Senior Communications Business Partner – Sustainability & Corporate Topics

About the role

The Corporate Communications Business Partnering Team seeks a senior advisor to guide senior leaders on sustainability and corporate topics. Reporting to the Head of Corporate Strategy and Sustainability Communications Business Partnering, you will shape and execute communications that protect and enhance Roche’s reputation.

Key responsibilities

• Develop integrated communications strategies and core messaging for designated business partners, elevating Roche’s reputation with internal and external audiences.
• Drive reputation outcomes in sustainability and other corporate topics, overseeing end‑to‑end content creation, tools, channels, and mechanisms in partnership with GC Centres of Excellence.
• Collaborate with the Digital Communications CoE to establish robust metrics and evaluate communication effectiveness.
• Provide proactive, strategic counsel, anticipating impacts, risks and opportunities while delivering insight‑based recommendations.
• Build trusted relationships with partners and stakeholders, navigating diverse views under pressure to reach solid decisions.
• Bridge corporate and sustainability strategy with GC strategy, briefing CoEs on business rationale and ensuring quality execution.
• Identify synergies with other Communications Business Partners, aligning across corporate strategy, sustainability, and site organisations.

Required profile

• 10+ years of experience in strategic communications across corporate, sustainability, reporting, policy, internal and external media relations.
• Relevant university degree, preferably in journalism or strategic communications.
• Strong knowledge of corporate sustainability topics, ideally within the healthcare industry, and a systems‑thinking mindset.
• Executive presence, business acumen, consulting and intercultural skills to influence senior leaders in a matrixed, multicultural environment.
• Native‑level English writing and verbal communication; additional language skills are a plus.