Golin Ketchum London
Junior Account Executive - Consumer Health
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Junior Account Executive | Consumer Health Team
Do you:
- Have a passion for working in consumer health and wellbeing?
- Get excited pitching to media and building relationships with journalists?
- Want to be part of an award-winning team, working on campaigns for brands like Specsavers, ASICS and BetterHelp?
Then you might just be the Junior Account Executive we are looking for!
Golin Ketchum is recruiting an ambitious Junior Account Executive to join our Consumer Health team. From using humour and entertainment to challenge stigma around hearing loss, to developing a PE kit to empower girls to stay active, to partnering with a global superstar to encourage people to access mental health therapy—our work is bold, creative, culturally relevant, and, most importantly, meaningful.
About the Role
We are looking for someone who ideally already has some experience working in PR and wants to build their career specifically in consumer health and wellness. We’re seeking a trusted team player who can be relied upon across your accounts and the wider consumer health team. You will play an active role in team meetings and on client calls, support managing client requests, and be solutions-focused.
You’ll support the team in:
- Crafting compelling media pitches
- Securing coverage
- Keeping both colleagues and clients informed on PR developments, competitor activity, and wider industry trends
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Proactively manage client requests, fielding queries to the team as needed
- Attend client and team meetings, taking detailed notes to circulate to attendees and updating progress on areas you’re working on
- Take the lead on media monitoring, identifying relevant coverage for clients and flagging what deserves attention
- Deliver work on deadlines, flagging issues and finding solutions with your team when necessary
- Help troubleshoot and offer constructive feedback
- Maintain a visible presence in the team, with strong communication both virtually and in-person
- Be an active member of the consumer health team, sharing social trends, media stories, and brand campaigns with the wider group
- Prioritise your workload and proactively communicate any concerns about meeting deadlines
- Assist with managing account finances
- Support financial processes including:
- PO raising
- Supplier setup
- Chasing invoices
- Running supplier cost trackers
- Complete daily timesheets and understand how your time impacts the business and budgets
- Source and maintain relationships with vendors and third-party suppliers
- Carry out research for new business proposals and pitches
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What We Are Looking For
- A trusted, proactive team player with a visible presence and a positive attitude
- Passionate about PR, consumer health, and wellness—someone who wants to create campaigns that positively impact people’s health and wellbeing and stay relevant with cultural trends
- A passion for media relations, with an eagerness to evolve your understanding of the media landscape and develop your pitching skills and ability to sell in stories
- Strong writing skills, ideally with experience crafting materials such as:
- Media pitches
- Briefing documents (aligned with brand messaging)
- A keen eye for detail, ensuring work is of the highest quality
- Problem-solving ability, with a proactive approach to finding solutions
- Ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously in a fast-paced environment, working under pressure with professionalism
- Curious and resourceful, proactively seeks feedback and looks for opportunities to learn and grow
- A team member who contributes to an inclusive culture and role-models inclusive behaviours
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About Golin Ketchum
Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create meaningful change for our clients and colleagues—the kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business.
Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creativity and strategic brilliance, propelled by Omnicom’s industry-leading data and AI solutions to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies.
At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind, collaborating obsessively with the best clients and best people in the industry.
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