Account Director

Medicom Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agency in brand promotion is seeking an experienced professional to lead client accounts and manage project delivery in the pharmaceutical sector. This role involves strategic input and the ability to foster client relationships while ensuring projects run smoothly and meet quality standards. Ideal candidates will have proven experience in account handling within a communications agency and strong leadership skills.

Benefits

Equal opportunities employer

Qualifications

• Proven experience in client account handling from a comms agency background.
• Focus on the pharmaceutical sector.

Responsibilities

• Provide clear project leadership to all team members.
• Lead client relationships and guide the wider team.
• Ensure projects meet budget and quality standards.

Skills

Client account handling

Project management

Strategic input

Leadership

Job description

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As an agency group specialising in brand promotion, disease awareness, PR, events, social media, digital engagement, and medical communication, we are undergoing a significant transformation.

We aim to be recognised internationally for our award-winning ideas. Our success will be pivotal in enhancing the reputation and growth of the Havas Health network. We will be vibrant collaborators, uniting multiple disciplines and agency offerings for the benefit of our clients and the creative platforms we develop for them. We expect more from ourselves and those who are successful in joining our high-performance team.

Adjusting our perspective, behaviours, and capabilities to foster a creative culture will be a challenging and exciting journey. For the right person, this will be a career-defining period. Your role in our business transformation will likely determine how far your star will rise.

We have an opportunity to be the shining light in the HAVAS life network. We will demonstrate how an agency can be highly successful across multiple disciplines while helping each other and our network partners grow through our powerful creative culture. You will be key to driving this. It will take a combination of your capability, charm, guile, energy, and intellect.

You are passionate about health and creativity. This is your calling.

The role

You will provide clear project leadership to all members of your team; ensuring all assigned projects and accounts are completed according to time and budgetary requirements and are in line with our quality standards.

Lead client relationships; guide and direct the wider team and provide key strategic input. This will be demonstrated by a proactive awareness and understanding of new developments in the relevant therapy areas and the healthcare industry in general, and how these developments may affect or feed into the overarching client strategy.

Working closely with other members of the client services team in partnership with Medical Writers and the Creative team, you will work on a variety of projects across a range of therapy areas to ensure successful and timely planning, development, and implementation of project deliverables to the highest quality standards.

Core Duties & Responsibilities:

• Take full ownership of the projects for each client, ranging from strategic input to the day-to-day management duties.
• Monitor forecasts and plans in partnership with the wider client services team to ensure business objectives are met, on time, to standard, and within the client's budget.
• Communicate with the operations and finance team to ensure that they are kept up to date with all of the required client information.
• Develop a thorough understanding of the client’s objectives, product strategy, and relevant therapeutic areas.
• Manage and influence client contacts and maintain positive working relationships.
• Take an active role in promoting the business's offering to all clients to identify new business opportunities.
• Discuss issues with the senior leadership team regarding key accounts and the account team.
• Encourage all account team members to take ownership of their business and levels of responsibility.
• Contribute towards discussions about overall company strategy.
• Ensure effective communication when supporting cross-company working on integrated accounts.
• Provide effective line management responsibility for Account Managers and Senior Account Executives.

You will bring:

• Proven experience in client account handling from a comms agency background with a focus on the pharmaceutical sector.
• Experience of line management and leading a team.

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Contract Type : Permanent

Description:
As an agency group specialising in brand promotion, disease awareness, PR, events, social media, digital engagement, and medical communication, we are undergoing a significant transformation.

We aim to be recognised internationally for our award-winning ideas. Our success will be pivotal in enhancing the reputation and growth of the Havas Health network. We will be vibrant collaborators, uniting multiple disciplines and agency offerings for the benefit of our clients and the creative platforms we develop for them. We expect more from ourselves and those who are successful in joining our high-performance team.

Adjusting our perspective, behaviours, and capabilities to foster a creative culture will be a challenging and exciting journey. For the right person, this will be a career-defining period. Your role in our business transformation will likely determine how far your star will rise.

We have an opportunity to be the shining light in the HAVAS life network. We will demonstrate how an agency can be highly successful across multiple disciplines while helping each other and our network partners grow through our powerful creative culture. You will be key to driving this. It will take a combination of your capability, charm, guile, energy, and intellect.

You are passionate about health and creativity. This is your calling.

The role

You will provide clear project leadership to all members of your team; ensuring all assigned projects and accounts are completed according to time and budgetary requirements and are in line with our quality standards.

Lead client relationships; guide and direct the wider team and provide key strategic input. This will be demonstrated by a proactive awareness and understanding of new developments in the relevant therapy areas and the healthcare industry in general, and how these developments may affect or feed into the overarching client strategy.

Working closely with other members of the client services team in partnership with Medical Writers and the Creative team, you will work on a variety of projects across a range of therapy areas to ensure successful and timely planning, development, and implementation of project deliverables to the highest quality standards.

Core Duties & Responsibilities:

Take full ownership of the projects for each client, ranging from strategic input to the day-to-day management duties.

Monitor forecasts and plans in partnership with the wider client services team to ensure business objectives are met, on time, to standard, and within the client's budget.

Communicate with the operations and finance team to ensure that they are kept up to date with all of the required client information.

Develop a thorough understanding of the client’s objectives, product strategy, and relevant therapeutic areas.

Manage and influence client contacts and maintain positive working relationships.

Take an active role in promoting the business's offering to all clients to identify new business opportunities.

Discuss issues with the senior leadership team regarding key accounts and the account team.

Encourage all account team members to take ownership of their business and levels of responsibility.

Contribute towards discussions about overall company strategy.

Ensure effective communication when supporting cross-company working on integrated accounts.

Provide effective line management responsibility for Account Managers and Senior Account Executives.

You will bring:

Proven experience in client account handling from a comms agency background with a focus on the pharmaceutical sector.

Experience of line management and leading a team.

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Contract Type : Permanent

Here at Havas across the group we pride ourselves on being committed to offering equal opportunities to all potential employees and have zero tolerance for discrimination. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants irrespective of age, sex, race, ethnicity, disability and other factors that have no bearing on an individual’s ability to perform their job.