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Job Description
A thriving healthcare PR and digital communications agency is looking for a bright account executive to join the healthcare team. If you have a passion for health and experience from your time as a JAE/ in an internship/ placement year, or other healthcare PR industry experience, and are looking to launch a career in a healthcare PR agency, with all the variety that entails, then this is the role for you.
While professional experience and qualifications are key for this role, make sure to check you have the preferable soft skills before applying if required.
The agency:
- Independent PR agency offering a full range of marketing, communications and public relations services, for both UK and international clients in the healthcare sector.
- Clients include top 10 pharmaceutical companies, consumer health and nutrition companies and NHS.
- Flexible - there is the potential to work three days in the office and two from home
- Committed to individual training and development to ensure that your development is supported
- Team-centric culture in which all are encouraged to share ideas and valued equally
The account executives job:
- You will liaise directly with the media by selling-in stories
- Content development, events, media rollouts and much more for a range of clients across prescription medicines, medical devices, OTC, NHS and social care.
- You will be given responsibility early on for overseeing and mentoring the junior account executives
- Client-facing: you will need to have great interpersonal skills
You:
- Degree or of graduate calibre in the life science field
- Good knowledge of the pharma, healthcare, and media environments
- Excellent verbal and communication skills
- Organised, excellent time management skills and able to work to a deadline
- Minimum of 6 months or equivalent experience at JAE level within a comparable industry