Hanover
Account Executive | Healthcare Communications | London
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About us
Hanover is an award-winning communications consultancy that advises enterprises, institutions, and individuals on building recognition and enhancing reputation.
From our offices across Europe and the Middle East, we adopt an integrated approach that connects the dots across channels, audiences and issues.
Our collective of smart, curious people think differently and live by a shared mission, purpose, vision, and values. These shape how we work, not just with our colleagues, but with clients and partners too.
Our mission is to ‘rewire communications for impact’ and harness its transformative power to advocate, trailblaze and make a difference.
We do this by igniting and empowering the potential of every individual within our company, recognising that each person is a unique spark, capable of creating extraordinary impact. We believe that by nurturing and harnessing the collective brilliance of our people, we can drive innovation, foster an uncommon work culture, and make a positive difference to society.
Embracing the complete range of skills and services across the communications spectrum without constraint, we create the best outcomes for our clients and deliver world-class work.
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Account Executive to join our Healthcare Communications team, joining a team of experts in product PR, patient advocacy, crisis management, disease awareness, corporate communications and media relations.
The Account Executive provides high-quality public relations services to Hanover’s existing healthcare clients, together with timely research and administrative support for new business activity.
The Account Executive is also responsible for supporting media outreach, providing administrative support for client meetings, and establishing demonstrably credible working relationships with clients, where appropriate.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Stay abreast of the media, with the goal of identifying opportunities for coverage
- Draft high quality materials for client review
- Maintain relevant records of target stakeholder and audience groups relevant to your clients and sectors
- Deliver specifically assigned areas of each discrete/new project to agreed timescales, on budget and to a high quality
- Conduct value-add research and produce high quality draft intelligence reports for existing clients and sector specific new business meetings
- Draft client meeting agendas and effective action notes arising from internal account meetings and sector specific new business meetings, together with efficient maintenance of new business databases
- Contribute towards selected new business pitches as part of the wider team
Requirements
- Previous experience in a relevant PR and communications position from either a public relations consultancy or in-house communications team
- Good knowledge and understanding of healthcare communications
- Excellent written and verbal communications skills
- Strong attention to detail and highly organised
- Effective time management and strong organisational skills
- Experience of working collaboratively as part of a team
- Demonstrable interest in media, news and current affairs
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, your core benefits package will include:
- Bonus potential linked to recruitment, new business and long service
- 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Private healthcare and dental insurance
- Travel insurance
- A company pension plan, including 5% employer contribution
You’ll also have access to a wide range of opportunities and initiatives, including:
- Flexible working policies, plus eligibility to apply for a sabbatical after 2 years’ service
- Summer Fridays finish (3pm) – early Friday finish the rest of the year (4pm)
- The Hanover Academy, which incorporates training, coaching, mentoring and reverse-mentoring opportunities to support personal development and career progression across all levels, with a generous training budget
- International secondments as well as the opportunity to collaborate with all offices across the AVENIR GLOBAL’s network
- A wellbeing programme, featuring (but not limited to) pre- and post-maternity leave coaching, a working parents’ group, subsidised gym membership
- Our Culture Club, with a robust social calendar all year round and CSR activity.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement +
Hanover Communications is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating and ensuring a fair, inclusive, and diverse work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that equality and diversity are essential to high performance and a thriving culture.
We maintain a strict no-tolerance stance against any form of discrimination and harassment, ensuring all individuals are treated equitably, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital or pregnancy status, genetic background, or any other attribute safeguarded under our company policies or federal, state or local laws and legislation.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email to
We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use your data, including ensuring we comply with legal obligations relating to data protection. You can view our data privacy policy here. Hanover is part of AVENIR GLOBAL’s powerhouse of specialist communications consultancies across EMEA and North America. Collectively we rank among the top 15 largest communication firms in the world. Find out more about Hanover and working for us.
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