Director, Investor Relations

Job Description

Position Description:

Director, Investor Relations

The Investor Relations (IR) team serves as the interface between our Company and the investment community, working regularly with executive management to communicate our Company’s key messages about strategy, performance and outlook in a consistent, credible and strategic manner while monitoring and sharing the views of the investment community to senior leaders.

This individual will be responsible for collaborating with the IR team in developing and executing the global investor relations program. This will include helping develop corporate messages, presentations and analyses in support of quarterly earnings, investor conferences, medical meetings and other investor engagements. This individual is expected to serve as a liaison for day-to-day inquiries from investors and sell-side analysts, and monitor and analyze trading data, industry trends, and peer company performance. To perform these activities, this individual will need to collaborate across multiple functional areas in the company to ensure alignment in messages for external audiences.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

• Ensure investors and analysts have an accurate depiction of the company by effectively developing and communicating our Company messages about strategy, performance and outlook through written materials and in virtual and live engagements. This includes addressing questions from investors and analysts in a professional and compliant manner.

• Work with the IR team in collaboration with others in the organization to:

  • Develop written materials, such as key messages and Q&A for use on quarterly earnings calls, investor conferences, medical meetings and other key investor engagements.

  • Develop appropriate strategies for analyst discussions in preparation for and in reaction to earnings releases and other significant events.

  • Understand potential changes to budgets and forecasts and proactively assess potential impact from IR perspective. 

  • Perform adhoc analysis as needed to ensure an understanding of key metrics and drivers for the Company and how these compare to sell-side and buy-side perceptions.

• Ensure IR team is appropriately prepared to communicate key messages associated with medical conferences, data publications and other events of interest to investment community.

• Maintain comprehensive knowledge of our Company’s products, pipeline, business, financials, competitors and financial markets to assist in representing our Company to investment community.

Position Qualifications:

Education Minimum Requirement:

• Batchelor's Degree

Required Experience and Skills:

• Unwavering team orientation in pursuit of IR team/our Company’s achievement of success.

• Strong work ethic with high energy and an insatiable appetite to learn.

• Superior ability to absorb, comprehend, interpret and synthesize large amounts of data and information.

• Strong ability to think at enterprise level, anticipate events and resolve challenges.

• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills.

• Outstanding oral and written communication skills with ability to effectively present to large audiences.

• Analytically minded with ability to comprehend and communicate detailed financial, product and scientific information.

• Understanding of the financial modeling techniques used by security analysts to project a company's operating and financial performance and determine valuation for its stock.

• Understanding of and curiosity about global financial markets.

• Aptitude for science and curiosity about research pipelines of our Company and peers.

• Ability to perform duties in a fast-paced, oftentimes stressful and uncertain environment, with tight time deadlines.

• Ability to effectively work within cross-functional teams.

• Willingness and ability to travel (approximately 10-20%) and to work mostly in-office.

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Employees working in roles that the Company determines require routine collaboration with external stakeholders, such as customer-facing commercial, or research-based roles, will be expected to comply not only with Company policy but also with policies established by such external stakeholders (for example, a requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to access a facility or meet with stakeholders).  Please understand that, as permitted by applicable law, if you have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 and an essential function of your job is to call on external stakeholders who require vaccination to enter their premises or engage in face-to-face meetings, then your employment may pose an undue burden to business operations, in which case you may not be offered employment, or your employment could be terminated. Please also note that, where permitted by applicable law, the Company reserves the right to require COVID-19 vaccinations for positions, such as in Global Employee Health, where the Company determines in its discretion that the nature of the role presents an increased risk of disease transmission.

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Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.

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