Associate Director, Key Markets Communications, Specialty Care

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* Job Title:

** Associate Director, Key Markets Communications, Specialty Care
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* Location:

** Cambridge, MA
** About the Job
** Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.

The Global Specialty Care Communications team plays a key role in driving the success of Sanofi, strengthening and preserving our reputation in the complex fields of rare diseases, neurology, oncology, and immunology and engaging employees and external communities on the value of our portfolio and pipeline. We are impact-focused, action-driven, and we never settle for good enough.  The Associate Director, Key Markets Communications, Specialty care is responsible for streamlining and coordinating communications initiatives across Global Specialty Care's priority markets, with a strong focus on building integrated country/global ways of working and capabilities to support priority launches while ensuring all communications efforts are measurable and deliver meaningful impact.

This role provides strategic executive communications support to the Head of Markets, Specialty Care, building their reputation and visibility as an industry leader.

This role requires engaging with senior leaders, corporate communications, country communications and global product communications to achieve high impact communications execution. This role requires a breadth of communication experience, and proven success in working in a fast-paced environment and managing and influencing stakeholders without authority.

The Associate Director, Key Markets Communications partners closely with SPC Global Communications Head to organize and deliver key markets communications and engagement activities such as quarterly calls, annual summits, and ongoing digital touchpoints.

Supporting the Head of Key Markets requires participating in, providing strategic communications counsel, creating assets and content for town halls, leadership events, presentations, external speaking engagements, and complex multi-stakeholder communications.

Candidates must demonstrate the ability to own and drive initiatives within a complex, global organization. This person must be highly organized, detail- and solution-oriented, creative, digitally savvy, and possess a collaborative mindset with strong cultural intelligence.

This individual will report to the Head of Executive, Digital, Internal Communications.
** About Sanofi:
** We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system – and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.
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* Main Responsibilities:

**** Executive Communications
*** Provides strategic communications counsel to the Head of Key Markets on internal and external communications opportunities and challenges
* Develops high-quality content including speeches, presentations, town halls, Q&As, leadership messages, and thought leadership pieces
* Manages the communications rhythm for the Head of Key Markets across multiple channels (Linked In, Viva Engage, all-hands meetings, country visits, leadership forums)
* Anticipates communications needs and proactively develops content and strategies to support the Head of Key Markets' engagement with internal and external stakeholders
* Collaborates with corporate communications and business operations to ensure messaging consistency and strategic alignment
** Cross-Functional Collaboration
*** Partners with communications colleagues across Specialty Care franchises, regions, and corporate affairs to drive best practices in ways of working
* Establishes and maintains a consistent rhythm of business communications, ensuring stakeholders are informed and engaged
* Coordinates cross-functional communications initiatives across priority markets, ensuring consistency while respecting…