Associate Director, External Communications

At Genmab we are dedicated to building extranotordinary futures together by developing antibody products and groundbreaking knock-your-socks-off KYSO antibody medicines that change lives and the future of cancer treatment and serious diseases. We strive to create champion and maintain a global workplace where individuals unique contributions are valued and drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our patients care partners families and employees.

Our people are compassionate candid and purposeful and our business is innovative and rooted in science. We believe that being proudly authentic and determined to be our best is essential to fulfilling our purpose. Yes our work is incredibly serious and impactful but we have big ambitions bring a ton of care to pursuing them and have a lot of fun while doing so.

Does this inspire you and feel like a fit Then we would love to have you join us!

The Role

We are looking for an Associate Director Communications & Corporate Affairs to strengthen our global R&D and portfolio communications capabilities and our overall Communications & Corporate Affairs (C&CA) team as Genmab continues its rapid growth and transformation. The Associate Director will be charged with supporting the development and drive the execution of Genmabs strategic communications efforts for our Research Development and Technical Operations (RDT) organization. The role will execute communications plans to announce global data and regulatory milestones for the investigational and on-market medicines in our proprietary portfolio liaising and guiding country communicators. This role will require strong collaboration with our co-development and co-commercialization partners and cross-functional teams to build communications strategy messaging and positioning and tactics. The role acts as a global communications business partner and strategic counselor on global internal external and digital communications and corporate affairs matters. This role is based in the Genmab Princeton NJ offices reports to the Senior Director RDT and Portfolio Communications and requires strong science and marketing communications expertise in the life sciences industry and excellent skills in crafting communications materials to key target audiences.

The key objectives of the role are to:

• Support Genmab with the development of focused global strategic communications programs for its proprietary portfolio of investigational and on-market medicines with a focus on promising early-stage bispecific and ADC antibody therapies in its pipeline increasing the understanding and value behind Genmabs innovative next-generation therapies.
• Develop and execute product communications plans to support brand strategy clinical development programs regulatory milestones and pre-launch activities.
• Act as strategic communications advisor and point of contact with co-development and co-commercialization partner and global cross-functional internal brand and clinical development teams.
• Support development and execution of RDT communications activities and projects aimed at telling the Genmab RDT story and enhancing the reputation of Genmab.
• Partner with global Communications & Corporate Affairs colleagues to find synergies and efficiencies to contribute to and enhance our global content strategy across the enterprise; collaborate with investor relations to support communications around quarterly earnings and other investor/analyst events including continuous updates to content such as the Pipeline and Technology Platform sections among others.
• A strong digital mindset and cross-functional collaboration is required to achieve success. This position will need to be able to collaborate with company partners and cross-functional colleagues to drive communications strategy and implement day-to-day initiatives.
• Shape and further build the Genmab story by bringing to life the scientific innovation and medical value of our innovative medicines through clear messaging that supports the brands objectives; raise awareness of the medical need; support internal engagement/pull through.

Responsibilities

• Execute strategic global communications for Genmabs portfolio of investigational bispecific antibody medicines and on-market medicines.
• Collaborate with the Development Medical Commercial and Alliance Management teams to plan and execute comprehensive communications activities announcing data presentations/publications clinical trial outcomes regulatory pre- and filings and pre-approval milestones.
• Support RDT communications activities and projects.
• Manage PR agency partners sometimes in collaboration with co-commercialization partners.
• Align with Communications & Corporate Affairs colleagues on media strategy efforts and serve as member of cross-functional teams on different projects related to the communications and special projects such as non-branded disease-awareness efforts.
• Work collaboratively with Social Media team to plan and executive strategic and comprehensive social media communications supporting various announcements.
• Develop metrics and KPIs to measure program success. Work with Senior Director to showcase results internally as appropriate.
• Position includes approximately 15-20% national and international travel.

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years of experience in communications science writing and content creation; experience in business writing or writing for corporate audiences a must.
• Prolific communicator with excellent story-telling skills ability to communicate complex science to broad audiences using traditional and digital assets with keen understanding how to create content and tell stories for various channels.
• Corporate Communications and/or agency experience in the healthcare field oncology; experience in the life science industry preferred
• Knowledge of key media outlets and journalists; branding experience a plus.
• Exceptional relationship management skills project and time management skills and exceptional eye for detail organization and version control with ability to lead and manage multiple projects from conception to completion execute projects to set goals and gather metrics to measure success.
• Ability to offer strong and strategic communications counsel and work with people at all levels of an organization to complete projects and thrive in a challenging demanding and rapidly changing environment with a can-do spirit and flexibility.
• Strong experience of digital communications and social media best practices experience with emerging AI tools and ability to apply to daily tasks corporate branding experience a plus .
• Bachelors Degree required.

Moreover you meet the following personal requirements:

• Team player ability to create a strong network across the company and across functions as well as with external stakeholders and executive Management.
• Flexible and able to cope with and adapt to changing priorities and willing to travel.
• Comfortable in a dynamic environment in which priorities and drivers can quickly change.

For US based candidates the proposed salary band for this position is as follows:

The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors including your skills qualifications experience and location. Also certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation such as discretionary bonuses and long-term incentives.

When you join Genmab youre joining a culture that supports your physical financial social and emotional wellness. Within the first year regular full-time U.S. employees are eligible for:

• 401(k) Plan: 100% match on the first 6% of contributions

• Health Benefits: Two medical plan options (including HDHP with HSA) dental and vision insurance

• Voluntary Plans: Critical illness accident and hospital indemnity insurance

• Time Off: Paid vacation sick leave holidays and 12 weeks of discretionary paid parental leave

• Support Resources: Access to child and adult backup care family support programs financial wellness tools and emotional well-being support

• Additional Perks: Commuter benefits tuition reimbursement and a Lifestyle Spending Account for wellness and personal expenses

About You

• You are genuinely passionate about our purpose

• You bring precision and excellence to all that you do

• You believe in our rooted-in-science approach to problem-solving

• You are a generous collaborator who can work in teams with a broad spectrum of backgrounds

• You take pride in enabling the best work of others on the team

• You can grapple with the unknown and be innovative

• You have experience working in a fast-growing dynamic company (or a strong desire to)

• You work hard and are not afraid to have a little fun while you do so!

Locations

Genmab maximizes the efficiency of an agile working environment when possible for the betterment of employee work-life balance. Our offices are crafted as open community-based spaces that work to connect employees while being immersed in our powerful laboratories. Whether youre in one of our office spaces or working remotely we thrive on connecting with each other to innovate.

About Genmab

Genmab is an international biotechnology company with a core purpose to improve the lives of patients through innovative and differentiated antibody therapeutics. For 25 years its hard-working innovative and collaborative team has invented next-generation antibody technology platforms and harnessed translational quantitative and data sciences resulting in a proprietary pipeline including bispecific T-cell engagers antibody-drug conjugates next-generation immune checkpoint modulators and effector function-enhanced antibodies. By 2030 Genmabs vision is to transform the lives of people with cancer and other serious diseases with Knock-Your-Socks-Off (KYSO) antibody medicines.

Established in 1999 Genmab is headquartered in Copenhagen Denmark with international presence across North America Europe and Asia Pacific. For more information please visit and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

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