Associate Director, Health Advocacy

State of Oregon • Jersey City, PA

6d • Remote

About The Position

The Associate Director, Health Advocacy supports the execution, operationalization, and growth of the global patient advocacy capabilities at Organon. This role supports the Director in translating the advocacy strategy into tangible programs, partnerships, and initiatives that elevate patient voices and advance innovation, research, and access in Women’s Health. Working under the leadership of the Director, the Associate Director manages day-to-day engagement with advocacy organizations, supports strategic initiatives, coordinates cross-functional advocacy programs, and helps build the internal infrastructure required to sustain advocacy as a core enterprise capability. This role serves as a key connector between advocacy partners and internal teams across R&D, Medical Affairs, Commercial, Government Affairs, Communications, and Corporate Affairs to ensure advocacy perspectives are integrated across the organization.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Five years of experience in patient advocacy, health care, public health, nonprofit leadership or related health care field.
• Patient-centered mindset.
• Execution and project management: strong organizational and project management skills, ability to manage multiple initiatives, detail oriented with strong operational discipline.
• Relationship management: ability to build trust with advocacy partners and internal stakeholders.
• Communication: excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to help prepare executive level materials, when needed.
• Collaboration and influence: ability to work cross functionally across diverse teams, ability to operate in complex organizational environments.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree such as MPH, MPP, MBA or related field preferred.
• Experience specifically in Women’s Health is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Advocacy Strategy Execution and Program Management Support the execution of the global patient advocacy strategy, road map, and key initiatives.
• Manage operational implementation of advocacy programs, including roundtables, convenings, publications and other strategic initiatives.
• Coordinate across functions to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities.
• Support development of annual advocacy plans, objectives, timelines and deliverables.
• Track and monitor advocacy initiatives to ensure timely and effective execution.
• Advocacy Partnership Management and Engagement Serve as an operational point of contact for advocacy organizations supporting relationship development and ongoing engagement.
• Help maintain regular communication with advocacy partners to support collaboration and shared initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to support advocacy organizations through strategic engagement, capability building and bidirectional collaboration.
• Support identification, onboarding, and management of new advocacy partnerships.
• Advocacy Capability Building and Internal Integration Help support the programs and tactics behind the enterprise-wide advocacy capability.
• Support development of internal processes, tools and frameworks for advocacy engagement.
• Coordinate internal advocacy community of practice and support cross functional working groups.
• Ensure internal teams have access to patient insights and advocacy perspectives.
• Support integration of patient voice into R&D, Medical Affairs, Policy, and Commercial initiatives.
• Content Development and Thought Leadership Support Support development of advocacy-related materials including white papers, position papers, briefing documents, and presentations.
• Contribute to development of advocacy communications and storytelling that elevate patient voice.
• Operations, Budget and Performance Tracking Support management of advocacy budgets, contracts and operational processes.
• Support preparation of internal reports dashboards and leadership updates.

Benefits

• retirement savings plan
• paid vacation and holiday time
• paid caregiver/parental and medical leave
• health benefits including medical, prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level