Account Executive, Health Media

New York City, NY (On-site)

$50K/yr – $74K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own healthcare media relations with a bias for sourcing timely disease awareness stories, packaging clear pitches, and building journalist relationships that move coverage and client narratives forward.

  • Media Relations: Build and maintain journalist relationships across health, consumer, trade, policy, and local outlets to place stories.
  • Proactive Outreach: Identify storytelling opportunities, craft pitches, and maintain media lists and briefing materials.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Support the day-to-day execution of integrated earned media programs across product communications, corporate reputation, disease awareness, and patient engagement initiatives
  • Develop high-quality communications materials, including media pitches, media lists, messaging documents, briefing materials, and client-ready reports
  • Build and maintain relationships with health, consumer, trade, policy and local journalists, placing stories and coordinating interviews that drive meaningful earned coverage
  • Identifying additional timely storytelling opportunities
  • Support the management of inbound media inquiries
  • Monitor, analyze, and report on industry news and the competitive landscape, translating insights into actionable recommendations for clients and internal team
  • Identify emerging healthcare, consumer, and media trends to inform proactive media opportunities and support strategic recommendations

Requirements

  • 2+ years of experience in healthcare or pharmaceutical public relations at an agency or in-house communications team, with experience supporting media relations and earned media programs
  • Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
  • Experience building media lists, researching journalists, and executing proactive media outreach across consumer, health, trade, policy, and local media
  • Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and consistently deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment
  • Passion for building strong relationships with colleagues, clients, media, and external partners while contributing to a collaborative team culture
  • Experience supporting pharmaceutical communications and familiarity with the FDA approval process is a plus
  • Interest in consumer health communications, disease awareness campaigns, corporate reputation, and patient-focused storytelling

Benefits

  • medical coverage
  • dental
  • vision
  • disability
  • 401K
  • parential and family care leave
  • family forming assistance
  • tuition reimbursement
  • flexible time off
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