines in 2022 worldwide, and while we’re proud of this, we know there is so much more we could do to help improve and extend people’s lives. We believe new insights, perspectives, and ground-breaking solutions can be found at the intersection of medical science and digital innovation. That a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment inspires new ways of working. We believe our potential can thrive and grow in an unbossed culture underpinned by integrity, curiosity, and flexibility. And we can reinvent what's possible when we collaborate with courage to aggressively and ambitiously tackle the world’s toughest medical challenges. Because the greatest risk in life is the risk of never trying!

Imagine what you could do at Novartis!

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• Accountability
• Business Networking
• Customer Experience
• Customer Service
• Flexibility
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• Microsoft Access
• Personal Development
• Pharmaceutics
• Press Releases
• Product Placement
• Regulatory Compliance
• Sales
• Software Release
• Waterfall Project Management