Job Title: Account Director-Health
Location: LONDON
Job type:Full-time
Company: Edelman
Deadline: 28/08/2013
Job Req #: 2457
Description
The Company:
Edelman is the largest independent Public Relations Company in the world. Since its establishment in 1952, the company has developed to become truly international, operating in 54 offices around the world.
Edelman works for some of the world’s leading brands and employs some of the industry’s top talent. As the world’s largest independent PR agency, we are able to offer an enviable combination of being a well-established international network as well as having the flexibility to maintain an entrepreneurial spirit.
Edelman prides itself on nurturing professional growth and developing talent, providing a creative and fun working environment to bring out the best ideas whilst also building a culture of Mutual Respect and Citizenship.
Edelman was named as one of the ‘Best Companies to Work For’ by Best Companies in 2010. In addition to this, Edelman was the only organisation to score a ‘gold’ rating on the PR Week Global Agency Report Card 2010.
The Team:
Edelman’s Health team is one of the largest health specialist communication offers in the UK. The fast-expanding team is responsible for the management of international and UK programmes for leading healthcare companies across the world. The team comprises of three key groups covering Health marketing communications (Health Rx), Medical Education (BioScience International) and Consumer Health Marketing (Wellness and Lifestyle).
The Role:
An opportunity has arisen for an experienced Account Director to work within the Healthcare RX team on both Global and UK accounts.
The Account Director will take a leadership role on exciting accounts, ensuring account programmes are delivered to a high standard, meeting our client’s business objectives. The Account Director’s role will be focussed on strategic counsel and will involve leading the team to think strategically.
The successful candidate will have an expert knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and a strong knowledge of their brand’s landscape and competitive environment. They will also have gained experience of planning programmes throughout a brand’s lifecycle applying their knowledge across accounts. Experience in oncology or diabetes is a plus.
Within the Healthcare Senior Operations Team the Account Director will be responsible for driving key areas of managing our business such as New Business or Marketing.
Responsibilities include:
Leading accounts and being responsible for the overall management of brand programmes
Keeping abreast of new developments, trends and opportunities
Coaching, supervising and managing other team members to deliver a quality programme, often across departments, offices and regions
Line management and people development, including recruitment
Responsible for leading new business
Responsible for your account’s billing each month and the ongoing financial planning.
Key Requirements:
Excellent understanding of the pharmaceutical industry
Understanding of budgeting client programmes
Demonstrated strong writing skills
Demonstrated strong client management/leadership/strategic counselling skills
Proven success leading media events
Demonstrated people management skills
Network of industry and media (global and UK) contacts.
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