Account Manager

Portland Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private healthcare

Life assurance

Gym membership

Wellbeing workshops

Company parties

Birthday day off

Lunch contribution

Job summary

Portland is seeking an experienced Account Manager to work across healthcare and life sciences PR, public affairs and policy accounts in the UK, with a focus on the London market. You will drive stakeholder engagement, shape policy and media conversations, and deliver high-impact results for multiple clients.

The role involves drafting policy materials, coordinating events and media campaigns, and supporting new business proposals, with hybrid in-office and remote collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience in healthcare and life sciences in the UK, ideally within an agency.
• Delivery of public affairs/communications campaigns.
• Analytical and able to process complex intelligence rapidly.
• Knowledge of the UK healthcare media landscape and ABPI code.
• Excellent project management and organisational skills.

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 policy roundtables and parliamentary events; 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.

Skills

Account management

Public affairs

Policy monitoring

Project management

Job description

## Account ManagerApply: Hybrid: London, London, United Kingdom: Full time: Posted Today: R14574**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.