Focus: member of the Health Senior Leadership Team responsible for the Health team’s strategy including annual revenue targets, news business approach, project planning and management, team resourcing and staff recruitment. Developing unbranded disease awareness and patient advocacy campaigns for pharmaceutical clients. Therapy areas: breast cancer, asthma, dermatology. Further, copywriting corporate positioning papers for consumer health client on R&D safety (botanicals ingredients, alternatives to animal testing and biodegradability). Additionally: Line management for three direct reports, and senior PR strategist to wider Health team and London office.

Focus: developing strategic global and UK communications plans, narratives and campaigns for pharmaceutical and consumer health clients, across digital, social and traditional media, as well as onsite logistics lead at congresses. Therapy areas: oncology (lung), ophthalmology, vaccines (influenza and meningitis), dermatology. Additionally: member of the Health Senior Leadership Team responsible for annual revenue targets and team resourcing. Line management for three direct reports.

Shire is now part of Takeda. Internal and external communications role. Focus: owning and implementing a strategic corporate communications plan for the European region that supported business priorities across several rare disease indications. Providing counsel to the region’s Commercial Head and Leadership Team on key projects. Additionally: Led the Region Europe Corporate Affairs Network, alongside colleagues in government affairs and patient advocacy. Member of the International crisis and issue management team, which reviewed and improved internal procedures and held quarterly training for staff. Supported change communications to Shire staff during Takeda acquisition.

Focus: Developing impactful global communications plans, narratives and media campaigns (branded and unbranded) around key data and medicine milestones, working collaboratively with different business functions (medical, regulatory, legal, commercial, government affairs etc.). Supporting company spokespeople through media training and anticipating and preparing for issues with reactive messaging. Therapy areas: global public health (antimicrobial resistance, maternal + neonatal health working with Save The Children) and rare diseases (gene therapy for SCID). Additionally: creating external global corporate messaging around data transparency and public-private partnerships.

Creating high quality global media materials to support medicine launches. Therapy areas: lupus and rare diseases.

Logistical support for global internal events (webcasts, townhalls) as well as creation and distribution of global news via e-newsletters and intranet updates. Led global channel simplification project to enable staff to access key information quickly and efficiently.

Public relations role. Focus: drafting global media materials for pharmaceutical clients to support their data milestones. Therapy area: oncology (haematology and lung). Line manager to one direct report and providing coaching and mentoring to additional junior staff.

Public relations role. Focus: crafting media materials for pharmaceutical clients. Therapy area: occupational health (hand eczema).

Medical writing role. Focus: reading clinical trial papers, company research documents, attending advisory boards in order to craft educational materials for physicians and organise educational events. Therapy area: diabetes.

10 week laboratory-based research position investigating equine dental decay.