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Job Title: Public Relations Manager

Client Location: London – Hybrid

Starting: ASAP

Salary/Pay Rate: £31.30 per hour (PAYE)

Hours: Full-time

Duration: 9 Months

Job Description:

Our client, a multinational technology company, is seeking a PR Manager to join their team for a period of 9 months. You will primarily cover Europe, however ad hoc support in MENA and India will also be required. Within this role you can expect to engage and manage international PR agencies, support the media relations and support with regular internal reporting.

This is a hybrid role paying £31.30 per hour (PAYE).

Role responsibilities:

• Manage proactive PR around tentpole events
• Identify news moments and create news assets
• Develop and implement the onsite media approach
• Support with content reviews of marketing-created materials
• Draft and lead on approvals for press content
• Manage London-based PR agency
• Help streamline processes
• Review marketing-created content

Required skills:

• PR experience either in house or at an agency
• Strong communication and project management skills
• Media relations experience
• Excellent writing ability
• Knowledge of working across Europe and or internationally (beneficial)
• European language(s) capability (beneficial)
• Understanding of the advertising industry (beneficial)

**Please note that if you haven’t received a response within 48 working hours, your application has been unsuccessful at this time**

Client Description:

Our Client is a FTSE 100, multinational technology company no longer known for just one thing. Their areas of expertise include e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, artificial intelligence, original entertainment… the list goes on. Despite being primarily digital, their aim is to be the most customer-centric company in the world.

Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.

Aquent UK

£34-£38K – A PR agency of choice who, due to a number of exciting new business wins, are seeking to expand with an Account Manager to join their amazing Property & Design team working across a variety of luxury property, architecture, and interior design projects/brands.

Your clients will be upmarket property developers architects and designers and you’ll have the opportunity to entertain journalists and develop contacts as well as attend and support high profile events and parties in the fashion, music and film worlds. Plus you will get the opportunity to experience some wonderful venues.

The Candidate

• Relevant sector PR experience ideally agency side, but in-house for a brand in the property sector also considered.
• Excellent network of property and design press contacts.
• Strong time management skills.
• Dynamic, confident personality.
• Ability to manage and mentor junior colleagues.
• A passion for property and design along with a hunger to grow and develop a career in one of London’s most dynamic creative brand development agencies.

The offering

• Base salary of £34-£38K.
• Flexible working and work from home options.
• Stake in the company bonus scheme.
• 10% commission on new fees brought into the company.
• 50% of phone bill costs paid – AM and above.
• The opportunity to dine and drink for free in some of London’s best restaurants and bars.
• Regular events and openings to attend – The Brits, LFW, V&A FiM.
• Weekly training sessions led internally and externally.
• Regular team and company socials.
• Lovely Office Space in desirable part of London.

To Apply

Please apply online, or send your CV and cover note to [email protected]. Alternatively, you can call Justyne on 07971 361206 to chat through the role.

PRFutures

Job description:

The Peninsula London is seeking a talented Director of Communications & Partnerships, to work with the Director of Sales & Marketing and lead the Communications team. An essential part of this role will be to introduce and ignite local and international brand partners, by developing relationships with key influencers from global luxury brands, local luxury boutiques, fashion, design, art, entertainment, philanthropy, and royalty to increase brand awareness and elevate brand image.

• An exceptional opportunity to join our high-profile flagship hotel opening in London
• Market leading remuneration, service charge and attractive benefits
• Join our award-winning group, working alongside a highly experienced team

Key Accountabilities:

• Work closely with the Director of Sales and Marketing and Department Heads to develop the hotel’s annual brand partnerships and communications strategy, activities, and implementation
• Responsible for the communications team, to develop creative and innovative content to support, product introduction, service offerings and new technologies
• Establish processes to generate a stream of engaging news and promote The Peninsula London through targeted channels, working alongside copywriters and PR agencies to create content that upholds standards
• Oversee The Peninsula London press activities, liaising with key stakeholders to secure positive coverage in target media channels while building on and maintain relationships, providing relevant information and ensuring all concerns or queries are managed efficiently
• Responsible for the overall planning and supervision of key projects including but not limited to, brand filming, product shoots, high profile events and the Grand Opening Party
• Executes and uses proven strategies to ensure the hotel events and partnerships are representative of The Peninsula brand

