Graduate Advertising Account Executive - Healthcare

The Company:

This company create advertising campaigns for pharmaceutical companies which are aimed at healthcare professionals. This could be through producing brochures, marketing materials, apps, or websites to ensure the best success for their client.

What Is Medical Communications?

Medical communications agencies provide consultancy services to the pharmaceutical industry to help raise awareness of medicines via education and promotion. Essentially, advising pharma companies on how best to educate and inform their customers about the benefits and risks of new and existing therapies.

Graduate Advertising Account Executive - Healthcare - £25K

Based in Berkshire, this growing company are a creative healthcare advertising agency, looking to hire two commercially-minded graduates with a passion for life science into an exciting and varied account executive role.

This is an exciting opportunity to begin a career in a position which blends healthcare with marketing and advertising. You will gain exposure to working on international campaigns for a variety of pharmaceutical clients; delivering on a very wide range of projects. You will be mentored by senior members of the team and will have many opportunities long term for promotion as you develop. Your role will be heavily involved in client management and understanding their brief, all the way through to project managing and liaising with core internal teams such as the copy writing and creative teams to deliver the campaign on time and to budget. There will be lots of opportunity to meet clients and help shape campaigns that truly make an impact in healthcare!

No experience is required, however a strong interest in healthcare advertising and medical communications is needed.

Your responsibilities as a graduate advertising account executive

• Understanding a client's strategic needs
• Delivering on projects to an outstanding standard
• Compiling a brief and liaising with the creation and copywriting teams to ensure it is met
• Managing projects and acting as the face of the agency for your client
• Ensuring that projects are on brief and in budget

What Do You Need?

• 2:1 or above or equivalent in a life science or chemistry degree
• Commercially minded graduate with a passion for getting product to market
• Strong writing capabilities
• Experience working with a pharmaceutical business is ideal but not essential
• An interest in pharmaceutical advertising
• Outstanding verbal communication skills