Account Director Corporate Communications London
Account Director Corporate Communications London
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About us
Hanover is an awardwinning 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 worldclass work.
Hanover is looking for a dynamic and experienced PR professional to join our Corporate team as an Account Director.
The successful candidate will be a senior member of our corporate communications practice and will provide strategic advice to Hanovers existing public relations clients. Day to day the Account Director will lead client accounts manage junior colleagues and budgets as well as making a significant contribution to new business and marketing activity.
Were particularly keen to hear from candidates with an interest or experience providing corporate support for large consumer facing brands issues and crisis management expertise and new business activity.
We believe very strongly in career development at Hanover offering tailored training to all our staff and regular opportunities for promotion. For the right candidate with talent and ambition there is the opportunity to go to the top.
The position will be based at our London office but the successful candidate may have the opportunity to work on clients we share with colleagues in our Brussels Dublin and Middle East offices.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Develop close client relationships lead external client meetings and be the first point of contact across client accounts
- Provide strategic advice to clients and prospective clients
- Oversee and lead media contact programmes attend and support meetings between clients and any media
- Develop high quality media contacts within key media targets
- Demonstrate an active and everexpanding new business network identify opportunities to crosssell services between Hanover teams and offices
- Project manage activities focused on new business development including marketing and managing pipelines
- Supervise the delivery of client work on multiple accounts by running internal account management meetings reviewing team progress against agreed milestones monitoring capacity and allocating tasks
- Line managing junior colleagues helping to mentor and develop talent from within the team
PERSON SPECIFICATION
- Expert knowledge and experience of working in UK media environments
- Prior experience within a consultancy or inhouse PR/communications team preferably with some corpsumer experience
- Strong experience in advising clients in crisis situations and managing potentially negative issues
- Good understanding of UK PR industry with strong media contacts (particularly on national titles and with broadcasters)
- Strong understanding and experience of budgeting managing pipelines and developing new business
- Experience in line management and developing talent
- Effective time management and ability to meet deadlines strong organisational skills
- Excellent verbal and creative writing skills
- Very strong teamworking collaboration and interpersonal skills
- Demonstration of strong client relationships industry contacts and new business growth
Benefits:
In addition to a competitive salary your core benefits package will include:
- An annual performancerelated 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
Youll 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
- Summer Fridays finish 3pm) early Friday finish the rest of the year 4pm)
- The Hanover Academy which incorporates training coaching mentoring and reversementoring 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 GLOBALs network
- A wellbeing programme featuring (but not limited to) pre and postmaternity 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 notolerance 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 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 policyhere.
Hanover is part of AVENIR GLOBALs 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.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