General Requirements:

• Minimum 10 years relevant experience in communications or public relations in the luxury consumer, hotel, or travel industries
• Must have excellent copywriting skills and attention to detail
• The successful candidate must be able to make strong and long-lasting connections with exceptional interpersonal skills
• Strong connections with media outlets in the hospitality and hotel industry
• Fluent English communication proficiency

We are delighted to receive your CV and will liaise with suitable candidates directly. 

The Peninsula Hotels

Paid Media Coordinator

Wasted Talent – The Face, Mixmag & Kerrang

Full time

Hybrid working, 4 days in London office

Reports to: Projects Director

Wasted Talent is a global network of music and lifestyle media brands. Our family includes the biggest and most influential music, culture and entertainment platforms: Mixmag, Kerrang! and The Face.

Overseen by the Media Strategist, you will manage our commercial media campaign from media planning to implementation, delivery and reporting, across the Wasted Talent network, The Face, Mixmag and Kerrang!

Key Responsibilities

• Take ownership of the entire media process of a commercial project from brief through to implementation and reporting
• Collaborate with the Partnerships team in the creation of media plans
• Liaise with internal teams to ensure best in class media delivery in response to a client brief
• Implement and manage ad campaigns across various platforms including Meta, TikTok and Google to ensure successful project delivery
• Liaise with third parties to set up display campaigns and ensure cross-project success. Monitor available display inventory across The Wasted Talent network
• Manage campaign media costs to ensure campaigns deliver within budget and monthly reporting to the Head of Operations
• Produce end of campaign analysis reports for Clients, Partnerships team and Head of Operations
• Point of call for clients and media agencies on tagging requirements, campaign performance and results 
• Build relationships with key media partners and technology vendors to deliver the best service and opportunities for clients
• Execute tests, collect and analyse data, identify trends and insights to maximise performance
• Continue to develop your knowledge in trends across social, paid media, and display. Present learnings and continue to educate the wider team

Essential skills 

• Prior experience in paid social
• Experience in a media agency environment
• Experience in a fast paced environment
• Proactive approach to learning
• Excellent problem solving and solution finding skills
• Experience using Microsoft Excel / Google Sheets

Desired skills

Prior media planning experience

To apply please email your CV and cover letter to jobs@​theface.​com

The Face Magazine

Situation, a digital-first agency building passionate communities for live experience-based clients like Wicked, Lion King, and Frozen, seeks a Media Director with 6+ years of experience to join the small but growing London team, leading the digital media strategy and offering for UK-based clients in close collaboration with the wider, multi-office agency Media Team.

What You’ll Do

The Media Director will be responsible for growing our UK digital media offering. They will develop and manage digital media campaign efforts for our clients, including live events, West End shows, arts & culture institutions and attractions. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly collaborative, and has expert digital media platform and emerging technology knowledge. They will be an excellent communicator and great at sharing this knowledge both internally and externally. This role will oversee digital media campaign strategies, execute digital media plans, and optimise and report based on client objectives & budgets in collaboration with our internal teams.

The Media Director will be responsible for the management of the team of junior and senior-level Media Planners and Buyers throughout their day-to-day, ensuring best-in-class campaign buying, trafficking, optimisation and reporting. They will also work with the host of appropriate vendors and media partners and will be responsible for seeking out new opportunities for our clients as well as leading the overall optimisation, delivery and quality control of all active digital media campaigns across our clients. The Media Director provides in-depth analysis of the campaign progress in a way that translates to clear, actionable reporting for clients.

