Senior Account Executive, Consumer Health & Wellbeing, £28k - £35k (depending on experience)

About The Job

Virgo Health is a specialist health communications agency, part of the GOLIN group and the wider IPG network of companies with more than 200 offices around the world as well as hubs in London, New York and Chicago. We are passionate about helping people to make better decisions around health and wellbeing. Whether it’s clinicians selecting the best treatment, patients understanding their disease better or empowering consumers to self treat, we always make sure that the human aspect is at the heart of what we do. We work with pharmaceutical, diagnostic and consumer health companies, industry bodies, public and private health providers as well as patient organisations. We support clients across the communications spectrum.

Our integrated consumer health team across Golin and Virgo are looking for a Senior Account Executive. Would you like to be part of a team that has won 2 Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity? Keep reading!

What is the role?

We’re looking for a media savvy Senior Account Executive (SAE) to work on leading consumer health and sports brands. As a SAE you will play a key role in the smooth running of client accounts, developing strong client relationships and delivering projects and content. You will coordinate your workload, and the workloads of those reporting to you to deliver high standards of work to deadlines while prioritising to manage time.

This is a fantastic opportunity to work on very well-known consumer brands in the UK and Globally, delivering impactful earned-media strategies and award-winning creative campaigns which achieve real change.

What will you be doing?

• Develop materials that are tailored to different types of media/clients to a good standard ready for the delivery
• Craft compelling content for both proactive and reactive use that gets cut through in media
• Liaise with spokespeople and play a key role facilitating broadcast days, research projects and news wires
• Have a strong understanding of the consumer health media landscape, develop pitches and sell in to target journalists
• Develop and share your knowledge of the accounts that you work in
• Support AMs / senior team with research for proposals and development of new business pitches
• Contribute to team brainstorms and keep abreast of key trends and cultural moments relevant to clients
• Liaising with clients, play an active role in any team meetings and leading on some projects/activities, as well as leading on some client calls
• Assist in budgeting and managing cost trackers
• Supporting AEs/JAEs in smooth running of accounts, ensuring call readiness, overseeing updates to status reports and developing and managing effective account team administrative procedures
• Manage small projects from start to end (with senior support), including effective time and project management, factoring in senior review, editorial and design
• Play an active role in media scanning and take responsibility for ensuring that clients receive relevant daily coverage in a timely fashion and actively triage and respond to any urgent flags/issues arising
  
  

What are we looking for?

• Previous experience in consumer health/wellbeing at a consumer or healthcare communications agency
• Understanding of consumer healthcare media and social media platforms and expertise in developing content for these channels
• Excellent organisation and administration skills and ability to coordinate workload effectively working to deadlines as an individual, and supporting the team deliver projects in a timely manner to clients
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Systematic and logical approach to planning
• Computer literate with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Have a good knowledge of the consumer health industry and client environment
  
  
  

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Hybrid working, 2 days/week in the office
• 6 weeks annual leave
• 2 volunteering days
• Monthly well-being allowance
• A fantastic office space in Shoreditch with a dog friendly policy
• Clear career progression and leading training programmes developed by our L&D Director
  
  
  

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