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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.
Hanover is looking for an Account Executive to join the Healthcare Policy, Advocacy & Public Affairs team.
The Account Executive will provide high-quality monitoring and research services to our existing clients, together with research and administrative support on new business activities.
They will also be responsible for supporting Parliamentary and marketing events and providing administrative support for meetings with clients and other stakeholders.
The Healthcare Policy, Advocacy & Public Affairs team work with the most exciting healthcare and life sciences organisations, responsible for some of the most important breakthroughs in medical science.
At Hanover Health we are united in our common belief that good healthcare is one of the most important things we can have. And we want to play an active role in evolving and improving it. Hanover Health has been an integral part of the Hanover Group’s overall growth and was a triple award recipient in 2019, with wins at the PRWeek Awards, SABRE EMEA Awards and PharmaTimes Awards. The practice has also been recently nominated for PRWeek 2020 Specialist Consultancy of the Year.
The team works across a range of services including government relations, public affairs, market access, policy, advocacy and corporate communications across health and business. With over half of the world’s top 20 pharmaceutical companies, as well as NHS providers, health technology businesses and charities amongst our clients, we offer a diverse and compelling range of issues and opportunities.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitor Public Policy audiences and Parliamentary business to compile up-to-date records of issues relevant to clients
- Organise logistics for Parliamentary and other stakeholder events
- Conduct value-add research and produce high quality draft intelligence reports for existing clients and to support tenders, pitches and new business meetings
- Draft client meeting agendas and effective action notes from internal account meetings and new business meetings
- Maintain relevant records of target stakeholder and audience groups relevant to your clients and sectors
- Draft presentation materials for new business credentials and pitches, contributing towards new business pitches
- Support the wider team in helping to embed new interns and account executives, making them feel welcome and supporting their smooth transition into the team
- Any other activity as determined by account leads to support the wider account team
REQUIREMENTS:
- Prior experience within an internship or other relevant position either in a UK public affairs consultancy, in-house public affairs department, patient group/NGO, Parliament or other relevant organisation
- A passion for the changing health landscape, specifically within UK politics and policy
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Drive to make an impact and work closely as a team
- Ability to work across multiple projects at any one time
- Awareness of what makes for high quality client service
- Strong attention to detail and highly organised
- Ability to meet deadlines and manage own time effectively
BENEFITS:
In addition to a competitive salary, your core benefits package will include:
- An annual performance-related bonus plus additional bonus potential linked to recruitment, new business and long service
- 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays)
- Private healthcare insurance
- A company pension plan, including 5% employer contribution
You’ll also have access to a wide range of opportunities and initiatives, including:
- Flexible working policies, plus eligibility to apply for a sabbatical after 2 years’ service
- Summer Fridays finish (3pm) – early Friday finish the rest of the year (4pm)
- The Hanover Academy, which incorporates training, coaching, mentoring and reverse-mentoring opportunities to support personal development and career progression across all levels, with a generous training budget
- International secondments as well as the opportunity to collaborate with all offices across the AVENIR GLOBAL’s network
- A wellbeing programme, featuring (but not limited to) pre- and post-maternity leave coaching, a working parents’ group, subsidised gym membership, LiveSmart sessions on mindfulness, sleep, etc.
- Our Culture Club, with a robust social calendar all year round, Trailblazer of the Month award, Lunch & Learns, CSR activity, and an opportunity to win an Out of Office activity fund
Hanover is an equal opportunities employer, committed to encouraging a balanced workforce within our company and the wider industry.
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Hanover Communications is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating and ensuring a fair, inclusive, and diverse work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that equality and diversity are essential to high performance and a thriving culture.
We maintain a strict no-tolerance stance against any form of discrimination and harassment, ensuring all individuals are treated equitably, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital or pregnancy status, genetic background, or any other attribute safeguarded under our company policies or federal, state or local laws and legislation.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email to recruitment@hanovercomms.com with the nature of your request.
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Hanover is part of AVENIR GLOBAL’s powerhouse of specialist communications consultancies across EMEA and North America. Collectively we rank among the top 15 largest communication firms in the world.
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