**Summary**:
Manage and execute Communication and Patient Advocacy plan, activities and relations to an specific Therapeutical Area. Ensure daily operations run effectively and efficiently, identify and resolve upcoming issues, improve processes, ensure quality deliverables.
**About the Role**:
**#LI-Hybrid**
**Location**:São Paulo, Brazil
**Major accountabilities**:
- Work collaboratively cross-divisional and /or cross-functionally to bring patient and communication insights to develop the strategy
- Develop and implement a comprehensive Patient Advocacy & Communications strategy, ensuring that the company establishes strong relationships with Patient Organizations and media outlets, including Social Media.
- Be a interface with Therapeutical Area team
- Create and bring forward innovative approaches to partnering with patient groups /forums, including engagement, in areas of strategic alignment
- Establish strategic and ongoing relationships with internal and external stakeholders, leading to business-aligned, long-term collaborations that are valued by and valuable for key audiences, and most importantly, patients.
- Develop strategic measures that enable us to include the patient perspective in our work
**Minimum Requirements**:
**Work Experience**:
- Complete graduation related to Healthcare and/or Communications
- Strong Patient Advocacy experience
- Communications experience
- Healthcare industry/Pharma experience is an advantage
- Understanding of product life-cycle, specially in Oncology
- Project Management.
**Languages**:
- Advanced Portuguese
- Advanced English
**You'll receive**:**Competitive salary, annual bonus, life insurance, home office policy (home office 2x a week), retirement and wellbeing plans, flexible working arrangements, birthday day-off, parental leave, subsidized dining facilities, health insurance, employee recognition platform, Gympass, employee resource groups and virtual self-development tools.
**Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion**: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams' representative of the patients and communities we serve.
Division
Corporate Affairs
Business Unit
CTS
Location
Brazil
Site
Santo Amaro
Company / Legal Entity
BR03 (FCRS = BR003) NOVARTIS BIOCIENCIAS S.A
Functional Area
Communications & Public Affairs
Job Type
Full time
Employment Type
Regular
Shift Work
No