Responsibilities:
1. Content Creation & Editorial Expertise
- Draft corporate press releases, media statements and press contributions
- Draft strategy messaging documents, leadership talking points and Q&As
- Translate Evotec’s strategy, science and financials into clear public language
- Coordinate the editorial plan for the strategic communications pipeline
2. Technical & Regulatory Coordination
- Coordinate the internal press release review and approval process
- Coordinate the press release distribution and technical publication process
- Coordinate with IR on required notifications to regulatory authorities
- Coordinate with Marketing on web and social media updates
3. Media Relations Operations
- Manage media requests and draft responses
- Handle journalist outreach and follow-ups
- Prepare interview briefings and backgrounders
- Monitor media activity and share relevant coverage with internal stakeholders
4. Governance & Qualiy Control
- Ensure consistent messaging across all communication assets
- Safeguard comms templates, corporate design and guidelines
5. Project & Campaign Execution
- Build strong internal network to facilitate and catalyze access to news flow
- Coordinate and collaborate with communication agencies
- Liaise with design and video agencies for visual and multimedia assets
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Communications, Journalism, Public Relations, or a related field
- Several years of experience in a comparable position
- Strong communicator and networker
- Self-starter, high level of self-initiative, strong hands-on mentality
- Independent, self-organized, pro-active, high‑output
- Highly resilient, calm under pressure
- Able to work closely with / challenge senior stakeholders
- Professional with PR / media / content background
- Exceptional writing skills (English + German)
- Experience with media work and ideally press office operations
- Strong project manager, organized, reliable
- Science background or high learning ability to navigate science context
- Comfortable translating science into accessible content
FR : Dans le cadre de sa politique Diversité, Evotec étudie, à compétences égales, toutes les candidatures dont celles des personnes en situation de handicap.
ENG : In the frame of our Diversity policy, Evotec considers, with equal competences, all applications including people with disabilities.
