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About the Role
The Senior Account Executive (SAE) will join Edelman's Health Brands team in London, focusing on integrated healthcare communications, policy, and public affairs. This role involves managing client accounts, supporting the development and execution of integrated programs to navigate the healthcare landscape, engage stakeholders, and shape health issue conversations. It's ideal for individuals passionate about healthcare policy, strategic communications, and impactful campaigns.
Responsibilities
- Manage day-to-day client activities and account workstreams, ensuring high-quality delivery, proactive communication, and timely responses.
- Support the planning, development, and execution of integrated healthcare programmes, integrating policy, public affairs, media relations, stakeholder engagement, and creative communications.
- Develop compelling narratives and high-quality written content for various formats, including messaging frameworks, policy and stakeholder briefings, media materials, social media content, and thought leadership.
- Support stakeholder mapping and engagement activities across the healthcare ecosystem.
- Monitor and analyse UK healthcare policy developments, political and regulatory changes, and industry trends to inform client recommendations and strategies.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across communications disciplines to deliver integrated campaigns.
- Coordinate project timelines, budgets, action trackers, and reporting for efficient account management.
- Support and mentor junior colleagues, providing constructive feedback.
- Contribute to creative brainstorms, strategic planning, new business proposals, and account growth opportunities.
Requirements
- Previous experience in healthcare communications, public relations, public affairs, or a related field, ideally within an agency, consultancy, or healthcare-focused organisation.
- A strong interest in the UK healthcare landscape, including health policy, the NHS, government priorities, and the political and regulatory environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to translate complex healthcare and policy topics into clear, engaging content.
- Experience supporting integrated communications and policy programmes, stakeholder engagement, media relations, public affairs, or healthcare-focused communications programmes.
- An understanding of how policy, stakeholder engagement, earned media, digital channels, and creative communications can work together.
- Strong organisational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced agency environment.
- A proactive, curious, and collaborative approach, combining analytical thinking, creativity, sound judgement, and attention to detail.
- An interest in the intersection of healthcare, policy, business, and society.
Skills
- Integrated healthcare communications
- Policy
- Public affairs
- Strategic communications
- Creative storytelling
- Impactful campaign delivery
- Stakeholder engagement
- Media relations
- Written content development
- Messaging frameworks
- Social media content creation
- Thought leadership
- Project management
- Analytical thinking
- Creativity
- Attention to detail
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Edelman is a voice synonymous with trust, reimagining a future where the currency of communication is action.
- Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum.
- We understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities.
- We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.
Equal Opportunity
- We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t perfectly align with every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.