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Account Director – Brand Comms, Health Team - Prestigious Top 10 Agency – London – to £50,000

Employer
Median
Location
London
Salary
to £50,000 depending on experience plus up to 24% bonus!
Closing date
3 Oct 2018

Job Details

Account Director – Brand Communications, Health Team - Prestigious Top 10 Agency – London – to £50,000 PLUS additional bonus & profit share up to 24% of your salary!

My client is an international communications consultancy trusted by some of the highest profile organisations, governments and individuals in the world with offices in Washington DC, New York, Singapore, Doha and Nairobi, as well as in London.

The team:

Health, public health and social care services are changing rapidly in response to the UK’s financial challenges and a population that is growing and getting older. As structures, systems and priorities shift, my client makes sure their clients keep a sharp focus on meeting their business objectives and delivering what matters most to patients and their families.

My client helps them successfully navigate through this complex and fast-changing landscape, strengthening trust and protecting reputations.

With such a skilled team, my client is able to do some really exciting work, using old and new channels. From designing hard-hitting poster campaigns and building bespoke digital channels, to conducting behavioural research and creating expert-led policy projects, their integrated team helps deliver exceptional results for clients.

My client is now looking for an established Account Director PR experience and strong experience across the pharmaceutical and health sector. 

This should include experience of supporting teams who are drafting pharmaceutical product and disease awareness material, providing reference packs and facilitating approvals, generating media coverage, supporting the running of public events, and managing political and/or stakeholder relationships (Key Opinion Leaders and Patient Groups) for a diverse range of clients and therapeutic areas

You will also have a solid understanding of the way the NHS is structured, the drug approval and Health Technology Assessment (HTA) processes.

Key responsibilities:

  • Providing leadership and strategic counsel on major complex client accounts
  • Driving significant new business effort – conceive, lead and project manage new business proposals and pitches
  • Directing major accounts/projects
  • Leading marketing drive setting up events, and promoting products
  • Leading integrated comms/ PR offers
  • Line managing team members (Account Managers, Account Executives and Researchers) and overseeing their career development.

Qualifications, skills and competencies:

  • Have relevant, senior level PR experience gained from an agency, in-house or government role
  • Have a strong commercial acumen with a track record of shaping an agency's growth and success
  • Have the ability to be a key influencer with the gravitas to provide senior leadership and counsel on major complex accounts
  • Have excellent client servicing and interpersonal skills, as well as a real ability to lead pitch teams
  • Proven ability to grow and lead teams
  • The tenacity to drive marketing and business development
  • Exceptional written and oral communication skills, excellent client-consultation skills as well as client and agency growth and development.

What is offered in return:

  • My client is committed to employee development and has an open doors culture where you will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced people in the business. They regularly reward and promote success, and actively encourage staff to take on new challenges and responsibilities to aid progression.
  • The remuneration package also includes competitive pension contributions, private healthcare life assurance cover, company contribution to gym membership, company parties, free daily breakfast and much, much more!
  • In addition, every permanent member of staff is eligible for their industry leading quarterly bonus scheme and annual profit share. When the business thrives, all of their people share in that success.

In return for your talent and endeavour, my client offers a most competitive basic salary of up to £50,000 depending on experience, you will also be eligible for my client’s industry leading quarterly bonus scheme and annual profit share – worth up to an additional 24% of your annual salary! 

Please forward your CV without delay and in complete confidence to [email protected]

Company

Two Time Winner – Recruiter Awards for Excellence

Median Recruitment is one of the UK’s leading specialist PR and communications recruitment consultancies. Established in 1998, over the years Median has helped literally thousands of Public Relations professionals take their next step on the career ladder.

Our success means we have received an unprecedented five consecutive nominations at the prestigious Recruiter Awards for Excellence in the category of “Best Media Recruiter” with wins in 2006 and 2007.

At present we are recruiting on behalf of many of the top 100 UK and international PR agencies, in addition to the in-house PR departments of several world renowned blue-chip companies.

To assist our candidates, we have dedicated recruiters at all levels of PR, from graduate entry level through to account management, right up to board level. In addition, we have a team dedicated to freelance and contract positions. The team consists of highly intelligent consultants, some of whom are from the PR industry itself.

Through referrals, incentive schemes, network events and with a brand that is now entrenched in the PR market, Median attracts a wide audience of PR candidates. As a result we have been able to seriously invest in advertising and our banners, buttons and job advertisements are by far the most recognised on all the main leading PR job boards, websites and publications.

Located in the heart of London’s West End, Median Recruitment truly understands the specific requirements of PR firms and in-house departments; that’s why so many of them trust us, and us alone, to search and select their candidates.

Please don’t hesitate to contact one of our consultants on 020 7292 0455 for further information or visit our website at www.medianrecruit.co.uk

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020 7292 0455
Location
3 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5PD
GB

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