Corporate Communications, Brand and Narrative Management (New Consumer Health Company)

Johnson & Johnson is currently recruiting for a Corporate Communications, Brand and Narrative Management (New Consumer Health Company). This position may be located in Skillman, New Jersey; High Wycombe, England; Zug, Switzerland; Dijon, France; or Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Caring for the world, one person at a time has inspired and united the people of Johnson & Johnson for over 125 years. We embrace research and science — bringing innovative ideas, products, and services to advance the health and well-being of people.  

With $82.1 billion in 2020 sales, Johnson & Johnson is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products, as well as a provider of related services, for the consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices markets. Employees of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies work with partners in health care to touch the lives of over a billion people every day, throughout the world.  

If you have the talent and desire to touch the world, Johnson & Johnson has the career opportunities to help make it happen. Thriving on a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our employees, and committed to inclusion. Proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Johnson & Johnson is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly-based healthcare Company, touching the lives of nearly a billion people every day. Our Family of Companies throughout the world compete in consumer, pharmaceutical, and medical devices & diagnostics markets and have the skills and resources to tackle the world’s most pressing health issues.  

Johnson & Johnson announced plans to separate our Consumer Health business to create a new publicly traded company. The process of the planned separation is anticipated to be completed within 24 months, and it will be subject to legal requirements including consultation with works councils and other employee representative bodies, as required, and other customary conditions and approvals.    

It is anticipated that, following the conclusion of the transaction, this position may be conveyed with New Consumer Health. In that case, details of any planned changes would be provided to the successful candidate by New Consumer Health at an appropriate time and would be subject to any necessary consultation processes.  

Job Description

The Corporate Brand & Narrative Manager is responsible for guiding strategy and creative executions for the NCHC corporate brand, narrative, and reputation. The position works collaboratively across multiple business and corporate functions, reflecting the emerging corporate brand identity in strategy and creative executions. This position requires strong leadership and collaborative skills, with a demonstrated ability to lead in an emerging environment.

Key Responsibilities
Strategize, build, and implement a new NCHC corporate brand, working collaboratively with senior leaders, outside agencies, brands, and business units.
Manage the development and deployment of NCHC’s foundational messaging, inclusive of NCHC’s corporate narrative, thought leadership pillars and brand storytelling agenda, in close coordination with the Strategy & Executive Communications Leader to clearly reflect overarching strategy.
Complete brand architecture research determining appropriate utilization of the corporate brand across business units, and appropriately deploy guidelines working collaboratively across the enterprise.
Develop connections planning, creative guidelines, and best-in-class executions to visibly demonstrate emerging elements of the NCHC corporate brand for internal and external utilization. Effectively manage budget and analytics associated with these activities.

Work collaboratively and effectively to implement the emerging NCHC corporate brand across Global Corporate Affairs, corporate functions, and business units. Specifically, position requires close teamwork and collaboration, implementing the corporate brands in a variety of strategic and communications plans.

Qualifications

Position Requirements:
A Bachelor’s degree is required.
Minimum six years proven track record in brand marketing.
The position involves deep integration with senior leaders of the Corporate Equity and Partnerships team, Communications, Strategic Philanthropy, Global Health, Citizenship and Sustainability, business units, senior leadership, etc. to reflect the corporate brand.
Position requires a leader with strong branding and creative execution skills, and a proven ability to work with multiple external agency partners.
The candidate should be able to operate effectively in a matrixed organization to collaboratively drive projects to completion on-schedule.
Candidate must demonstrate a proven track record for best-in-class creative development.
Superior marketing capabilities, strong leadership, collaboration and listening skills are crucial for this role.
The ideal candidate must be open to and understand various points of view beyond marketing, and effectively integrate with multiple parts of the enterprise to reflect core attributes of the NCHC corporate brand.
The ideal candidate must have the leadership skills and personal credibility to be viewed as a vital asset to multiple teams and enable the attributes of the NCHC brand to live in multiple areas beyond their own direct accountabilities for marketing and advertising.

Preferred Requirements/Competencies
MBA is preferred.
Business Mindset: Use business and market insights to support, advise on, and identify solutions.
Trusted Business Partner: Builds and maintains trusted partnerships with internal stakeholders across functions and leverages influential communication to frame analytical insights and develop fact-based business strategies focused on value creation.
Digital Champion/Technology Advocate: Embrace and practice a digital mindset through encouraging and role modelling the use of technology.
Agility and Innovation: Leverages an agile and creative mindset to adapt to change and drive innovative value creation, continuous process improvement, and proactive learning through new technology, processes, and people.
Strong writing skills.

Primary Location

United States-New Jersey-Skillman-199 Grandview Road

Other Locations

Switzerland-Zug-Zug, Europe/Middle East/Africa-France, United Kingdom-England-High Wycombe, Latin America-Brazil-São Paulo-São Paulo

Organization

Johnson & Johnson (6067)

Job Function

Marketing

Requisition ID

2206080681W