Account Director | Healthcare

Overview

Cavendish is all about talented people, delivering excellent results for our clients. We are a multi-award-winning, PR Week Top 150 agency, Top 25 in Healthcare and recognised at the PRCA National Awards 2025 as Large Consultancy of the Year.

Location:

Central London
Employment:
Permanent/Full time

Hours:

Full time 37.5 hours

Within Healthcare we work with a large number of UK and International clients across the pharmaceutical, life sciences and consumer health sectors. We are members of the HCA and the PAGB.

We believe in sourcing talent from diverse backgrounds, nurturing a company culture that leads to a strong work life balance, and strengthening it by providing great learning and development opportunities.

You’ll have the opportunity to take your career to the next level, working with dynamic, talented people in a fast paced and expanding organisation. Alongside a competitive salary, we provide extensive training and development opportunities and an industry leading benefits package including:

• A flexible, hybrid working model
• Access to mentorship from some of the best minds in the industry
• Industry leading allocation of paid time off
• Private Medical Insurance
• Regular social and teambuilding events
• Paid time off to volunteer for a charity

You will have experience working in a PR and communications role within an agency, with client experience in healthcare and/or the pharmaceutical sector. We’re looking for someone who works within a high performing team in a commercial environment.

• PR experience, with some gained in agency.
• Maintaining and growing a valuable portfolio of key clients across the healthcare sector.
• Demonstrate drive, commitment, and a focus to producing work of the highest standard.
• Exceptional workload management and a good team player.
• Excellent analytical and writing skills.
• The ability to think strategically and develop new business proposals, tender responses and client strategies and engagement plans.
• Strong inter-personal skills and the ability to work across client and internal teams to develop strong and lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.
• A knowledge of the ABPI guidelines is useful but not essential.

A lead relationship holder across a portfolio of clients, responsible for the delivery of exceptional PR, communications, and engagement services across healthcare, pharmaceuticals and scientific sectors. You are accountable for the effective and profitable delivery of projects for clients, which will be a mix of corporate, patient focussed, HCP and consumer work.

Your specific duties will include:

• Leading a number of accounts across Healthcare, both in the UK and internationally.
• Supporting and leading the delivery of current client work including media relations, stakeholder communications, patient advocacy work and content development.
• Playing a significant role in completing tenders, presentations and client pitches.
• Supporting with new business growth across the Healthcare sector.
• Working with the Directors to analyse the market, develop new offerings and products/services.
• Working in a flexible way to provide support in line with client and new business demands.

Our vision is to be a truly diverse and inclusive workplace that enables us to attract and retain a diverse workforce, representative of our clients and community. For this reason, we welcome applications from candidates regardless of qualifications and experience in industry and from all persons, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, or age.

Everyone stands to benefit when we embrace and value the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and ways of working that people from different backgrounds, experiences and identities bring to an organisation.

We are a disability confident employer. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the application and interview stages, please email peopl