Senior Manager, Financial & Corporate Communications

Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world.

It starts with YOU.

We are seeking an experienced and highly motivated Senior Communications Manager to join our Global Communications & Corporate Affairs team, with a specialized focus on business and financial communications and partnership with Investor Relations. This mid-senior level role is integral to shaping and executing high-impact external communications that articulate our business strategy and financial narrative, enhance corporate reputation, and engage critical stakeholders including investors and financial analysts, the media, and other key external stakeholders / partners.

The ideal candidate brings a strong blend of strategic thinking and executional excellence, with a proven track record in financial communications, corporate storytelling, media relations, and reputation and issues management experience. This role operates in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and requires the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and deliver consistent, high-quality communications aligned with the company’s business strategy and objectives.

• Lead the development of quarterly earnings communications, including executive scripts, Q&A documents, and earnings press releases, in close partnership with Investor Relations.
• Partner on the creation of compelling investor-facing materials, including presentations for earnings calls, press releases, and investor conferences.
• Drive external messaging around financial results, company performance, and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment across channels.
• Support media relations efforts tied to quarterly earnings calls, including the preparation of briefing materials for executives (e.g., VP of IR; CFO; etc.) and potentially staffing interviews with top-tier business / financial media.
• Serve as a key communications advisor and project management partner to Investor Relations team, including partnering on and holding colleagues accountable to workback / project plans and timelines if / as needed.

• Support and contribute to proactive, enterprise-wide strategic communications strategy and message development and execution.
• Partner on crisis / issues preparedness communications planning, execution, and response; work closely with cross-functional partners including Legal, Human Resources, brand teams, and senior leadership to ensure readiness and alignment.
• Support the development of thoughtful, audience-centric messaging for a variety of sensitive or high-impact issues / scenarios on a reactive and proactive basis, both internally and externally.
• Monitor emerging reputational risks and help shape proactive communication strategies that support business continuity and stakeholder trust.
• Operate with the utmost integrity and handle sensitive matters with professionalism and care—care for our consumers, customers, partners, and employees.

• Develop and support targeted and proactive media strategies for key enterprise announcements and milestones, including drafting press releases, key messages, executive Q&As, and briefing materials.
• Foster and maintain relationships with top-tier business and financial media outlets; support executive media engagements and thought leadership efforts.
• Monitor media trends and coverage, and synthesize insights to inform communications strategy and executive positioning.
• Contribute to strategic communications initiatives from concept through execution with clear milestones and outcomes. These may include media relations strategy / support connected to an executive’s speaking engagement,…