Communications Manager-Edwards Lifesciences, Nyon

 

 

 

Role and Purpose:

  • The role involves planning and implementing Edwards EMEA’s employee communications strategy and leading on related activities.
  • The role is an integral position within the Communications team. It will contribute to helping the organization to establish a strong reputation internally and externally befitting the company’s market leading position in the science of heart valves and hemodynamic monitoring.

Major Job Functions:

  • Develop, implement and execute the employee communications strategy as part of the regional communication strategy. Ensure a direct link with the HR team to align on the One Edwards employee engagement policies.
  • Provide internal executive communications support, particularly to the EMEA Corporate Vice President and regional Executive Leadership Team (ELT) members. This will include managing corporate communications on SalesForce Chatter, at the Annual Sales Meeting, for the President’s Club and creating internal engagement opportunities for senior regional executives.
  • Manage corporate-level employee communications projects, including providing support with “cascade communications” for projects emanating from regional ELT members. This will involve close collaboration with HR, BUs Heads and Country leaders.
  • Provide support for change management projects within the EMEA region.
  • Build the Annual Employee Social Media Involvement Plan, working in collaboration with HR, BUs Heads, Country Directors/Managers – e.g.: MedTech Week social media ambassadors, #DrivenByPatients campaigns, etc.
  • Manage the production of the internal employee magazine, motivational patient videos, video materials from the EMEA Corporate Vice President and one HEART… announcements from VP level upwards. Provide tools to allow country HR teams and departmental managers to undertake their own local or managerial-level announcements.
  • Manage the All Employee Meetings hosted in Nyon and provide guidance for other employee presentations across the region.

Required Education/Skills:

  • Bachelor’s degree required.
  • Public relations or employee engagement skills. Native language skills in English and, ideally, native fluency in another European language.

Required Experience:

  • At least five years’ experience in communications or journalism. Strong English writing skills and knowledge of digital communications is a must. Experience communicating in a highly regulated scientific or health fields would be an asset.
  • The incumbent must be comfortable balancing the demands of different internal and external stakeholders in a multicultural, multinational environment.
  • They must be able to both plan convincing and detailed communications campaigns and be able to respond to unexpected issues and crises.
  • They need to be comfortable working in a fast-moving, developing and unpredictable environment
  • They should be able to gain sufficient understanding of complex medical issues to communicate them in a simple, clear and effective way.

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Communications Manager/Campaign Communicator-UNI Global Union, Nyon

UNI Global Union is the voice of over 20 million service sector workers around the world. Working with our affiliated unions, UNI represents workers in over 150 countries in industries such as the cleaning & security, commerce, finance; telecommunications and IT.

Our mission is to build power for working people in our sectors through growing strong unions. Our “UNI Breaking Through” strategy is our plan to organise the global service sector workforce and ensure respect and dignity in the global workplace.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Communications Manager/Campaign Communicator (CM/CC) to join our communications team based in our office in Nyon, Switzerland. The ideal candidate will have at least 5 years’ experience in a similar role for a national union and speak and write fluent English as well as (preferably) either Spanish or French.

The CM/CC will focus on strategic communications and high impact media relations to help UNI promote its message and win campaigns.

The CM/CC will write website articles, campaign materials, updates to social media and press releases as well outreach to journalists and bloggers. The successful candidate will also work with our web programmer, videographers and graphic designers to produce compelling and persuasive multimedia campaign materials.

The CM/CC reports to the Director of Communications and will work closely with UNI SCORE (Strategic Campaigns Organising Research and Education) and other UNI departments on particular campaigns.

UNI Communications is a small and dynamic team so flexibility is essential. Along with campaign communications duties, the CM/CC will be asked to contribute to basic communications team tasks and carry out administrative duties essential to the smooth running of the department.

