Manager, Account Executive in City of London

Location: Flexible remote working, with regular team collaboration days in London. Travel to client meetings, events, and exhibitions across the UK and abroad as required.

Working Pattern and Holiday: Full-time permanent role, with flexible working patterns considered for the right person. ASAP start strongly preferred — we have a major event in late September that this role would help bring home. 22 days annual leave, including bank/public holidays and your birthday off.

Barker PR is a specialist agency with a strong reputation in healthcare, dental and wellness communications. We create purposeful, engaging campaigns that deliver measurable results — from media coverage and stakeholder engagement to strategic brand positioning and live events. Our work spans PR, social, events, marketing campaigns, content and partnerships, always underpinned by curiosity, collaboration and creativity.

You'll work directly with one of our Brand Leads across a portfolio that includes a leading B2B software brand operating across multiple sectors (veterinary, pharmacy, primary care and a wider healthcare portfolio), a fast-growing dental tech brand, and additional B2B accounts across the healthcare and dental sector.

Responsibilities include:

• Taking account coordination off the senior team, running the weekly client rhythm yourself, drafting and distributing press releases at pace, briefing internal specialists (design, social, editorial) and ensuring nothing falls between the cracks.
• Delivering a flagship B2B industry event cleanly — owning the project plan end-to-end, managing registration flow and email sequences, briefing keynote speakers, coordinating the sector press release programme, and managing on-day logistics.
• Launching a flagship sector research report alongside the event — completing survey deployment and response chasing, managing partner coordination, and executing report production hand-off with our editorial and design teams.
• Maintaining a clean weekly rhythm across all accounts — ensuring status, measurement, coverage reports and team calls run without senior intervention.
• Owning end-to-end project plans for event delivery, with a major industry event scheduled for late September being the immediate priority.
• Managing registration flows, attendee guest list management, email sequences and post-event follow-up.
• Coordinating venue, suppliers, AV, branding, photography and videography for live events.
• Running the weekly and bi-weekly client call rhythm across your accounts.
• Investing in systems that make processes less manual and helping shape that.
• Managing high-profile keynote speakers and sector KOLs coordination logistics (briefings, scheduling, follow-up) on programmes the Brand Lead is steering strategically.
• Deploying surveys and chasing responses on data-led campaigns.
• Tracking time accurately against your accounts — we run a transparent capacity-and-fees model and time data drives our planning.
• Helping shape re-scopes when needed.
• Demonstrating event project management — having owned at least one live trade or industry event end-to-end.
• Writing tight releases, hitting the right trade contacts, chasing placement and writing up coverage without supervision.
• Confidently running an account day-to-day — having owned a client relationship at AM (or strong SAE) level.
• Exhibiting sharp written English and clear verbal communication.
• Being comfortable with multi-stakeholder client environments (working across multiple sector heads, MDs and central CEO/CMO simultaneously).
• Having a genuine interest in healthcare, dental, veterinary or wellness sectors is an advantage.
• Familiarity with tools such as Cision, Canva, Mailchimp, social scheduling platforms, CRM systems (e.g. HubSpot) and project management tools.

We offer a supportive, collaborative team culture with direct exposure to senior management on every account from day one. Flexible hybrid working (London-based collaboration days) and a commitment to work–life balance. 22 days annual leave including bank/public holidays, plus your birthday off. Clear progression to Senior Account Manager and Brand Lead for the right person — we'll support you on that journey. Investment in your development — we'll fund the training that helps you grow. A transparent way of working: every account team member can see fees, days and over-service position on their accounts at any time. We welcome portfolios or writing samples if you'd like to share examples of your work.

We're targeting an early September start (or sooner), to land ahead of our biggest event of the year. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to race, gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation and socio-economic status. If you require any adjustments to the application process, please let us know — we're happy to support you.