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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.\nHeadquartered 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.\nThe Team:\nOur 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.\nThe Role:\nWe'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.\nIf 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.\nKey Responsibilities:\nDrafting 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\nOverseeing the delivery of multiple projects and account management for multiple clients \nCoordinating, managing and undertaking media, political and policy monitoring and horizon scanning\nOrganising and coordinating set-piece events (i.e. policy roundtables and parliamentary events) and running media and digital campaigns\nHelping to devise and deliver proactive and reactive media and digital engagement strategies\nSupporting new business proposals and pitches\nEnsuring the successful day-to-day delivery of strategies and tactical plans\nSupporting the growth and development of junior team members \nEffective utilisation of AI tools to deliver effective communications and policy programmes\nWhat we’re looking for:\nPrevious account management experience working in healthcare and life sciences in the UK, ideally within an agency, or otherwise in-house\nAbility to demonstrate experience in the delivery of public affairs/communications campaigns \nAnalytical and able to process complex intelligence rapidly, oversee media/policy/political insights and monitoring\nExhibit knowledge of, and interest in, the UK healthcare media and policy landscape, with strong understanding of current affairs and the UK political landscape\nKnowledge and understanding of the ABPI code \nExcellent project management and organisational skills \nWhat we offer:\nAt 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.\nOur 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!\n\nOmnicom’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.\nOmnicom 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. 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