About us
Hanover is an award-winning communications consultancy that advises enterprises, institutions, and individuals on building recognition and enhancing reputation.
From our offices across Europe and the Middle East, we adopt an integrated approach that connects the dots across channels, audiences and issues.
Our collective of smart, curious people think differently and live by a shared mission, purpose, vision, and values. These shape how we work, not just with our colleagues, but with clients and partners too.
Our mission is to ‘rewire communications for impact’ and harness its transformative power to advocate, trailblaze and make a difference.
We do this by igniting and empowering the potential of every individual within our company, recognising that each person is a unique spark, capable of creating extraordinary impact. We believe that by nurturing and harnessing the collective brilliance of our people, we can drive innovation, foster an uncommon work culture, and make a positive difference to society.
Embracing the complete range of skills and services across the communications spectrum without constraint, we create the best outcomes for our clients and deliver world-class work.
We are seeking a highly motivated, self-starting Senior Account Executive to be part of our Healthcare Communications team, joining a team of experts in product PR, patient advocacy, crisis management, disease awareness, corporate communications, and media relations.
The Senior Account Executive provides high-quality public relations services to Hanover’s existing healthcare clients, together with timely research and administrative support for new business activity.
The Senior Account Executive is also responsible for supporting press conferences and media events as well as providing administrative support for client meetings. Senior Account Executives are required to establish demonstrably credible working relationships with clients as well as having exceptional project management capabilities.
Primary Responsibilities:
Stay abreast of the media, with the goal of identifying opportunities for coverage
Draft high quality materials for client review
Maintain relevant records of target stakeholder and audience groups relevant to your clients and sectors
Contribute towards and actively participate in events including press conferences and stakeholder events, as agreed with project managers
Deliver specifically assigned areas of each discrete/new project to agreed timescales, on budget and to a high quality
Conduct value-add research and produce high quality draft intelligence reports for existing clients and sector specific new business meetings
Draft client meeting agendas and effective action notes arising from internal account meetings and sector specific new business meetings, together with efficient maintenance of new business databases
Contribute towards selected new business pitches as part of the wider team
Requirements
Previous experience in a relevant PR and communications position from either a UK public relations consultancy or in-house communications team
Good knowledge and understanding of healthcare communications
Excellent written and verbal communications skills
Good existing business media contacts and a string desire to broaden and deepen these relationships
Strong attention to detail and highly organised
Effective time management and strong organisational skills
Experience of working collaboratively as part of a team
Demonstrable interest in UK media, business news and current affairs
A strong understanding of how using AI can make our work more effective and more efficient
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, your core benefits package will include:
Bonus potential linked to recruitment, new business and long service
25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays)
Private healthcare and dental insurance
Travel insurance
A company pension plan, including 5% employer contribution
You’ll also have access to a wide range of…