Our client is an international PR agency working in a number of specialist markets. Due to expansion they have an opportunity for an account manager to join their West London based team.

The Role:

The office has recently expanded and moved out to West London and they are now looking to recruit an account manager for their healthcare team. They have a range of healthcare clients, some UK and some international, drawn from the ethical pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics and charitable sectors. The ideal candidate would be comfortable dealing with medical clients, surgeons, microbiologists and NHS managers and have a proven track record in packaging stories at both national print and broadcast level and for medical trade journals. You would be expected to work both as part of a team, often on global accounts liaising with teams in other offices, but also be happy to lead and manage projects autonomously, answering directly to the client. The role will include an element of new business work and occasional international travel.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Previous experience in healthcare PR or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of and be interested in different fields of healthcare and be familiar with typical campaign strategies
• Experience of dealing with and promoting peer-reviewed articles
• Excellent medical press release and feature writing skills
• Organised, with fine-tuned attention to detail and proven ability of ‘pulling together’ all strands of a PR account, allocating tasks and managing upwards and downwards
• Experience of new media formats such as blogging and Twitter
• Creative ideas & strategic plan generation
• Strong pitching skills
• Adaptive to working with teams in other offices, across different cultures
• Healthcare contacts at the nationals and contacts at medical publications are preferable

Package:

In return you can expect competitive package of salary and benefits.

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