Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs - South Korea

Job Description Summary   

The Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs, Korea is responsible executing end‑to‑end Corporate Affairs activities (Drug development, GPS, commercial communications) for the market with a focus on its portfolio and strategic priorities. This role is pivotal in shaping the company’s internal and external narrative, ensuring alignment with global standards and local priorities, and fostering a culture of transparency and collaboration across a large, diverse employee base. 

The role covers planning, development and execution of integrated communications across external and internal communications, media relations, corporate and brand reputation, disease awareness, employee engagement, and digital channels. The role reports to the Executive Director, Corporate Affairs, APAC & ICON. 

Main responsibilities:   

 End‑to‑End Communications Execution for the Korea market 

• Execute integrated, end‑to‑end Corporate Affairs plans for assigned brands, therapeutic areas, initiatives, from strategy and narrative development through implementation and measurement.  

• Translate the CA strategy into concrete communications plans, content and tactics, ensuring consistency across channels and stakeholders.  

• Ensure alignment with global frameworks, compliance standards and approval processes.  

• Manage agencies and external partners for assigned projects, ensuring quality, timelines and budget adherence.  

• Track, evaluate and report on activities using agreed KPIs and metrics.  

External Communications, Media & Reputation  

• Develop and execute external communications activities, including media relations, thought leadership, corporate storytelling and digital content, within the assigned scope.  

• Prepare messaging, Q&A, briefing materials and content for external milestones (e.g. data, launches, policy developments).  

• Support issues and crisis management through monitoring, content development and execution of agreed response strategies.  

Science, Brand, Product & Disease Awareness Communications  

• Execute integrated brand and disease awareness communications in support of priority products and therapeutic areas.  

• Drive communications for clinical trial recruitment  

• Develop and manage content across channels (earned, owned, digital), ensuring scientific accuracy, compliance and strategic relevance.  

• Work cross‑functionally with Medical, Commercial and Market Access/Policy to ensure aligned and effective execution.  

Patient Advocacy & Stakeholder Communications  

• Drive patient advocacy and stakeholder engagement with relevant patient organizations in line with BMS principles and governance.  

• Contribute to ensuring the patient and caregiver perspective is reflected in communications initiatives and cross‑functional projects.  

 Internal Communications & Employee Engagement  

• Execute internal communications and employee engagement initiatives within the assigned scope, aligned with market priorities and leadership messaging.  

• Ensure strong linkage between internal and external narratives.  

Education, Qualifications and Skills:  

• 7+ years of experience in brand, commercial, or corporate communications, preferably in the pharmaceutical industry.   

• Strong network of contacts across Korea.   

• Proven track record of delivering high impact integrated, multi‑channel communications programs in a regulated environment.  

• Good understanding of the political environment in the region and ability to interpret how the external changes can impact BMS and its reputation.   

• Strategic thinking and strong digital, writing, content creation and storytelling skills.  

• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-changing environment  

• Experience in working for large global organization, and strong ability to collaborate across the matrix with access, regulatory, medical and legal teams.  

• Excellent ability to partner with business stakeholders, experience in working with senior executives   

• Fluent in English and Korean