Account Executive | Corporate Communications | London
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Account Executive | Corporate Communications | London
Join to apply for the Account Executive | Corporate Communications | London role at Hanover Communications
About Us
Hanover is an award-winning communications consultancy that advises enterprises, institutions, and individuals on building recognition and enhancing reputation.
About Us
Hanover is an award-winning communications consultancy that advises enterprises, institutions, and individuals on building recognition and enhancing reputation.
From our offices across Europe and the Middle East, we adopt an integrated approach that connects the dots across channels, audiences and issues.
Our collective of smart, curious people think differently and live by a shared mission, purpose, vision, and values. These shape how we work, not just with our colleagues, but with clients and partners too.
Our mission is to ‘rewire communications for impact’ and harness its transformative power to advocate, trailblaze and make a difference.
We do this by igniting and empowering the potential of every individual within our company, recognising that each person is a unique spark, capable of creating extraordinary impact. We believe that by nurturing and harnessing the collective brilliance of our people, we can drive innovation, foster an uncommon work culture, and make a positive difference to society.
Embracing the complete range of skills and services across the communications spectrum without constraint, we create the best outcomes for our clients and deliver world-class work.
Hanover is looking for an ambitious Account Executive to join our growing Corporate team to help build brands and protect reputations for our clients in the UK and beyond. Our team currently provides counsel and support to a wide range of household names – from major energy firms to food and drink brands, from HNWIs to ambitious government projects across the world.
Primary Responsibilities
* Conduct value-add research and produce draft intelligence reports for clients and sector specific new business meetings
* Draft high-quality media materials, and directly liaise with journalists
* Use knowledge of the UK media landscape to build valuable relationships with journalists on behalf of our clients
* Provide timely and relevant media monitoring to existing clients, keeping up-to-date press cutting files and compiling press cuttings booklets
* Successfully sell in news stories to print and broadcast journalists, as well as digital channels
* Collaborate with teams across specialisations in the various Hanover offices to help run integrated communications campaigns for our clients
* Draft client meeting agendas and effective action notes from internal account meetings and new business meetings, together with efficient maintenance of new business databases
* Organise logistics (e.g. room bookings, invitations, speaker briefing notes and catering) for events including press conferences, media and stakeholder events
* Draft presentation materials for new business credentials and pitches, contributing towards new business pitches
* Contribute towards marketing activity to promote Hanover, and our Corporate and International Affairs offering
* Promote and demonstrate the Hanover Values across the full range of the role
* Contribute to opportunities for continuous improvement in all areas of role delivery and the wider team processes and practices
* Demonstrate an enthusiastic and proactive attitude to assessing requirements, completing tasks and delivering results for clients and for Hanover
* Develop understanding of company budget setting, management processes and Hanover financial and marketing systems including Maconomy and Salesforce
Required
* Excellent written and verbal communications skills, and ability to communicate confidently with staff, clients and third-party stakeholders
* Attention to detail, and ability to develop high-quality work to tight deadlines
* Effective time management and strong organisational skills
* Experience of working collaboratively as part of an intercultural team
* Interest in geopolitics
* Demonstrable experience in providing solutions / being proactive in improving the day-to-day
* Experience in a communications role within an agency, corporation, government or NGO environment
* Experience with traditional and social media monitoring tools
Benefits
In addition to a competitive salary, your core benefits package will include:
* An annual performance-related bonus plus additional bonus potential linked to recruitment, new business and long service
* 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays)
* Private healthcare insurance
* A company pension plan, including 5% employer contribution
You’ll also have access to a wide range of opportunities and initiatives, including:
* Flexible working policies, plus eligibility to apply for a sabbatical after 2 years’ service
* The Hanover Academy, which incorporates training, coaching, mentoring and reverse-mentoring opportunities to support personal development and career progression across all levels, with a generous training budget
* International secondments as well as the opportunity to collaborate with all offices across the AVENIR GLOBAL’s network
* A wellbeing programme, featuring (but not limited to) pre- and post-maternity leave coaching, a working parents’ group, subsidised gym membership, LiveSmart sessions on mindfulness, sleep, etc.
* Our Culture Club, with a robust social calendar all year round, Trailblazer of the Month award, Lunch & Learns, CSR activity, and an opportunity to win an Out of Office activity fund
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement +
Hanover Communications is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating and ensuring a fair, inclusive, and diverse work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that equality and diversity are essential to high performance and a thriving culture.
We maintain a strict no-tolerance stance against any form of discrimination and harassment, ensuring all individuals are treated equitably, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital or pregnancy status, genetic background, or any other attribute safeguarded under our company policies or federal, state or local laws and legislation.
We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email to recruitment@hanovercomms.com with the nature of your request.
We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use your data, including ensuring we comply with legal obligations relating to data protection. You can view our data privacy policy here.
Hanover is part of AVENIR GLOBAL’s powerhouse of specialist communications consultancies across EMEA and North America. Collectively we rank among the top 15 largest communication firms in the world.
Find out more about Hanover and working for us.
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