Our office is located in Holborn, London, and we are currently working in-office three days per week.

Sample Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Collaborate with both the account team and media teams on the overall approach to reaching the client’s goals and objectives while ensuring the team has what the need for successful campaign execution
• Lead internal and client-facing meetings, speaking to media campaign plans, performance and optimisation tactics / techniques
• Collaborate with the Director of Media Buying on recommendations and agency POV on vertical-specific trends and the digital media landscape at large along with new capabilities and platform best practices
• Maintain strong relationships with external vendors and partners while pushing for unique offerings and new capabilities
• Maintain the vendor directory with all current and potential vendors and media representatives
• Collaborate with the Director of Media Buying on all internal team processes and onboarding documentation / training etc.
• Manage media buyers to ensure proper QA, campaign set up, targeting, and budgets prior to launch
• Monitor campaign performance and recommend optimisations, in collaboration with Media Buying team
• Provide insights for client-facing reports, ensuring that DOMO is set up correctly and tracking appropriately across all planned platforms and tactics
• Manage, maintain, and clearly communicate budget status and considerations to Account and Media teams for assigned accounts
• Oversee direct reports (Media Planners, Media Buyers, Senior Media Buyers) from the hiring process, to onboarding and eventually on an ongoing basis to ensure they feel motivated, challenged and supported

Requirements

• A minimum of 6 years of experience in digital media planning
• Experience with/working knowledge of three or more of the following platforms: Programmatic/Display, such as Google Campaign Manager and Display & Video 360 experience; The Trade Desk and paid social platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn Snapchat, Pinterest, TikTok
• Previous experience with Google Analytics
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint and the Google Suite
• Ability to distill down numerous data points and reports, to create a compelling media narrative and create actionable insights and recommendations
• Ability to successfully deliver client-facing presentations
• Situation is a dynamic growing team, with a start-up mentality. Individuals applying should be excited by the potential to join a fast-moving team, with big ambitions, and be willing to jump in on all aspects of the media planning process to ensure group success.

Benefits

We offer a competitive base salary and a range of benefits and perks:

• Salary range: £65,000-£75,000 per year, commensurate with experience
• Generous paid time off package that includes 23 PTO days, 5 sick days, “life happens” days, birthdays, summer Fridays and bank holidays
• Wellness Resources
• Pension scheme
• Special access to London’s arts and entertainment scene

We have been honored for our commitment to our team with workplace awards from Crain’s, Best Companies Group, Cynopsis, Digiday, and Fortune.

Our Company

We are Situation, a digital-first agency that builds and drives passionate communities to meaningful action. We partner with live experience-based brands like NFL, WICKED on Broadway, The Metropolitan Opera, and Cirque du Soleil.

Situation is part of Situation Group, a digital-first collective of award-winning advertising agencies.

Situation

SHORT FILM

LOOKING FOR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN FROM STOCKPORT/ MANCHESTER

AGED 20-25

FOR A SHORT FILM ABOUT A RELATIONSHIP AND ADDICTION

CASTING CALL

LOOKING FOR PEOPLE AGED 18-28 FOR A MUSIC VIDEO

We are looking for the following as walk-on cast for a music video.

-South Asian male aged 18-28 for “bell boy” role.
– female of any ethnicity, slim and attractive aged 25-35 for the “receptionist” role
– male, caucasian, handsome EU or UK. Aged 18-28 for “waiter” role

The fee is £250 all in for a walk-on role.

shoot will be one day on the 25th of March

We are looking for curvy Depop users for a new Depop campaign!

All ethnicities and abilities are welcome!  

Are you a skateboarder who uses Depop to find & sell excellent pieces?

We are looking for skateboarders of all ethnicities. Are you a skateboarder who uses Depop to find & sell excellent pieces?

We are looking for skateboarders of all races, abilities, and genders!  

