Anz Communications Lead

Join one of the world's leading biopharmaceutical companies with a presence in Asia Pacific for over 60 years.

• Great opportunity to work with a best-in-class team of seasoned professionals in a vibrant, fast-moving, and agile environment.
• Your chance to learn and gain exposure while driving impactful internal and external communications for the ANZ business.

Our Policy & Communications team collaborates with governments and policy organizations at local and national levels. We address legislative and regulatory issues that promote and protect the discovery of innovative medicine, vaccines, and animal health products while improving and protecting patient access to care. We take great care to monitor and manage our company's reputation, communicating the work we do to improve lives.

As the ANZ Communications Lead, you will lead the company's ANZ communications team and drive the internal and external reputation with key stakeholders.

You will work across Australia & New Zealand with a team of high-performing individuals to build the company's corporate reputation, communicate key initiatives being undertaken across ANZ, and engage employees through internal communication and engagement activities. You will demonstrate proficiency in leveraging various channels to execute communications objectives, including media, social media, and select digital platforms.

To succeed in this role, you should have a strong track record in leading a communications team and designing and implementing a cohesive communications strategy to advance the company's reputation and objectives. You will have a natural tact for storytelling and a proven ability to translate complex information into content that resonates with diverse internal and external audiences.

A key enabler of success in this role will be the ability to build a more robust network of relationships with external stakeholders and develop key relationships across the business to identify and execute communications initiatives.

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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