Senior Consultant (Senior Account Manager) | Public Affairs | London

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. We are looking for a driven Senior Consultant (Senior Account Manager equivalent) to join our dynamic and agile Advocacy team. They will advise Hanover's public affairs clients on the latest political and policy agendas providing high-quality advice together with a creative contribution towards new business activity including acquisition, development and pitching. This role offers the opportunity to project manage flagship accounts, develop lasting client relationships and play a central role in business development. The successful candidate will join our award-winning, market-leading, public affairs practice, working with over twenty political specialists to advise some of the world's biggest brands on UK political and regulatory issues. Our consultants work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment, and are equally in the office, at a pitch or at a networking event. We also enjoy being an extension of our clients' in-house teams. Our clients include Meta, Trainline, Paramount, FSCS and Valero. PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Provide timely and relevant tactical advice to clients on engagement opportunities, policy, and the mechanics of the political process. Draft and review briefing notes for and about UK political stakeholders and policy issues, contributing strategic insight to monitoring reports and briefings. Conduct stakeholder mapping interviews, evaluate findings and draft reports with clear tactical recommendations. Build and maintain effective working relationships with relevant Parliamentary representatives, journalists, stakeholders, clients and other team members. Identify and advise clients on the most effective way to approach and engage with key target stakeholder groups. Attend and support meetings between clients and political stakeholders, ensuring delivery of follow-up actions are clear and timely. Develop concepts for and supervise the delivery of stakeholder events. Prepare and review submissions in response to consultations from Government and other key stakeholders. Maintain a strong focus on quality, rigorously reviewing communications, reports and client deliverables to ensure accuracy and professionalism. Maintain regular client contact, including attending and contributing to client meetings and, where appropriate, leading on internal account meetings. Provide strong project management support across multiple accounts, assigning actions, keeping work on deadline and ensuring agendas and action notes are completed in a timely manner. Support and mentor Interns, Account Executives and Senior Account Executives by providing guidance to improve quality of work and overall efficiency. Contribute creatively towards new business pitches and lead on brainstorms with the wider team. Identify prospective clients or new wor…