Communication Lead

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.

The Position

The Communication Lead is responsible for owning the design and execution of a strategic, insight-driven communications plan that supports our company vision at the local level, leveraging resources, experience and expertise from the extended Roche network. She/he is also responsible for providing support and counsel to senior management, strengthening our reputation and handling crisis communications, when necessary. In addition, this person will help:

• Cultivate and protect our corporate reputation through advocacy, stakeholder engagement and media relations
• Raise awareness and visibility of Roche presence and impact in the Malaysia community and industry
• Engage and inspire our people towards a shared vision while building a culture of accountability, collaboration, diversity, inclusion and trust
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Foster our reputation as a trusted partner: Build and deliver an integrated communications strategy to foster Roche Malaysia’s visibility, presence and voice as a trusted partner among stakeholders. Influence the public agenda to drive strategic conversations and business-critical priorities
• Support Roche’s positioning and external affairs efforts: Build a policy narrative, draft speeches and develop a thought leadership plan to ensure we have a seat at the table and an effective voice in the external environment.
• Act from a whole system perspective: Demonstrate an enterprise mindset and understand the big picture of how the organization’s strategy addresses the healthcare needs of the Malaysia market
• Provide strategic, proactive activation of business-critical topics
• Help connect and mobilise our people behind our vision and strategy: develop an internal communications strategy to foster a strong working environment and enabling our people to realise their potential and contribute meaningfully for our customers and patients
• Build internal capability within our local teams: so that employees are able to adopt communication frameworks and ensure effective and timely communication
  
  
  

Who You Are

• Communications experience in positions of responsibility in major corporations. Experience in the healthcare industry is desired
• Understands the basic concept of market dynamics and business planning
• Ability to lead a number of programs/projects simultaneously, and to be hands-on as well as strategic
• Outstanding oral/written language skills in the local business language as well as English
• Outstanding judgment with a balance of confidence, maturity, refinement and high energy
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to interact with senior leaders and matrixed functions and departments
  
  

Who we are

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.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.