Corporate Communications Manager

Job Description

Roche fosters diversity, equity and inclusion, representing the communities we serve. When dealing with healthcare on a global scale, diversity is an essential ingredient to success. We believe that inclusion is key to understanding people’s varied healthcare needs. Together, we embrace individuality and share a passion for exceptional care. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

A healthier future. It’s what drives us to innovate. To continuously advance science and ensure everyone has access to the healthcare they need today and for generations to come. Creating a world where we all have more time with the people we love. That’s what makes us Roche.

The Corporate Communications Manager is instrumental in building and strengthening the Roche Diagnostics India (RDIN) brand and its role in preventive healthcare among media, customers, patient bodies, KOLs, and institutions. To do so, you will leverage traditional media relations, launch integrated campaigns, support the company’s advocacy efforts and enhance employee communication.

As a Corporate Communications Manager, you will partner closely with key commercial teams, form trusted relationships and drive communication strategies with a long-term view on business needs and patient-centric solutions. You collaborate with and learn from Roche’s global Communications community.

You understand the crucial role that Communications plays in translating key business priorities into high impact communication that is measurable. An important element is to reach key audiences through proactive, integrated, and impactful communication. You offer innovative communication ideas to bolster corporate reputation. 

Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Collaborate with Commercial teams to understand business priorities and study the existing business landscape to identify opportunities to drive impactful communications that build advocacy for RDIN

• Design communications activities to strengthen RDIN brand amid external stakeholders such as media, patient groups, customer, institutes and industry forums

• Identify story ideas and opportunities to strengthen thought leadership positioning both internally and externally

• Analysis and reporting on all campaigns and communication activities, providing results and actionable recommendations to stakeholders

Who you are

Your expertise ensures the ability to manage projects independently while always seeking to maximize stakeholder delight through proactive and customized communication solutions.

You understand new age and social media and engage with it regularly; follow industry trends and use them as needed to strengthen brand narrative and campaigns.

You have:

• Degree in Business, communication or marketing or related field

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to write clear, concise and compelling copy for different mediums (digital, marcom, thought leadership, award nominations)

• managed end-to-end execution of large campaigns involving multiple stakeholders (internal, vendors, agencies, media, etc) independently

• Demonstrated experience working closely with Product teams for marcom activities and are comfortable working with senior leaders and are able to influence action to build support for integrated projects.

• Possess prior experience in a PR agency or Communications role in a corporate communications team. Healthcare background is preferred but not mandatory

• Ability to use technology and data to measure the impact of communication activities and generate insights to aid subsequent decision making.

As Corporate Communications Manager for Roche Diagnostics India & NM, you are expected to demonstrate and bring to life the following dimensions and help evolve the function’s culture beliefs as part of the India journey.

• are passionate about our customers and patients

• radically simplify

• trust, collaborate & have fun

• ALL lead

• experiment and learn

This role is only open to candidates that have full eligibility to live and work in India .

We do not accept any unsolicited resumes or enquiries from recruitment agencies. Roche has a dedicated in-house Talent Acquisition team.

At Roche, more than 100,000 people across 100 countries are pushing back the frontiers of healthcare. Working together, we’ve become one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups. Our success is built on innovation, curiosity and diversity.

For more than 60 years, Roche has been committed to making a difference to the lives of people in India. Roche Diagnostics India is the market leader in In-Vitro-Diagnostics, providing diagnostic testing for early detection, evaluation and monitoring of disease. On the product side, the organisation provides a wide range of diagnostic products for customers around distinct disease areas namely diabetes, virology, blood screening, women's health, microbiology, oncology and genomics.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.