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Account Executive – Healthcare PR, £28.5k – £32k (depending on experience)

London, England, United Kingdom

About us:

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.

When we choose to work in healthcare, we choose to work in an industry with people at its heart; we celebrate our differences and how we complement each other. But at Virgo, ‘Being Human’ is what unites us, and it’s fundamental to our culture. We show empathy and support for each other to grow our skills. embracing inclusive and flexible ways of working and rejecting outdated workplace culture. We have a brilliant team that works well together to deliver effective content and to celebrate our successes.

What is the role?

As an Account Executive (AE) you will play a key role in the smooth running of client accounts, with the main responsibilities including logistical and administrative support, as well as helping to develop content and running account processes. The AE role will allow you to demonstrate key skills and behaviours required to be a PR professional, consistently delivering high standards of work to deadlines, multitasking and prioritising to manage time effectively.

What will you be doing?

• Consistently develop proficient first drafts of basic communications materials, e.g., backgrounders, case studies, speaker information, emails to clients
• Confidently use tools such as Relevance Radar, Gorkana, Factiva and Brand Watch
• Build good rapport with clients, playing an active role in any team meetings or teleconferences you attend
• Ensure call readiness for updates and status meetings, booking rooms as needed, starting calls promptly with materials ready to be shared
• Set up, develop and manage effective account team administrative procedures, e.g. printing, binding, scanning, team action lists, etc.
• Proactively develop and update internal action lists, status reports and minutes, generating client friendly versions, as appropriate, to a good standard
• Develop strong Veeva (or similar) skills uploading client documents for review and tagging references, building experience with correct referencing format and software, where needed
• Play an active role in your peer group meetings and participate in wider company activity to build specialist knowledge and experience 

Skills/requirements:

• Degree or graduate calibre skills and qualifications
• Relevant work experience or internship in a healthcare communications agency 
• Ability to coordinate workload effectively, working to deadlines as an individual and supporting the team deliver projects in a timely manner to clients
• Understand how press materials are tailored to different types of media
• Have an understanding of the media landscape, target journalists and sell ins
• Proactive can multitask and prioritise
• Computer literate with MS Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Teams
• Excellent organisation and administration skills with systematic and logical approach to planning
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills
• Attention to detail
• Interest in healthcare 

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
• Industry-leading gender neutral family friendly policies
• Clear career progression and excellent training programmes developed by our L&D Director

+ many other perks!

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At IPG we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.