• Support the development and implementation of the affiliate’s communications and external partnership strategy mainly for prioritized therapeutic areas and some enterprise initiatives.
• Build and maintain long term, substantive relationships with Japanese and international media and other key stakeholders based on values of trust, respect and transparency.
• Share disease state education best practices to improve how educational initiatives are designed and executed in markets outside Japan.
• Heighten disease state and therapeutic-area knowledge among external groups.
• Support patient access to treatments by working with advocacy relations team and professional associations to address access barriers.
• Bring the voice of patients into the company's capabilities, including Clinical Trial Design, Corporate Affairs, Policy, and Value and Access.
• Work cross-functionally as a strong partner and collaborator with local, regional and global corporate affairs and advocacy relations teams.