Hi, we’re DuckDuckGo, the Internet privacy company for everyone who wants to take back their privacy now. For over a decade, we’ve been building our all-in-one product, developing new privacy technology, and working with policymakers to make online privacy simple and accessible for all.

Our app is now downloaded more than 75M times a year, and our private search engine packaged with it has become the #2 search engine on mobile in over 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, and the Netherlands. Oh, and we’ve been profitable since 2014 with revenue currently exceeding $100 million a year! Now, we’re rolling out a suite of new privacy solutions, including Email Protection, App Tracking Protection and our first-ever Desktop Apps for Mac and Windows.

We’re looking for a Senior Creative Ad Producer to help shape our all-in-one privacy solution and join our mission to show the world that protecting your privacy online can be simple.

The Opportunity

In this role, you will be a foundational member of an in-house ad creative team and help grow and shape the ad production discipline within the User Acquisition team. You’ll apply your creativity and leadership skills to manage the development and production of DuckDuckGo ads across our multi-channel portfolio, including TV, online video, radio, billboard, and more.

Partnering closely with internal and external creatives, you’ll distill campaign ideas into ads that speak to specific audiences and serve as the single point of contact for production companies, directors, business affairs consultants, and contractors.

What You Will Bring to DuckDuckGo

• 7+ years of experience pioneering the development of ad campaigns and driving large-scale productions.
• Experience producing video content for TV and major digital video platforms (e.g., YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, etc.).
• Experience working with in-house legal and business development teams to negotiate favorable contract terms with external agencies, consultants, vendors, and third parties.
• Interpersonal skills to build and maintain relationships between internal and external stakeholders.
• A passion for hands-on, creative collaboration and experience in managing in-house ad creative development.
• Ability to lead and collaborate on high-impact and complex projects from proposal through postmortem.
• Skills to wrangle vague problems, propose innovative solutions, and execute them with a strong focus on metrics.

How We Will Support You

Our core values — build trust, question assumptions, and validate direction — underpin how we work day-to-day and the support we give our team members. We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

• Remote First, Always: We’ve always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world. We trust you to get your work done wherever, whenever.
• Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget of $1,250 USD to invest in their professional development. For team members in designated leadership roles, we offer reimbursement for leadership coaching services. The reimbursement amount varies by professional level. Every team member also has a dedicated Career Advisor, who serves as a guide to help you develop your strengths, identify your motivations, and understand your opportunities for growth.
• Leadership: We have many different types of leaders and possible combinations of leadership roles, so you can grow your career in a way that aligns best with your personal goals. You can seek additional leadership roles by being directly responsible for projects, taking ownership of areas of the company, developing and maintaining internal processes, or pursuing advisory roles.
• Work/Life Balance: Team members have the freedom and flexibility to organize their own work schedules. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.

We also offer paid parental leave, a co-working stipend, office setup reimbursement, and a wellness stipend. More support resources can be found in our, Team Member Support Guide† , which explains how we make your well-being a priority.

For more information on how we collaborate worldwide, from leadership in our relatively flat organization to start-to-finish ownership, check out DuckDuckGo Culture: How We Work††.

Compensation

Annual compensation: $170,000 USD and stock options. Compensation is the same within a professional level, regardless of geographic location or functional area, and the compensation for each professional level is transparent across the organization.

Hiring Process

Hiring works best when it’s a two-way street. Learn how we help you get to know DuckDuckGo and envision your future role here. Find out more about how we hire†††.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

DuckDuckGo provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to [email protected] to let us know the nature of your request.

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Please note that:

• Sometimes we meet up! Expect to travel at least two times a year: once for our all-hands meetup and again for a team retreat (each around 4-5 days). While extenuating circumstances may impact attendance, everyone is strongly encouraged to attend.
• While we offer a flexible work arrangement with no core hours, expect an average full-time commitment of 40 hours per week.
• A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
• By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.

† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/team_support_guide.pdf

†† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_work.pdf

††† https://duckduckgo.com/assets/hiring/how_we_hire.pdf

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