Associate Director, Health Advocacy

Role Overview

• Support the execution of the global patient advocacy strategy, road map, and key initiatives.
• Manage operational implementation of advocacy programs, including roundtables, convenings, publications and other strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate across functions to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Support development of annual advocacy plans, objectives, timelines and deliverables.
• Track and monitor advocacy initiatives to ensure timely and effective execution.
• Serve as an operational point of contact for advocacy organizations supporting relationship development and ongoing engagement.
• Help maintain regular communication with advocacy partners to support collaboration and shared initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to support advocacy organizations through strategic engagement, capability building and bidirectional collaboration.
• Support identification, onboarding, and management of new advocacy partnerships.
• Help support the programs and tactics behind the enterprise-wide advocacy capability.
• Support development of internal processes, tools and frameworks for advocacy engagement.
• Coordinate internal advocacy community of practice and support cross functional working groups.
• Ensure internal teams have access to patient insights and advocacy perspectives.
• Support integration of patient voice into R&D, Medical Affairs, Policy, and Commercial initiatives.
• Support development of advocacy-related materials including white papers, position papers, briefing documents, and presentations.
• Contribute to development of advocacy communications and storytelling that elevate patient voice.
• Support management of advocacy budgets, contracts and operational processes.
• Support preparation of internal reports dashboards and leadership updates.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Advanced degree such as MPH, MPP, MBA or related field preferred
• Five years of experience in patient advocacy, health care, public health, nonprofit leadership or related health care field
• Experience specifically in Women’s Health is strongly preferred
• Patient-centered mindset.
• Execution and project management: strong organizational and project management skills, ability to manage multiple initiatives, detail oriented with strong operational discipline.
• Relationship management: ability to build trust with advocacy partners and internal stakeholders.
• Communication: excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to help prepare executive level materials, when needed.
• Collaboration and influence: ability to work cross functionally across diverse teams, ability to operate in complex organizational environments.

Benefits

• retirement savings plan
• paid vacation and holiday time
• paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
• health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage