Senior Account Manager/Account Director

Ashfield Healthcare ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Job Description

Senior Account Manager/Account Director Incisive Health London We are an award-winning healthcare policy and communications consultancy. We deliver the results that matter for our clients and for the patients they serve. As specialists in health, we understand the detail but can see the big picture. We know how to change minds, mobilise advocates and deliver results. In addition to the responsibilities set out below, we expect that individuals will be prepared to take on additional tasks at the request of client leads or the management team. Political and policy intelligence * Keeping abreast of major policy and political developments * Ensuring internal and client teams receive rapid alerts to monitoring items of interest, including making recommendations for client activity arising * Providing high quality advice to clients on the implications of policy or political developments for their strategy and programmes of activity Client service * Ensuring that work delivered by you, or by teams for which you are responsible, is delivered to a high degree of accuracy (both in terms of substance, and in terms of spelling and grammar) * Leading client accounts as designated by the Incisive Health management team, including leading the development of the strategy underpinning client programmes * Working constructively with account teams to ensure smooth delivery of client programmes, either leading the account or working under the direction of the client team lead * Ensuring accounts where the Account Director is the team lead are delivered to the expectations and satisfaction both of the client and of the Incisive Health management team * Identifying areas for expansion and enhanced delivery of client programmes New business * Prospecting actively for, and securing, new business * Developing strategies and materials for new business pitches and proposals * Drafting new business materials and participating in pitches, as appropriate * Networking in policy and political fields to develop contacts, capture business intelligence and actively prospect for new business opportunities Marketing * Playing an active role in the development of marketing events and/or materials (for example, publications, client gifts, branded goods) * Ensuring the business maintains an active social media presence through twitter and blogging Personnel * Nurturing the development of all members of the junior team, actively supporting them to develop as consultants and to progress * Line managing members of the team, at the designation of the management team