Consultant | Corporate Communications | Dubai

About us

Hanover is an award-winning communications consultancy that advises enterprises, institutions, and individuals on building recognition and enhancing reputation. From our offices across Europe and the Middle East, we adopt an integrated approach that connects the dots across channels, audiences and issues. Our collective of smart, curious people think differently and live by a shared mission, purpose, vision, and values. These shape how we work, not just with our colleagues, but with clients and partners too. Our mission is to ‘rewire communications for impact’ and harness its transformative power to advocate, trailblaze and make a difference. We do this by igniting and empowering the potential of every individual within our company, recognising that each person is a unique spark, capable of creating extraordinary impact. We believe that by nurturing and harnessing the collective brilliance of our people, we can drive innovation, foster an uncommon work culture, and make a positive difference to society. Embracing the complete range of skills and services across the communications spectrum without constraint, we create the best outcomes for our clients and deliver world-class work.

Role Overview

Hanover Middle East is seeking a Consultant (Account Manager equivalent) to support our growing team across Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. As a Consultant at Hanover, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality communications services to clients across the region. Your primary responsibility will be to ensure clients receive responsive, well-organised and effective day-to-day support, aligned with their business objectives. This includes monitoring the media landscape, identifying opportunities and risks, drafting clear and compelling materials, and ensuring consistent delivery against agreed scopes of work. You will support a diverse portfolio of regional and international clients across a wide range of sectors including financial services, professional services, real estate, energy, and education, in addition to supporting government entities. This is a hands-on role in a fast-paced consultancy environment, suited to someone proactive, organised and commercially aware.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day client activity across multiple accounts
• Monitor media to identify opportunities and risks
• Draft press releases, media pitches, reports and briefing materials
• Build and maintain strong journalist relationships across the region
• Provide responsive press office support and manage media enquiries
• Support and manage client events, including press conferences and briefings
• Contribute to new business proposals and pitch presentations
• Ensure work is delivered on time, to budget and to a high professional standard
• Manage time effectively to meet utilisation targets

Skills & Experience

• At least 3 years’ experience in corporate communications, ideally within an agency (those with no prior corporate communications experience will not be considered)
• Strong understanding of the UAE media landscape (KSA experience a plus)
• Excellent writing and communication skills
• Proven ability to manage multiple deadlines and priorities
• Confident engaging with journalists and stakeholders
• Commercially aware and accountable

BENEFITS

In addition to a competitive salary, your core benefits package will include:

• An annual performance-related bonus plus additional bonus potential linked to recruitment, new business and long service
• 25 days’ annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• Work permit and residency visa sponsorship (where applicable)

You’ll also have access to a wide range of opportunities and initiatives, including:

• Flexible working policies, plus eligibility to apply for a sabbatical after 2 years’ service
• The Hanover Academy, which incorporates training, coaching, mentoring and reverse-mentoring opportunities to support personal development and career progression across all levels, with a generous training budget
• A wellbeing programme, featuring pre- and post-maternity leave coaching, a working parents’ group, subsidised gym membership
• Our Culture Club, with a robust social calendar all year round, Trailblazer of the Month award, Lunch & Learns, CSR activity.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement

Hanover Communications is an equal opportunities employer, committed to creating and ensuring a fair, inclusive, and diverse work environment where all individuals are treated with respect and dignity. We believe that equality and diversity are essential to high performance and a thriving culture. We maintain a strict no-tolerance stance against any form of discrimination and harassment, ensuring all individuals are treated equitably, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, religion, beliefs, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, marital or pregnancy status, genetic background, or any other attribute safeguarded under our company policies or federal, state or local laws and legislation. We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, please send an email to recruitment@hanovercomms.com with the nature of your request. We are committed to transparency about how we collect and use your data, including ensuring we comply with legal obligations relating to data protection.