Senior Director, Communications, Analytical Instruments Group (Aig)

Job Description

Thermo Fisher Scientific's Mission is to enable our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We are fulfilling this Mission every day by helping customers respond to global pandemics, find cures for cancer, deliver better healthcare outcomes, protect the environment, make sure our food and water are safe and develop other scientific breakthroughs that improve the lives of millions around the world.

Location/Division: Waltham, MA, Pittsburgh, PA, Hillsboro OR Corporate Communications and Public Relations Division

The Thermo Fisher Scientific Global Communications team thrives with close partnership, quality communications and a passion for excellence. We help all audiences, be it colleagues, customers or the public, feel pride in working at or doing business with our company. We bring our Mission to life by ensuring relevant and engaging communications reach the right audience at the right time, and we work as a cohesive team to achieve that goal.

How will you make an impact?

As Senior Director, Communications, you will build and guide the execution of a global integrated communications strategy supporting our Analytical Instruments business and manage a team of skilled communicators dedicated to bringing that strategy to life. You will also play a key role in ensuring the Analytical Instruments business is positioned as an industry leader with customers around the globe.

Reporting to the Vice President, Business Communications, you will be a trusted communications advisor to the business, serving as the communications representative on the business leadership team, working with leaders across the organization on business needs and opportunities. You are a skilled leader with a passion for developing others and will coach, guide and mentor your team, setting them up for success in their current and future roles. You will continue to build Thermo Fisher's leadership position by elevating our reputation and thought leadership opportunities across the business while engaging our colleagues in our Mission.

You will serve as a member of the Communications Extended Leadership Team while also leading efforts around M&A, change communications and issues based projects for the business. You will work closely within the communications leaders to mitigate risk, expand long range planning ideas and anticipate and address future needs.

What will you do?

We are looking for a passionate communications professional with a strong integrated communications background to reach diverse audiences. The individual in this role will work across a matrixed organization as well as the following key responsibilities:

• Help drive the overall reputation of Thermo Fisher by engaging with external partners and our colleagues internally through compelling narratives, storytelling and thought leadership platforms for the business and key executives.

• Partner with the business leadership to build continued awareness of the Analytical Instruments business and capabilities with customers, media, government officials, potential talent and local communities.

• Proactively lead communication projects and campaigns that align with, articulate and support the Analytical Instruments' key messages, business priorities and growth initiatives, as well as influence a positive culture and globally engaged workforce.

• Apply enhanced metrics and processes that help us measure communications impact and reinforce our culture of achievement and accountability.

• Drive innovative approaches to deliver communications in more creative, efficient, and effective ways by challenging current processes, technical capabilities and enhanced communications standards.

• Develop and drive the Analytical Instruments' online communities - integrating social, video and other media with the right balance of creativity and practicality.

• Serve as a role model and leader for others across the function while also engaging in professional communities and cultivating external relationships, staying abreast of industry trends and serving as a communications leader with vision within and outside the company.

How will you get here?

Education: Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing or English, preferred.

Experience

• Minimum 10+ years confirmed experience in integrated communications, with a blend of public relations, internal communications, social media, employee communications, government relations, change communications, issues management and marketing communications experience.

• Variety of relevant business experience which should demonstrate the ability to quickly study a business, understand the value-enablers, competitive landscape, and relate to bottom-line impact.

• Strong understanding of science and technology with a consistent track record to craft messages focused on high level customer benefit based on product and service solution features and benefits.

• Ability to influence business partners and facilitate partnership and alignment between business and communication objectives.

• Sound problem solving skills, e.g., ability to objectively analyze current practices, identify root cause problems and improvement opportunities, formulate a range of achievable options, outline relative strengths, build consensus for a preferred solution.

• Results focused e.g., financial and general business sense, focused on operational and process improvement to work efficiently.

• Executive presence and effective teamwork skills, e.g., open style, working in teams, strong written and oral communicator, strategic problem solver with ability to implement plans, calm under fire, go-to person.

• Strategic in a practical way, e.g., understand emerging communication trends and ability to extrapolate them to practical business applications.

• Experience in working in a heavily matrixed work environment.

• Focused, detailed and organized and able to balance multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.

• Strength in hiring, mentoring and developing teams.

• A curiosity about science or the life sciences is helpful and overall intellectual curiosity with a drive for continuous improvement.

• Collaborative teammate, working toward the greater good of the organization.

• Open to feedback, flexibility and situational adaptability.

• Ability to travel as needed.

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