Manager Communications - Writer / Editor

Job Description

Manager Communications - Writer / Editor 

The Opportunity

• Based in Hyderabad, join a global healthcare biopharma company and be part of a 130- year legacy of success backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
• Be part of an organisation driven by digital technology and data-backed approaches that support a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines, and animal health products.
• Drive innovation and execution excellence. Be a part of a team with passion for using data, analytics, and insights to drive decision-making, and which creates custom software, allowing us to tackle some of the world's greatest health threats.

Our Technology Centers focus on creating a space where teams can come together to deliver business solutions that save and improve lives. An integral part of our company’s IT operating model, Tech Centers are globally distributed locations where each IT division has employees to enable our digital transformation journey and drive business outcomes. These locations, in addition to the other sites, are essential to supporting our business and strategy.

A focused group of leaders in each Tech Center helps to ensure we can manage and improve each location, from investing in growth, success, and well-being of our people, to making sure colleagues from each IT division feel a sense of belonging to managing critical emergencies. And together, we must leverage the strength of our team to collaborate globally to optimize connections and share best practices across the Tech Centers.

Role Overview

Are you passionate about creating compelling content that resonates with diverse audiences? Join our company as an IT Communication Writer/Editor Manager and be at the forefront of our digital internal and external communication efforts. We're looking for a creative communicator with a storytelling approach to work with IT teams to develop impactful, engaging and visually appealing communications that adhere to our corporate brand guidelines. If you have a genuine passion for creating compelling content and storytelling, we want to hear from you!

Primary relationships

The position is part of the Global IT Strategic Communications and Organizational Change Management team and partners with IT communicators and change team members across our global network of IT Tech Centers.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with our Global IT Strategic Communications and Organizational Change Management team and IT stakeholders to write/edit impactful and engaging communications, leveraging digital to tell our “IT story,” the outcomes we’re delivering for the company, and how it connects to our enterprise and IT priorities.
  • Publish articles on appropriate company portal news channel (SharePoint).
  • Post content to relevant internal social media channels (e.g., Viva Engage).
  • Populate weekly email template with content based on editorial calendar and distribute it to the IT organization using Poppulo.
  • Design PowerPoint slides for presentations and digital signage.
  • Develop video scripts.

• Capture and analyze data and feedback to continuously improve and evolve communications and content.

• Adhere to our company branding guidelines and quality benchmarks across all deliverables.
• Guarantee consistency, accuracy, and error-free content in deliverables.

• Assist team members with creating content for use on our external social media channels (e.g., LinkedIn).

• Assist stakeholders and team members with creating visually impactful PowerPoint slides and SharePoint pages/sites.
• Support preparations and distribution of select IT newsletters / communications, as well as supporting data gathering for read / open rates and impact review
• Experiment with emerging technologies and ideas to develop and deliver creative content that enhances IT’s reputation as a leader in digital innovation

Qualifications

Hard skills

• Excellent proficiency in English for business communication.
• Excellent proficiency in writing and editing for internal communications.
• Ability to ‘translate’ technical jargon into user-friendly language for engaging readers.
• Demonstrated use of a storytelling approach for connecting with intended audience.
• Exceptional attention to detail in design elements, formatting, typography and corporate branding.
• Skilled in advanced functionalities of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint, and basic functionalities of Microsoft Excel.
• Knowledge of SharePoint and experience with creating web pages.
• Knowledge of Google Analytics, SharePoint metrics or other tools to track and measure success.
• Experience with using Poppulo to create/distribute emails is a plus.
• At least 2-3 years of demonstrated experience in a comparable position.

Soft skills

• Proactive self-starter with great attention to details and capable of working independently and in a team.
• Active in social media and excited by digital technologies.
• Strong leadership skills, including strategic planning, entrepreneurship, innovation and business acumen.
• Strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with the ability to influence and motivate others.
• Excellent emotional intelligence and decision-making skills, and a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
• Networking and partnership skills should be a key strength.

Who we are

We are known as Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA in the United States and Canada and MSD everywhere else. For more than a century, we have been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world's most challenging diseases. Today, our company continues to be at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions and advance the prevention and treatment of diseases that threaten people and animals around the world.

What we look for

Imagine getting up in the morning for a job as important as helping to save and improve lives around the world. Here, you have that opportunity. You can put your empathy, creativity, digital mastery, or scientific genius to work in collaboration with a diverse group of colleagues who pursue and bring hope to countless people who are battling some of the most challenging diseases of our time. Our team is constantly evolving, so if you are among the intellectually curious, join us—and start making your impact today.

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