Communication Manager

About Abb Vie

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

Abb Vie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about Abb Vie, please visit us at  Follow @abbvie on Linked In, Facebook, Instagram, X and You Tube.

This role develops and delivers high-quality communications activity that strengthens Abb Vie UK’s reputation, supports therapy area and enterprise priorities, and helps employees and external stakeholders understand Abb Vie’s contribution to patients, the health system and the economy.

The role requires a strong communications practitioner who can plan and execute across external communications, corporate channels, digital content and internal communications, working with External Affairs, commercial, medical affairs, market access, HR and agency partners to deliver integrated, insight-led communications with clear objectives, robust measurement and appropriate governance.

Develop communications plans for agreed therapy area, enterprise and corporate priorities, with clear objectives, audiences, messages, channels, dependencies and measures of success. Identify proactive storytelling opportunities that support Abb Vie UK’s reputation and therapy area priorities, within appropriate governance and industry requirements.

Deliver communications activity across internal and external channels, coordinating inputs from internal stakeholders, agency partners and review processes. Support issues preparedness and reactive communications by drafting materials, coordinating alignment and escalating risks early.

• Write, edit and manage high-quality content for media materials, corporate website content, social media, intranet articles, leadership communications, employee updates and campaign assets.
• Support Abb Vie UK digital and social media activity, including content development, channel planning, localisation of global materials and performance reporting.

Set practical KPIs and use data, channel analytics and stakeholder feedback to assess impact and recommend improvements. Maintain awareness of healthcare, pharmaceutical, policy, media and digital trends, using this insight to inform communications planning.

Provide practical communications counsel to internal stakeholders, helping teams communicate with clarity, consistency and sound judgement. Work with External Affairs, commercial, medical affairs, market access, HR, legal, compliance and other functions to support integrated communications delivery.

Partner with agency teams and vendors to deliver agreed outputs efficiently, on brief, within budget and to Abb Vie quality standards. Ensure communications activity follows Abb Vie processes for review, approval,…