Communication Manager, Employee Engagement

At its locations around the world, Siegfried offers employees exciting career opportunities in international settings. We cultivate multidisciplinary cooperation and encourage our staff to actively shape and influence their careers. This approach, coupled with our dynamic working environment, make Siegfried an attractive employer.

Your role

In this highly diverse and dynamic position, you are part of the global communications team and you will take the overall lead for employee engagement and sponsoring. You will work closely with stakeholders across our locations globally as well as the senior management to develop and implement employee engagement strategies with the aim to transform our internal communications function to the next level and with a strong focus to support the company's long-term growth ambitions.

Develop and implement internal communication strategies to enhance employee engagement, cultivating a strong sense of belonging and brand ambassadorship across our global network
Create engaging internal content and compelling brand stories, including videos, articles, newsletters, presentations and other materials that inform, inspire, and align our global workforce.
Implement effective communication strategies for organizational initiatives, ensuring employees understand and embrace the initiatives.
Work in close cooperation with our global manufacturing sites to provide them with well-defined and high standard of advice, capabilities and competences. Lead internal communications for HQ as well as for our largest manufacturing site in Switzerland.
Implement metrics to measure the effectiveness of internal communications, using data-driven insights to refine strategies and tactics.
Act as the communications business partner for all internal functions, specifically for HR and the implementation of our employer branding strategy
Take the lead for the planning as well as the activation of our sponsoring activities. You ensure that our sponsoring platforms are in line with our company targets and that the activation plan best supports our internal and external communications strategy
Organize external and internal events with an innovative and detailed eye, looking for excellent quality and best possible leverage to strengthen our internal and external brand
As part of the global rebranding project and you will take the lead to implement the new brand positioning internally

Your profile

Broad experience in developing and implementing employee engagement for a global company and within a multi-cultural environment
Passionate communicator with demonstrated expertise to develop targeted content in all type of formats
In-depth knowledge of different internal communication channels and tools. Expert in Sharepoint based intranets and Office 365
Excellent English and German writing and editing skills
Hands on mentality and excited to operate both on strategic as well as on operational level
Bachelor's Degree in communications, public relations, journalism, mass communication, or related area
5-10 years of experience in corporate communications and internal communications
Self-motivated, entrepreneurial and collaborative mindset, with an appetite to build a growing communications function
Solid interpersonal skills to build strong working relationships with diverse stakeholders.
Ambitious, resilient personality who enjoys to work in a fast-paced environment

Working at Siegfried

Siegfried's work environment is dynamic and international. With a highly professional and motivated team, the company operates in a future-oriented business field. Siegfried possesses a unique culture that leverages cultural differences to create a competitive advantage. Siegfried places highest priority on providing a flexible, diverse and discrimination-free working environment in which employees can develop personally and professionally, advance innovation and deliver superior performance. We strive to provide a work environment where employees can take on challenging jobs and associated responsibilities that best serve their personal and technical development and can benefit from the success of our company. The company regulations in respect of compensation and career development opportunities apply to all Siegfried sites. Additional conditions of employment are governed by location-specific circumstances, legislation and customs.

Who we are

In the Midst of People’s Lives – Across the Globe

The Siegfried Group is one of the world’s leading Custom Development and Manufacturing Organizations (CDMOs) developing and producing active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), intermediates and finished dosage forms. As our core competence, we successfully integrate chemical and pharmaceutical capabilities into a single business model.

The Siegfried name stands for highest quality, efficiency, flexibility and safety. Present in Europe, Asia and North America, we serve a broad global customer base from major international pharmaceutical companies down to small biologic-pharmaceutical organizations. For them we develop and produce product innovations on a large scale to finished products. We integrate our offer seamlessly into the customers’ value chain. Our comprehensive services range from early-stage Research & Development services such as synthesis, scale-up, formulation development, stability studies and method development all the way through to manufacturing services, ranging from preclinical R&D material for clinical trial purposes to commercial production.

We are able to produce about 200 of the approximately 1500 registered drug substances used in medicine. Moreover, we produce 20 percent of global demand for caffeine. Consequently, nearly 1 billion individuals come into contact with Siegfried products.

What we do in Zofingen

Zofingen is the hub of the Siegfried Group. The production facility at our Zofingen headquarters supplies our customers around the globe with exemplary Swiss quality. The Siegfried company is a popular employer in the Zofingen region, where we meet our social responsibility by training apprentices.

Main activities

Development and commercial manufacture of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and corresponding intermediates
Fully compliant with cGMP and SHE (Safety, Health and Environmental) standards

Special features

Manufacture of high potency active ingredients in development and production
Micronization in development and production

Strategic importance

Contract manufacturing of new active ingredients

General Information