Senior Account Director | Healthcare Public Affairs | London

Hanover is looking for a Senior Account Director to join the Healthcare Policy, Advocacy & Public Affairs team.

The Senior Account Director will provide strategic advice to Hanover’s existing clients and take the lead on client accounts, teams, and budgets.

They will also lead on new business activity including acquisition, development and pitching, and will play a vital role in the development of talent in the team by managing and mentoring junior team members.

The role will be based in London and offers the opportunity to work across clients we share with our offices in Brussels, Dublin and the Middle East, as well as integrated accounts with our Healthcare Communications teams.

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 shortlisted for Public Affairs Consultancy of the Year at the Communique Awards 2024. Hanover has also received award wins for its diversity and inclusion work picking up the trophy for Action on Workplace DEI at the Communique Awards 2024 and Best Team Approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the PRCA UK Awards 2024.

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:

• Manage client accounts and budgets, including the project management of account teams
• Build and execute breakthrough campaigns to deliver tangible policy change for our clients
• Run environment-changing events for a range of audiences including politicians, policy makers, health system stakeholders and patient groups
• Deliver important intelligence to our clients by utilising the Hanover network and building your own network through attending events as well as developing expertise in policy areas
• Draft reports with impact for clients on a varied number of topics including trade/business policy, disease or health system policy areas
• Support the management of expert steering groups to drive thought-leadership for our clients
• Personal management of junior members of the team providing guidance on professional development
• Take a lead on new business pitches, being a core part of the team in building creative strategies and tactics and pitching to clients
• Deliver marketing activity to support Hanover Health’s business growth

Requirements:

• Relevant experience from a public affairs consultancy, in-house public affairs department, patient group/NGO, Parliament, or other relevant organisation
• Excellent knowledge of health policy and ability to analyse developments within the life sciences sector
• Good conceptual understanding of the medicines access landscape in the UK, including knowledge of how MHRA, NICE and NHS England interact to deliver medicines to NHS patients
• Understanding of the levers that can impact the medicines access policy landscape for pharmaceutical companies as well as the various factors that can influence the uptake of medicines by health systems
• Ability to multi-task and manage competing deadlines, while maintaining the highest quality standards
• Eye for detail and ability to think critically about your own work and that of others
• Excellent project management, written and verbal communication skills
• Experience managing junior colleagues on their professional and personal development and providing advice and support for their work

Benefits:

• Annual performance-related bonus, with additional bonuses linked to recruitment, new business and long service
• Healthcare insurance and company pension scheme
• Flexible and hybrid working policies, with eligibility to apply for a sabbatical after 2 years’ service
• Summer Fridays – and early Friday finish all year round
• Employee Assistance Programme, including Hanover Healthy Minds forum with trained Mental Health First Aiders and mental health coaching
• Family-friendly policies, including full pay for 18 weeks during maternity/adoption leave, enhanced paternity and shared parental pay, parental coaching and clothing allowance for pregnant employees
• Support for employees who are going through menopause or fertility treatment, including paid time off and monthly contribution towards HRT prescriptions
• Subsidised gym membership and ‘LiveSmart’ wellbeing workshops
• IN Network, a global working group dedicated to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion - workstreams include gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, working parents and LGBTQ+
• Trailblazer of the Month award for outstanding contribution, Lunch & Learns and an opportunity to win an Out of Office activity fund
• Cycle to work scheme and interest-free loans