Senior Account Director – Healthcare Communications

If you are tired of big network agency politics and restrictions, it’s time to think about joining a boutique healthcare PR and communications agency with an excellent reputation for staff support and development. Perhaps you’d like to specialise or expand your skillset into patient advocacy and disease awareness… if so this could be the agency for you.

They are looking for a Senior Account Director to join their friendly and supportive team, with solid experience in account handling and client services (ideally in an integrated Healthcare Communications, advertising / medical communications agency).

A bit about the company:

• Independent Healthcare Communications agency, with a healthy and varied client list across pharma and healthcare companies.
• Mostly global work with a fantastic variety, you will get to create disease awareness campaigns, work closely with patient advocacy groups as well as more ‘traditional’ PR campaigns, engaging with the media etc.
• Inspirational and involved senior leadership team to learn alongside and progress your career. Training is prioritised at all levels, they have fantastic internal training resources, engage regular external training consultants and provide everyone with a £500 personal development budget.
• Extremely friendly and sociable culture, regular trips abroad for work. The team work near London Bridge on a hybrid model and can be flexible around days in the office etc.

The Senior Account Director’s Role:

• As a Senior Account Director you will act as a key partner to clients, clients e.g., in international pharmaceutical companies, patient groups, DoH, etc, building strong relationships, providing strategic counsel and leading on delivery
• Enjoy keeping up to date with industry developments, the most groundbreaking new therapies and treatments and the latest scientific innovations.
• You will provide proactive and reactive counsel to clients, domestic and international
• Insight generation and creative input into campaign ideas
• Overseeing teams to deliver on project management, ensuring projects and campaigns are running to time, brief and budget

Senior Account Director Requirements

• The Senior Account Director will need experience up to at least Account Director level in a UK Healthcare Communications/ PR agency, or a medical communications and advertising agency.
• A relevant degree in either the life sciences or a communications focused degree
• Strong working knowledge of the healthcare comms landscape, passion for healthcare and pharma, knowledge of ABPI, health media, etc.
• Exceptional organisational and leadership skills

This is a wonderful opportunity to join an independent healthcare agency that is going places. Their growth since being founded is truly impressive but they have retained all the good bits of small agency culture.  Exciting work in areas of disease awareness and patient advocacy make this a really exciting prospect for anyone looking to progress their career in Healthcare Communications.