Associate Director, Public Affairs France

Summary

Under the hierarchical supervision of France General Manager and the functional supervision of the Senior Director, Public Affairs, Region Europe, the position has as main objective to:

- Define and implement the company's strategy in the field of public affairs.
- Maintain relations with institutional, national and European players in order to best represent the company's interests on the public stage.
- Promote the company's image within its environment.
- Define the global communication strategy and manage its implementation on a national or international scale.
- Work with patient organisations accordingly to their evolving position in the healthcare decision-making space. Ensure the monitoring of the health sector and take into account the patient dimension in its entirety.
- Contribute positively to a strong culture of business integrity and ethics by acting within local, regional and global compliance and legal requirements and company policies.

**Responsibilities**:
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
- Collaborate with internal teams
- Development of cross-functionality and a service-oriented work culture
- Define and implement company’s strategy
- Contribution of a strategic reflection in the respect of the ethical framework
- Development of related action plans, management and coordination of their implementation
- Definition and monitoring of specific associated budgets
- Lead projects in area of expertise
- Definition of projects and actions to be carried out within scope and arbitrating priorities according to the evolution of the environment and current events
- Monitoring of projects by sharing meaning, challenges and results with all participants
- Responsibility for the cost, time, quality, traceability and compliance of projects at each stage
- Coordination of institutional projects in conjunction with other departments
- Participation in projects on behalf of other departments by providing business expertise and by following the project manager's format and schedule, respecting deadlines and ensuring the quality of intermediate and/or final deliverables
- Represent the company in various bodies
- Development of a broad vision of the scope of intervention at the national or even international level
- Development of a mapping of the institutional actors to be met having an impact on the institutional environment
- Development and coordination of influence actions in the field of public affairs
- Establishment and negotiation of partnerships with national and European institutions
- Impulse, supervision or animation of commissions, round tables or working groups internally or externally in the field of public affairs France/Europe
- Establishment of efficient collaboration with stakeholders in the sector in order to relay the key messages of the institutional policy carried by the company
- Inform and support top management
- Analysis and anticipation of national and international regulatory developments in the sector
- Coordination and drafting of legislative texts and monitoring legislative regulations and case law
- Provision of information, advice to management in defining their institutional policy
- Guarantee and monitoring of the quality of the information provided in terms of expertise and services rendered
- Contribute to the cohesion of internal teams
- Facilitation of inter-departmental communication and professional relations
- Development of mutual aid within the team and with collaborators and other departments

COMMUNICATION
- Definition of the company's global communication strategy
- Advisory role to top management on the evolution of the brand identity and positioning internally and externally
- Support for changes in the company in terms of internal and external communication, particularly during crisis management
- Collection of strategic information related to the development of the company from top management (governance, business project, managerial project, etc.)
- Identification and valuation of the work carried out within the company's functional departments (sales, marketing, human resources, IT, etc.)
- Setting strategic directions of the company's communication in terms of image, visibility, message and defining the annual communication plan
- Definition of the company's media, editorial and visual strategy (segmentation of message targets, choice of information channels and editorial, etc.)
- Planning and development of annual budget of the communication department
- Coordination of communication campaigns
- Advice and support to top management in the context of strategic re?ection and specific actions (crisis communication, etc.)
- Approval of the variations of the communication plan in various aspects: internal, external communication (public relations, press, etc.), corporate, web, etc.
- Monitoring the consistency of the company's image on all forms of communication, print and web media or events
- Search for means, networks or actions to ensure the visibility of t