Associate Director, Corporate External Affairs, External Innovation & Business Development
Role Overview
CSL Behring seeks a communications leader to strengthen its reputation as a partner of choice for innovators developing therapies for rare and serious diseases.
The role works across Corporate Affairs, R&D, Search & Evaluation, Business Development, and Commercial teams.
The role may be based in Melbourne, Australia; King of Prussia or Waltham, US; or Zurich, Switzerland.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
CSL Behring seeks a communications leader to strengthen its reputation as a partner of choice for innovators developing therapies for rare and serious diseases.
The role works across Corporate Affairs, R&D, Search & Evaluation, Business Development, and Commercial teams.
The role may be based in Melbourne, Australia; King of Prussia or Waltham, US; or Zurich, Switzerland.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and execute a global external innovation and business development communications strategy.
- Build a partner-of-choice narrative across therapeutic areas and innovation platforms.
- Partner with senior leaders on strategic positioning and visibility.
- Lead executive thought leadership through presentations, speaking engagements, articles, media interviews, and events.
- Drive media relations and position CSL leaders as trusted voices in biotechnology and scientific communities.
- Develop integrated digital, social, and content campaigns for innovators, investors, and prospective partners.
- Create executive communications, partner stories, scientific capability profiles, conference materials, and website content.
- Maximise the impact of CSL participation in major scientific, partnering, and biotechnology conferences.
- Improve partner-facing digital presence and web experiences.
- Set metrics and reporting for reputation, awareness, engagement, and communications impact.
Qualifications and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, Marketing, or a related discipline.
- MBA or Master's degree in Communications is advantageous.
- Experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, or a related industry.
- 10+ years of relevant corporate or healthcare communications, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, or related-sector experience.
- Proven success supporting senior executives and scientific leaders in global organisations.
- Strong expertise in thought leadership, corporate reputation, and executive communications.
- Media relations experience, ideally in life sciences or healthcare; integrated multichannel campaign experience.
- Excellent writing, storytelling, and content development skills, including translating complex science into accessible narratives.
- Strong stakeholder management, influencing, judgement, project leadership, and presentation coaching capabilities.
- Strategic and commercially minded; collaborative, creative, and results-oriented.
About CSL Behring
CSL Behring is a global biotherapeutics company focused on therapies for immunology, hematology, cardiovascular and metabolic, respiratory, and transplant conditions.
Its scientific platforms include plasma fractionation, recombinant protein technology, and cell and gene therapy.
Application timing
- The stated application closing date is Friday, 23 October 2026.
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