Responsibilities
Developing effective messaging for campaigns under the supervision of the UNI Director of Communications and the other heads of departments
Writing and editing copy for the UNI website, leaflets, press releases, emails, web and social networking as well as other campaign communication documents
Write op-eds and contribute to speech-writing for senior UNI team
Ensuring the UNI website and social media promotes campaigns effectively
Devise, develop and innovate social media strategies, including online activism, as part of the overall communications strategy
Contributing to and/or overseeing production and promotion of campaign communications materials created by UNI staff, including manuals, newsletters and petitions
Working with policy, creative and technical people internally and externally to create videos, images and layouts for campaign materials
Soliciting community-generated content and video as campaigning tools
In co-ordination with other communications team members run and operate UNI’s television studio andits UNI TV YouTube channel
Providing administrative support to the department

Competencies
Experience of running communication campaigns for unions
Ability to write and communicate in English to a high professional standard
Knowledge of other languages a distinct advantage
Experience of writing press and publicity materials, including opinion articles
Specific knowledge of using and developing social activism tools with an emphasis on innovation
Knowledge of video filming and editing or demonstrable aptitude to learn
Strong administrative skills

The person may be moved to other departments within the office. We are an equal opportunities employer.

The successful candidate will be expected to move to Nyon and to take up the position as soon as possible after the interview.

Any candidate wishing to apply should complete the application form (available from www.uniglobalunion.org/jobs) and return it with a recent colour photo and other relevant information to:

Colin Medland, Head of Operations, UNI Global Union Email: jobs@uniglobalunion.org

Deadline for applications: 09.00am, 28 October 2016

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PR Manager, GlaxoSmithKline Nyon

Details: 
As a PR Manager based in Nyon, you will be part of the Category Communications & Content team with the responsibility for leading the development of earned media & content strategies that will be delivered in-market to drive awareness, revenue and equity for Consumer Healthcare’s brands.
You will provide a high level of credibility, and strong interpersonal skills, in order to champion the role of earned media with senior stakeholders.

Your responsibilities include in detail:
• Working as part of the Category Organisation, this role will interface with a high number of internal and external stakeholders including senior management and be required to work in a highly matrixed environment
• Building close relationships with local markets to ensure that all campaigns are relevant and impactful and aligned to the brand positioning
• Working with Brand Managers/Directors to embed PR into the marketing mix, securing the relevant budget to support the activity representing PR at brand planning sessions
• Driving proactive media relations skills. Experience of effective issues and crisis management, experience of creating and implementing brand communications campaigns and the ability to lead the business as part of leadership team
• Managing the approvals of all PR materials and toolkits with internal stakeholders and through the formal approval processes (CRC)
• Ensuring the activation of earned media within priority markets, briefing on the PR campaign concepts, deploying the toolkits, tracking performance against global KPIs and evaluation of results globally
• Partnering with Consumer Relations to effectively monitor media and consumer conversations to identify relevant insights, trends and opportunities to capitalise on or inform future strategy and plans
• Partnering with Content and Digital colleagues to ensure synergy and alignment on all plans across the marketing touch points and identifies opportunities to drive stronger execution
• Advising GSK Corporate channels of brand plans to identify relevant opportunities to maximise awareness on GSK owned channels
• Partnering with Global Internal Communications to identify relevant product activities to leverage internally, providing relevant materials and approving messaging/content
• Building and retaining strong relationships with regional communications colleagues to deliver activation plans to support the global campaigns

As a successful PR Manager, you have a strong experience of working in a global organization with varied cultures, with proven ability to manage global brands at a central and local level. Further you have demonstrated ability to influence and manage others within a matrix organization.

Furthermore you display the following qualifications and competencies:
• Minimum of 5 years of experience within an FMCG environment on a similar role
• Excellent networker with ability to build trusted relationships and partnerships with stakeholders at a strategic level, advising senior management
• Strong ability to build close relationships with local markets
• Excellent written & verbal communication skills
• Highly motivated team person with excellent solution orientation and social skills, service orientation and dedication
• Tenacious and persistent with high personal accountability
• Great abilities in building strong and trustful relationships with your colleagues and act as well as guidance and coordinator
• Cultural awareness and ability to work across different business units
• English fluency is mandatory

For further information and to apply>>

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