Job Description
We are Health Unlimited and we are looking for a Senior Account Executive to join our communications and PR team. You will work with the brightest and most ambitious colleagues in health communications as well as across creative, digital and medical education. We take a creative approach to everything we do – putting our audience first to achieve tangible outcomes. We have an entrepreneurial culture, which encourages and supports everyone to bring the best ideas to our clients.
The Senior Account Executive role is fundamental within our agency. With experience in the healthcare communications industry, you will support all aspects of account delivery. You will quickly become your team’s right-hand person, relishing any task – no matter how big or small. While managing day-to-day tasks, you will have the opportunity to be part of creating work you’ll be proud of and being part of the continued growth of our agency.
Please note, this is a hybrid role with 3 days a week required in the London (Soho) office.
A bit about the role...
Main responsibilities
- Execution of projects to meet high standards and deadlines, ranging from ethical pharma to consumer health.
- Research lead and drafting of written materials for clients, such as press releases, website copy and social media content.
- Pitch press releases and news stories by phone or email to the media, media monitoring on behalf of your clients and producing coverage reports following sell-ins.
- Interest in and understanding of the consumer and ethical healthcare media landscape, as well as the environment of the brands within which you work.
- Logistical and administrative support and contribution to creative materials.
- Event organisation, including virtual and or on-site support (travel may be involved).
New business responsibilities
- Maintenance of an excellent standard of work, so we remain the agency our clients recommend
- Participation in new business proposals, including research and programme development
Agency responsibilities
- Management of purchases and cost tracking
- Understanding and management of project budgets
- Support the company’s social media team, ensuring content calendars and engagement across LinkedIn and Instagram channels remains active, topical and well-planned
- Monitor relevant industry awards for the company to enter and showcase its brilliant work
- Monitor industry and client trends and news
- Copywriting and English-language fluency, including the ability to interpret medical data for lay audiences or draft engaging content for diverse audiences (HCPs, patients, journalists, etc)
- Attention to detail and methodical approach to referencing documents, including experience with client electronic review platforms, eg Veeva PromoMats
- Presentation skills, in terms of developing PowerPoint slides, as well as effective verbal and written communication of ideas
- Execution of social media campaigns and content generation for healthcare clients
The benefits we offer focus on better balance between work and personal life, rewarding all our dedicated employees, rejuvenating health, body and mind and career development. We understand that our people are what makes us excellent, just a snapshot of the extensive benefits package we provide to support you includes:
- Holiday Entitlement – 25 days per year, increasing by one day per year after two years of service (up to a maximum of 30 days per holiday year)
- Purchase Holiday – opportunity to purchase up to five additional days of annual leave per year
- Birthday Day off
- Christmas Office Closure (usually three days) – separate to holiday entitlement
- Flexible Bank Holiday Days
- Volunteering Day
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption benefits
- Pension Contributions - in line with auto enrolment guidelines, 5% employee contribution and 3% employer
- Electrical Car Scheme
- Tastecard
- Opportunity to Working Abroad (up to 4 weeks)
- Long-Service Awards – at each five-year milestone
- Healthcare cashback scheme
- Social events
As an equal opportunities workplace, we have a commitment to ensuring equal employment opportunity regardless of race, colour, ancestry, religion, socio-economic status, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, neuro divergence, disability, gender, gender identity or expression. Whether you’re just getting your foot in the door, or you are an experienced employee whose life circumstances are shifting, we are committed to creating a workplace that reflects the world we want to live in and are therefore flexible to accommodate each individual's needs as best as we can.