R&D Communication Specialist

At Elanco (NYSE: ELAN) – it all starts with animals!

As a global leader in animal health, we are dedicated to innovation and delivering products and services to prevent and treat disease in farm animals and pets.

We’re driven by our vision of ‘Food and Companionship Enriching Life’ and our approach to sustainability – the Elanco Healthy Purpose™ – to advance the health of animals, people, the planet and our enterprise.

At Elanco, we pride ourselves on fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment.

We believe that diversity is the driving force behind innovation, creativity, and overall business success.

Here, you’ll be part of a company that values and champions new ways of thinking, work with dynamic individuals, and acquire new skills and experiences that will propel your career to new heights.

Making animals’ lives better makes life better – join our team today!

Job Description:

• Helps create best-in-class internal communications function across the R&D organization that fuels employee engagement, influences connectivity and culture, positively impacting all functions.
• Develops communication materials using a variety of tactics (written communications, presentation materials, MS-Teams and other platforms, town halls, small group meetings, etc.) to articulate key messages.
• Ensures communication messaging and materials are high quality, accurate, appropriate and integrated with Elanco’s priorities and themes.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including executives, internal teams, external partners, and global communications team.
• Assists senior leaders in writing and editing impactful and engaging content that effectively describes and promotes employee engagement and supports other programs and initiatives at Elanco.
• Analyze and interpret data related to employee communication and engagement (such as VOE) to inform decision-making.
• Build dashboards for R&D initiatives such as portfolio or enterprise level information rollouts to the organization.
• Leads through shared learning, process improvement, and identification of special/complex continuous improvement projects.
• Works with appropriate firm personnel to create and maintain content for employee communication channels, and partners with the broader marketing and IT teams to explores/recommends new channels or technologies where possible.
• Manages content for the global company intranet, ensuring that it is up-to-date, engaging, and informative.

• Manage communication budgets and implement metrics reports to measure effectiveness of internal communication channels and measures internal communications with the goal of continuously improving internal communications strategy to reach and engage employees.

Requirements (Education to be included):
• Minimum 8 years of internal communications experience in pharma/medical device/life sciences domain.
• A strong collaborator with solid Engli...