Ben Hickey Email & Phone Number

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Singapore

Singapore

Healthcare divisional lead at Weber Shandwick Singapore. Overseeing Rx, medical education, consumer health and public health campaigns for global, regional and Singaporean campaigns. Currently working with Moderna, Unilever, Boehringer Ingelheim, Novartis, Siemens Healthineers, Illumina, Ferring and Merz Aesthetics.

London, United Kingdom

Leading a number of Healthcare and Consumer Healthcare clients including Gilead, Pfizer and Sanofi.

London

Various short term projects for agencies and travelling

London, United Kingdom

Working in the 'Brand' team on various projects for GSK within consumer health.

London, United Kingdom

Various placements with PR agencies and travelling.

London, United Kingdom

• Communications strategy and implementation across a number of food, drink, consumer health and corporate clients
• Leading account team on Jordans cereal, Tilda rice, Campbell's soup, Unearthed tapas, Allinson and Burgen bread, Tetley tea, Clark's maple syrup, V8 juice, Lantmannen bakery, Stormfront computer retailers and Falmouth.
• Driving new business, digital and training workstreams

Vauxhall, London

• Director-in-charge on the Nestlé account responsible for campaigns for Carnation and Purina (pet food)
• Other accounts include Ki Fit and Icon Health and Fitness in the obesity and fitness spaces as well as Emla (OTC)
• Executed a national partnership with the National Childbirth Trust and Emla including events, editorial and sponsorship
• Led new business pitches and projects
• Headed-up the cross-company Social Media workstream

London, United Kingdom

• A consumer-health PR specialist team within Chandler Chicco Companies.
• Managed the Innocent account on a campaign to promote the virtue of 5-a-day to healthcare professionals and consumers as well as Yakult, Pfizer Health Solutions and Novartis Oncology (global account)
• Designed and executed a communications programme around innocent’s response to the Government’s Public Health White Paper – the innocent Orange Paper – and achieved over 30 media hits across consumer and HCP titles
• Part of the global Coca-Cola team, working with the world’s leading consumer brand on various healthcare, environmental, political and sustainability issues and programmes
• Worked across a number of pharmaceutical campaigns in various disease areas including stroke, pulmonary hypertension, HIV, lung cancer and skin cancer for leading pharmaceutical companies including Boehringer.
• Managed the media relations activity around Boehringer Ingelheim’s leading Pradaxa product’s Phase III data launch resulting in over 1,000 pieces of global coverage

• Worked on the key Nurofen Europe account. Acted within a cross-market hub role on the publication of and media relations around a pan-European study with over 8,000 consumers in relation to pain management
• Won the pitch and managed the GlaxoSmithKline travel health portfolio (malaria and hepatitis B)
• Worked on a PR programme for alli for GlaxoSmithKline’s consumer health division during its switch from POM to P

• Responsible for agency ‘quality’, new business, training and managing several key accounts including Unilever (Sunsilk and Cif), Bradford and Bingley, Cow and Gate, Pioneer, Luminar Leisure nightclub chain, P&G (Iams).
• In charge of training and development of staff having conducted courses in Client Service, Crisis Management and Corporate Comms

London, United Kingdom

• Managed and led a ten-person team responsible for major clients such as Boots, The Learning and Skills Council, Kraft, Astra Zeneca, Allied Bakeries, Nestlé Rowntree, Findus, and Kellogg’s
• Developed divisional new business drive, managing key pitches for Allied Bakeries, Nestlé, Department for Education and Skills and McCains