Amylyx Pharmaceuticals is hiring a
Lead Corporate Communications

Summary

Join a dynamic team at Amylyx Pharmaceuticals as the Lead, Corporate Communications to drive external and internal communications strategy and programs in support of the company's science, pipeline, and overall brand.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree
• 10+ years of relevant work experience, with 5+ years of previous healthcare/pharma/biotech industry experience
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to effectively tailor communication to a broad collection of external and internal audiences
• Ability to translate complex scientific, clinical, and financial data into easy to communicate messaging
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, high-pressure, deadline driven environment
• Ability to adapt quickly, an energetic, efficient, and resourceful team player and individual contributor
• An active and effective leader
• A person with an insatiable appetite to learn more
• Ability to travel up to 20% if not local to the Boston area

Responsibilities

• Lead public relations plans and initiatives to drive key message penetration in media coverage, extend company awareness, and support Amylyx’ vision and goals
• Lead development of executive thought leadership strategy
• Develop press releases, media statements, key message documents, presentations, and other supporting materials; streamline and shepherd cross-functional review processes
• Ensure strong collaboration and scenario-planning across key functions to strategically elevate company milestones
• Build reporting and metrics to measure impact of PR/comms efforts and report impact to functional heads and executive leadership
• Help cultivate relationships with key media stakeholders, including journalists, bloggers, and relevant influencers
• Ensure excellence in media and communications materials, including development, writing, style, tone, approval: video scripts and final cuts, subscriber emails, flyers, media fact sheets, message documents, Q&As, brochures and related media materials
• Support development of effective media pitches, identify leads, manage logistics, and provide talking points for senior management media opportunities
• Oversee monitoring of industry news, creation and maintenance of media lists, conducting of media outreach campaigns, and providing of rapid responses to incoming media requests for interviews; identify proactive and reactive opportunities to maximize editorial placement
• Assist in developing strategic external communications plans for crisis management; carefully manage execution
• Train employees in media engagement policy as appropriate
• Support the corporate communications team’s integrated, global social media strategy that further establishes Amylyx as an industry leader, including helping write and post social content aligned with Amylyx messaging and assisting with social media community management
• Assist with efforts to activate employees through social and digital programs and activities
• Drive announcement-related website changes across main corporate and investor sites; provide input on other website content as needed (e.g., clinical trial sites, future disease awareness or advocacy websites)
• Develop subscriber email blasts to amplify company announcements
• Contribute to internal communications strategy promoting employee engagement and inclusivity
• Distill external corporate communications and investor relations announcements for an internal audience and draft executive talking points
• Provide recommendations to leadership on how to internally communicate complex or challenging topics
• Introduce new processes and tools to incorporate employee feedback and generate excitement for our R&D programs (e.g., surveys to name clinical trials and collect team achievements for end of year recap)
• Develop employee spotlight strategy and conduct interviews to write articles for intranet and social media as appropriate
• Recommend updates to optimize intranet (“Lynx”) experience; oversee implementation of those and all other requested Lynx updates
• Track reporting and metrics to measure impact