Account Manager
London
Edelman – Health /
Full-Time
/ Hybrid
At Edelman Health we are on a mission to help the world's largest pharmaceutical companies and healthcare brands build and safeguard trust with an ever-growing audience of stakeholders, and show how their complex products deliver the thing we all value most - life.
The Health Team at Edelman strategically partner with clients to deliver global, regional and UK integrated campaigns for disease awareness, medical education, patient and employee engagement, digital communications, and much more!
Championing diverse skills, backgrounds and specialisms in our team is the key to our success, and it is this collective of 50 brilliant PR, medical and scientific communications professionals that has helped make us an award winning agency! This year we collected a Gold Cannes Lion in the Healthcare sector for our work, See My Skin, for Vaseline. Learn more about our recent wins here.
Successfully winning new business and growing accounts, our team are now looking for passionate PR professionals to join Edelman Health. So, if you are looking to take your career in Health PR to the next level and work with some of the best in the industry, gaining exposure to some of the biggest accounts in the business, keep reading, this role could be for you...
The Role
Joining the team as an Account Manager your prior experience working in PR or communications marketing within the Healthcare sector will allow you to work as a trusted daily client contact, driving and managing projects and accounts of all sizes whilst sharing your knowledge of the client’s business, and their key audiences, to your account team. In this role you will need to confidently evidence the ability delegate tasks up and down, assess and provide feedback to/edit other team member’s written work and develop and execute communications plans based on client’s goals. You will also be responsible for client-related finance management, including managing projects within budget.
Experience
- Solid experience working in a PR role within an agency or similar communications marketing field.
- An experienced writer who can tailor their style across a range of materials and project objectives.
- A proven track record of delivering results and executing campaigns.
- Demonstrated ability to multitask and deliver results under pressure.
Skills and Attributes
- An excellent written and verbal communicator.
- Strong project management skills and keen attention to detail.
- An out-of-the-box thinker able to generate creative campaign ideas.
- Can share best practice and give positive and constructive feedback to the team.
- Ability to direct the team to ensure workload is appropriately allocated.
- Ability to initiate innovate and creativethinking, and engage team in ideation.
- Ability to develop creative written content for a variety of media / communications channels.
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Benefits
Our benefits and policies are designed to ensure our employees feel comfortable, inspired and equipped to thrive and do their best work. We offer a wide range of benefits across health, family, community, finance and time away including:
Competitive Annual Holiday plus an additional days holiday for your birthday and 3 days over the festive season.
Flexible working - Hybrid working policy and 30 days work from anywhere worldwide!
Financial Wellbeing - Pension plan, income protection, and life insurance at 4x annual salary.
Building a Family - Whether it’s maternity leave, adoptive leave or shared parental leave, take up to five months on full company pay. We also celebrate the arrival of your child or wedding day by offering a company child & wedding gift. In addition Edelman partners with Peppy, a specialist healthcare and wellbeing service that provides all employees with access to expert pregnancy and parenthood, menopause and fertility support.
Health and Wellbeing – Access to Private Medical Insurance, Digital GP and wellbeing program, Cycle to Work Scheme, subsidised corporate gym membership, a Quit Smoking Scheme, Annual flu vaccinations and 24/7 access to trained professionals in relation to a range of issues, in absolute confidence.
Personal and Professional Development - Clear progression routes and continuous training/professional development via Edelman Learning Institute
Community – Get to know your colleagues and unwind at our weekly staff get together. We also encourage everyone to take part in our Citizenship Activities where you can spend a day each year helping a charitable cause, paid for by us.
Our Values
Core to our culture are our values, which guide our behavior, support a client-centric approach, influence the way we work with each other, our clients and the community, and inspire great work.
The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence: Bringing the best of ourselves and partners to our clients.
The Freedom to be Constantly Curious: Tenacious, flexible and thorough approach that drives creativity and growth for clients and ourselves.
The Courage to do the Right Thing: Trusted and resilient partner, committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, that prioritizes the wellbeing of ourselves and our colleagues.
The Commitment to Positively Impact Society: Performing our work with an environmental conscience, and a sense of tolerance, fairness and equality.
Edelman is a provider of equal opportunities to all candidates regardless of race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, age, and other protected status as required by applicable law.
We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable, impactful, respectful and culturally-curious workplace that drives innovative thinking, cultivates diverse ideas, and promotes true collaboration among our employees and our partners. For further information visit: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion | Edelman
Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
For more information please visit: www.edelman.com
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