Director or Senior Director, Health Equity

**Director or Senior Director, Health Equity Communications**

**Barcelona**

**Competitive salary and benefits**

**At AstraZeneca we turn ideas into life changing medicines. We are dedicated to transforming the future of healthcare by unlocking the power of what science can do for people, society and the planet. **Working here means being entrepreneurial, thinking big and working together to make the seemingly impossible a reality.**:
As Director/Senior Director, Health Equity (HE) Communications, you will play a pivotal role in telling our strong Health Equity story internally and externally, driving action, building awareness and advancing our leading reputation as a company. As part of our Sustainability CA and Global Partnerships team, and working closely with the Health Equity team and across multiple different functions, this role is critical to engage employees and stakeholders and bring to life how our company is contributing to better, more equitable health outcomes for societies across the globe. This role requires a self-starter who is experienced in and engergised by developing strategies, as well as executing high-quality communications and campaigns through hands-on delivery.

An initial priority will be to use your strong employee engagement and change management capabilities to build internal understanding of the company’s new HE approach and future direction, and how this fits within our overall sustainability strategy. In addition, you will be accountable for:

- ** Leading HE communications**, developing and delivering a strategic and integrated HE communications and engagement strategy that showcases the progress we are making internally and externally on this critical agenda. You will build stakeholder awareness and understanding of the HE opportunity in our key areas of focus (e.g. lung health, cardio-renal, rare), enhancing our reputation, and ultimately securing of more resources (public, private, academic, philatropic) to advance broader, more equitable health outcomes, with a particular focus on early detection and optimal treatment. Moreover, you will identify and tell human stories and develop compelling and creative campaigns to demonstrate how AstraZeneca is impacting different determinants of health, improving people’s lives across the globe. Partnering with colleagues in Sustainability CA & Global Partnerships, you will communicate via an array of internal and external channels and speaker events & platforms (eg. WEF, World Health Assembly, UNGA).
You will partrner with communications leads in the Therapeutic Areas as well as regions and identified markets to deliver an integrated HE communications strategy across different levels of the organisation, ensuring alignment in approach and messaging as well as spotlighting local nuances, challenges and opportunities. Experience in communicating with Board and senior leadership, working internationally and across a global, matrix organisation will be critical.
- **Leading communications for our Partnership for Heath System Sustainability and Resilience** (PHSSR), as well as developing and delivering a compelling narrative and strategy that supports our wider value and payment policy activities. In doing so, you will work with new and existing external private and public sector partners to align activities, communicate progress and amplify milestones, driving understanding of the need to build more resilient and sustainable health systems for the future. Key deliverables include developing press releases & articles, social media materials, communications toolkits and identification and support of opportunities at high profile events and platforms. Critical in this role will be ensuring communication around PHSSR is integrated into AstraZeneca’s sustainbility agenda through key ESG touchpoints.

In this role, you will be part of AstraZeneca’s ‘Sustainability CA and Global Partnerships’ organization of Global Corporate Affairs, and you will primarily partner with the Global Policy, Advocacy and Health Equity team. You will also **represent Health Equity on the Corporate Communications Taskforce**, ensuring AstraZeneca’s global network of communicators are aligned on the company’s approach to HE comms externally and internally, aware of activities, and given opportunity to input on strategies and approaches, engaging and leveraging the group to maximise opportunities and support our broader corporate agenda.

**INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL CUSTOMERS / CLIENTS**

**Internal **- some examples of internal contacts/customers are**:
Global Corporate Affairs including Global Policy, Advocacy and Health Equity

Sustainability

Oncology and Biopharmaceuticals Business Unit leadership and functions in global, region and country levels, with a focus on lung cancer, COPD and asthma teams

Regional and in-market teams

**External **- some examples of external contacts/customers are**:
Public health, population health and environmental