Senior Director, External Communications

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💵 $246.8k - $339.4k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🗣️ Communications

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Solventum

10,000+ employees

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

Healthcare • Logistics • Consulting

Solventum is a healthcare-focused company renowned for its innovative solutions aimed at improving medical and oral care outcomes. The company offers a variety of medical technologies, including advanced wound care, surgical solutions, and sterilization products. Solventum also provides advanced oral care solutions, health information and technology services, and purification and filtration products for biopharmaceutical applications. Furthermore, Solventum places a strong emphasis on sustainability and education, providing resources and training for healthcare professionals globally. Their commitment to innovation and better healthcare has made them a leader in the healthcare industry, dedicated to enhancing patient safety and healthcare efficiencies.

📋 Description

• Set Solventum’s external communications strategy • Lead global external communications strategy across earned media, social media, and external influence • Develop Solventum’s corporate narrative and unified external voice • Partner with marketing, legal, HR, investor relations, leadership, and other internal stakeholders • Build relationships with journalists, media outlets, and relevant creators • Oversee press releases, media statements, and external-facing media materials • Create communications-led moments and campaigns around products, research, partnerships, data, and points of view • Manage media inquiries and mitigate reputational risk • Lead social media strategy, content, campaigns, community management, and social listening • Lead crisis communications and issues management • Advise senior leadership on sensitive situations affecting the company’s external image • Lead and mentor the external communications team • Manage external agency relationships • Shape external influence through conferences, speaking opportunities, awards, and industry relationships • Develop executive voices and thought leadership through speaking opportunities, media engagements, social content, opinion pieces, and events • Partner with investor relations on earnings, investor days, analyst meetings, and financial communications • Implement measurement systems, reporting, and KPIs for external communications • Leverage media monitoring, social listening, analytics, and other communications technologies

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in communications, public relations, journalism, business or a related field AND 12 years of experience in corporate communications; OR High School Diploma/GED AND 16 years of experience in corporate communications • 5 years of experience in a senior leadership role, ideally in PR, media relations, or corporate communications • Experience managing external communications strategies for a global organization • Expertise in crisis communications and complex public relations challenges • Experience building and leading a high-performing external communications team • Legally authorized to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship • Exceptional storytelling, writing and verbal communication skills • Experience with media relationships and generating sustained, high-impact earned coverage • Expertise in social media and modern communications channels • Experience overseeing external agencies • Leadership, cross-functional collaboration, and executive advising skills • Experience measuring communications impact and connecting work to business outcomes • Global mindset and ability to adapt strategies to different cultural contexts and regions

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental & Vision • Health Savings Accounts • Health Care & Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts • Disability Benefits • Life Insurance • Voluntary Benefits • Paid Absences • Retirement Benefits • Up to 30% domestic/international travel may be included

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