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Becton Dickinson

Public Relations Summer Associate

Public Relations Summer Associate
BD is a leading global medical technology company that develops, manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents. The Company is dedicated to improving people's health throughout the world. BD is focused on improving drug delivery, enhancing the quality and speed of diagnosing infectious diseases and cancers, and advancing research, discovery and production of new drugs and vaccines. BD's capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world's most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 28,000 people in approximately 50 countries throughout the world. The Company serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, the pharmaceutical industry and the general public. For more information, please visit www.bd.com.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

• Seeking energetic, articulate, self-starter to work with a dynamic corporate public relations group that supports BD’s medical and diagnostics business platforms by developing and implementing strategic communications initiatives that raise awareness of the Company’s role in addressing important global healthcare issues -- including HIV/AIDS, healthcare-associated infections, cancer, and diabetes.  
• The PR group is responsible for issues-monitoring, strategic messaging, media relations, spokesperson identification and training, third-party alliances, and special media-related events.
• The associate will be involved in a variety of tasks relating to all of the above

BD is a multi-billion dollar medical technology company that manufactures and sells a broad range of supplies, devices and systems for use by healthcare professionals, medical research institutions, industry and the general public. For the past century, BD has offered products and services that have improved the quality of life for millions of people and advanced medical research around the world. BD is a Fortune 500 company and employs over 24,000 associates worldwide.  As one of the word's leading medical device companies, we have a profound effect on global health every day.  Virtually all of the vaccines ever delivered, all of the blood tested, and all of the diseases researched, have involved BD.  Our mission of "helping all people live healthy lives" reveals not only our humanitarian nature, but also our unique ability to touch billions of people.

FYI - BD's CEO is Mr. Edward J. Ludwig, a member of the Holy Cross Class of 1973.

Location: Franklin Lakes, NJ (35 minutes northwest of the George Washington Bridge in Bergen County)

Qualifications: Class of 2010 or 2011.  You must be admitted to the Summer Internship Program to apply for this internship. 

Candidates should have excellent writing skills and verbal communications skills, and a willingness to multi-task in a fast paced environment.

To Apply: Submit a resume and cover letter via CrusaderConnections.

Deadline: Thursday, March 26, 2009 at 11:59 pm EDT

For more information, please visit http://www.bd.com