Thermo Fisher Scientific Hiring for Director, MarCom-Life Sciences Exp. Required at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Full Time

When you’re part of the team at Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll do meaningful work, that makes a positive impact on a global scale! Join 90,000 colleagues who bring our Mission to life every single day to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. You’ll find the resources here to achieve your career goals and help take science a step beyond by developing solutions for some of the world’s toughest challenges. This includes protecting the environment, making sure our food is safe, and helping find cures for cancer.

As part of the Thermo Fisher Scientific team, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Patheon pharma services is revolutionizing the way pharmaceuticals are made. Our team is passionate about making certain that our client’s molecules can become what they were meant to be—a discovery that can change patients’ lives for the better.

What impact will you make?

As the Director Marketing Communications, you will develop and implement the long-term marketing communication vision for the ThermoFisher Patheon CDMO brand. You will conduct market assessments, plan, develop, implement and revise external marketing communications programs. Your scope includes brand management, advertising, social and event marketing programs aligned with the overall global marketing strategy and budget. You will direct the efforts of the marketing communications staff and engage at strategic and tactical levels with the other functions of the global marketing team and collaborators to ensure cohesive communications strategies and tactics support growth objectives.

What will you do?

• Reflect, articulate, and promote the mission, vision and brand identity for Pharma Services (PSG) group; ensure all communications adhere to brand standards

• Responsible for creating, implementing and measuring the success of a communications strategy that will improve the PSG brand image, reputation and position within the marketplace

• Lead a team to develop brand, event, media and social strategies and tactical execution plans using a best-practices framework. Identify, attract, motivate, develop and retain outstanding talent.

• Lead the strategic and creative design of PSG marketing communications channels including advertising, website, social media, video production, live and virtual events, and client presentations.

• Stay current on marketing trends, strategy and tools

• Facilitate the management and maintenance of marketing communications resources, including digital capability tools and content management system

• Conduct relevant market research to measure brand reputation, monitors trends and adjusts the brand strategy as appropriate; use this market information to operate with initiative and innovation.

• Align divisional PSG strategy with corporate and cross-divisional Thermo Fisher Scientific marketing initiatives

• Accountable for forecasting, measuring, analyzing and reporting on the impact of all marketing communications dept programs. Ensure adherence to operating budget. Oversee process execution and optimization.

• Evaluate, select and manage vendors; lead multiple projects in a dynamic, high-accountability environment

• Coordinate media interest in PSG and ensures regular contact with target media, editorial boards, press and appropriate response to media requests in collaboration with Corporate Communications

• Collaborates with the digital marketing director to ensure on-deadline execution of marketing tactics

• Lead special projects as assigned, including special events, integration, rebranding efforts

How will you get there?

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing or other business-related field required. MBA preferred

Experience, knowledge, skills, abilities:

• Eight to ten years marketing experience, preferably in a contract drug manufacturing, contract research organization, pharmaceutical, healthcare or other technical field.

• Experience leading a distributed team and shared services function

• Experience translating business capabilities and technical information into clear, concise and compelling positioning and marketing collateral.

• Experience working in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and supporting multiple stakeholder groups simultaneously.

• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to balance multiple projects simultaneously to consistently meet goals and achieve budget.

• Strong communication and presentation skills.

• Excellent writing, positioning, messaging and collateral development skills.

• Strong analytical capabilities, including the ability to clearly define problems, collect relevant and credible data, establish facts, and draw value-based conclusions.

• Ability to inspire and cultivate innovation, and team effectiveness.

• Ability to problem solve, collaborate and influence across globally matrixed teams.

• Confidence and composure to advocate for advancement of marketing initiatives.

• Ability to travel as needed (up to 20%)

• Ability to drive functional, technical and operational excellence.

Benefits:

• We offer competitive remuneration, annual incentive plan bonus scheme, healthcare, company pension, and a range of employee benefits!

• Thermo Fisher Scientific offers employment with an innovative, forward-thinking organization, and outstanding career and development prospects. We offer an exciting company culture that stands for integrity, intensity, involvement, and innovation.

EEO/Reasonable Accommodation:

• Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

• We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request an accommodation.

Thermo Fisher Scientific is an EEO/Affirmative Action Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status.