Senior Manager, Corporate Affairs - South Korea

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.
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
We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.
How We Work
Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.
Supporting People with Disabilities
BMS is dedicated to ensuring that people with disabilities can excel through a transparent recruitment process, reasonable workplace accommodations/adjustments and ongoing support in the