Account Manager

Portland; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Pension contributions

Wellbeing workshops

Job summary

Portland in London is seeking an experienced Account Manager to work across healthcare and life sciences communications, public affairs and policy accounts in the UK. You will drive stakeholder engagement, shape policy narratives and manage senior level client relationships to deliver measurable outcomes.

You’ll lead multi-client campaigns, oversee media monitoring, develop proactive media and digital engagement strategies, and mentor junior colleagues within a fast-paced team.

Qualifications

• Experience in delivering public affairs/communications campaigns.
• Analytical ability to process complex information and monitor media/policy outcomes.
• Strong understanding of the UK healthcare media and policy landscape.

Responsibilities

• Draft policy materials, narratives, press releases and editorials.
• Oversee multiple projects and manage multiple clients.
• Coordinate media, political and policy monitoring and horizon scanning.
• Organise policy roundtables and parliamentary events and run media campaigns.
• Devise proactive and reactive media and digital engagement strategies.
• Support new business proposals and pitches.
• Ensure day-to-day delivery of strategies and plans.
• Mentor junior team members and use AI tools to enhance campaigns.

Skills

Account management

Healthcare & life sciences

Public affairs

Media monitoring

Policy engagement

Project management

UK politics

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Job Description

Account Manager – Healthcare and Life Sciences

Agency

Portland

Job Function

Communications and PR

Job Subfunction

Public Relations

Job Description

Account Manager – Healthcare and Life Sciences

Portland is a global advisory firm, helping companies, foundations, governments and organisations communicate effectively, grow and succeed. We advise clients navigating business and reputational challenges, including regulatory change, political transition, and legal disputes and crises, ensuring they seize opportunities to engage in policy discussions and in the media when it matters most.

Headquartered in London, with a network of team members in critical markets, our advisors are drawn from the worlds of politics, business, law and journalism. Our work is supported by specialist digital, research and creative teams, and backed by Omnicom’s global network and capabilities. Combining political nous and cultural savvy, Portland’s advisers build strategies and campaigns tailored to clients’ needs, delivering outcomes that make a difference.

The Team

Our Healthcare and Life Sciences team is a group of trusted advisors to the world’s most influential healthcare and scientific organisations, helping them navigate the fast-evolving policy, political and media landscape.

The Role

We’re seeking an experienced Account Manager to work across our portfolio of integrated healthcare communications, public affairs and policy accounts, particularly focussed on the UK. You’ll drive stakeholder engagement, shape policy and media conversations, build corporate reputation amongst high-level policy makers and deliver impactful results.

If you’re ready to take your career to the next level and work on high-level, strategic engagement programmes and campaigns that matter, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Drafting a range of materials including policy briefings, narratives, press releases, opinion editorials, digital content, outreach letters, political engagement strategies, consultation responses, stakeholder maps, media lists, and analysis
• Overseeing the delivery of multiple projects and account management for multiple clients
• Coordinating, managing and undertaking media, political and policy monitoring and horizon scanning
• Organising and coordinating set-piece events (i.e. policy roundtables and parliamentary events) and running media and digital campaigns
• Helping to devise and deliver proactive and reactive media and digital engagement strategies
• Supporting new business proposals and pitches
• Ensuring the successful day-to-day delivery of strategies and tactical plans
• Supporting the growth and development of junior team members
• Effective utilisation of AI tools to deliver effective communications and policy programmes

What We’re Looking For

• Previous account management experience working in healthcare and life sciences in the UK, ideally within an agency, or otherwise in-house
• Ability to demonstrate experience in the delivery of public affairs/communications campaigns
• Analytical and able to process complex intelligence rapidly, oversee media/policy/political insights and monitoring
• Exhibit knowledge of, and interest in, the UK healthcare media and policy landscape, with strong understanding of current affairs and the UK political landscape
• Knowledge and understanding of the ABPI code
• Excellent project management and organisational skills

What We Offer

At Portland we offer hybrid working, with our teams working together from the office three days a week. We are committed to development and have an open doors culture where you will have the opportunity to learn from some of the most experienced people in the business.

Our remuneration package also includes our competitive pension contributions, private healthcare or health cash plan, life assurance cover, company contribution to gym membership, wellbeing workshops and activities, company parties, birthday day off, lunch contribution each week and more!

Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in-office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in-office attendance.

Omnicom is committed to hiring and developing exceptional talent. We agree that talent is uniquely distributed, and we’re focused on developing inclusive teams that can bring the best solutions to everything we do. We strongly believe that celebrating what makes us different makes us better together. Join us—we look forward to getting to know you. We will process your personal data in accordance with our Recruitment Privacy Notice.

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