Account Executive, Health Digital

Edelman has an opportunity for an Account Executive to join our talented and award-winning health digital team. The health digital team is a fast-paced, hybrid team of practitioners that spans everything from digital and social strategy to execution. The successful candidate will be a passionate digital strategist with hands-on digital marketing and communications experience. You are part strategist, part practitioner (‘a do-er’). You can provide insightful strategic recommendations to our clients based on your knowledge of what it takes to execute at the highest level in health communications.
Edelman is a new kind of agency, at the intersection of PR, Advertising, Social, Digital, and Experiential. We blur the lines between each medium to create smart, innovative, and powerful work that gets people talking and engaging with brands in new ways. We’re passionate, unconventional, and driven by a desire to do the best work possible. We get results for our clients. We also laugh a lot. Every day. And we’d love for you to join us.

Responsibilities:

• Support the team in creation of digital communications plans and goals; manage against them
• Support the daily client contact and client lead when appropriate; address client issues thoughtfully and effectively
• Monitor social conversation around clients' products and provide response recommendations
• Consistently produce high quality internal and external communications content
• Build relationships with internal specialists (paid media, content, creative, planning, analytics etc.) and senior stakeholders to meet client needs
• Demonstrate tactical proficiency in digital/social advertising, including participating in the development of plans and working with creative and paid media specialists to execute and optimize campaigns
• Commit to continuous learning and improvement of skills; set and pursue stretch goals

Basic Qualifications:

• At least one year of relevant experience in public relations and/or related fields including research, advertising, management consulting, media and publishing.
• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Proactive attitude with commitment to continuous learning through various training and new project opportunities.
• Ability to work on multiple projects/clients at once, often in different industries with different digital needs

Preferred Qualifications:

• A solid grasp of all basic public relations tools and how they are used as well as solid research, writing and editing skills.
• They should have the ability to develop social content as well as build relationships with media and apply experience and initiative in developing traditional and digital media relations strategies.
• Passion for and curiosity in healthcare
• Build relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels and across teams
• Willingness to collaborate across internal, external, and client-side resources
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).
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