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The Client

Harmonic are proud to be working with one of UK’s fastest-growing PR agencies in the search for a PR Account Director to join their team in the London offices. The agency has strong expertise on creating positive social and environmental impact, working with companies who are looking to make a meaningful change. They are looking for an Account Director with intelligence and ambition who has at least 3 years’ experience in PR, and ideally some experience in the corporate sector. Their work has been regularly acknowledged with prestigious industry awards, where they help brands build awareness to create engaging content and sell across multiple channels.

The agency describes their culture as compassionate and collaborative, with an emphasis on inclusion and a flat structure. All voices are heard, employees feel valued and encouraged to grow professionally to progress in their career. The office space is located in a vibrant and diverse location tailored to promote outstanding performance from employees.

The Role

This position will be effectively managing and overseeing a PR team to ensure exceptional campaigns are delivered to the client and helping to identify and gain new accounts. This role would only be suitable to someone who is creative, commercially minded and have an excellent ability at building and maintaining relationships.

• Consulting and providing senior strategy for client accounts
• Developing stories and pitches to the board, client’s, and key stakeholders
• Acting as a team leader ensuring support is provided for more junior positions and leading account managers with performance reviews and support
• Analysing projects and ensuring they’re profitable
• Keeping up with current trends, news, and everchanging culture
• Media relations and relevant contact list
• Ability to deal with short deadlines and keep calm under pressure

Required Experience

• Experience in corporate / consumer sector
• Leadership and management skills within a PR agency on in-house position
• Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
• Working with social platforms and their features to target audiences
• Evidence of successfully gaining new clients and providing pitches for accounts
• Collaborative, inquisitive, flexible
• Supporting and managing multiple clients at the same time

Start Date: ASAP

Salary: £55,000 – £65,000 (full salary based on 4-day week)

Location: Central London

Please get in touch at [email protected]

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Harmonic Operations™ | Certified B Corp

• PR Coordinator
• Marketing Department
• Beaverbrooks Head Office, Lytham St Annes
• Permanent- 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday 9am-5pm
• £24,000-£27,000 per annum depending on experience + excellent benefits + bonus scheme
• Close date: 26th Feb
• Initial Phone Interviews: w/c 27th Feb
• Interviews: w/c 6th March

We now have an exciting opportunity for a PR Cooordintor, who displays great communication skills, to join our fast-paced PR & Influencer Marketing team, and drive a varied range of projects.

Our PR Coordinator will sit within the PR & Events team and will be focused on driving awareness, reputation and engagement for our Beaverbrooks brands through effective consumer and business PR (traditional and digital channels) and working with a growing network of influencers.

You will report into the PR & Events Manager and work closely with the wider marketing team, product, retail and ecommerce teams to deliver inspiring and seamless multichannel campaigns.

We are proud to have recently achieved sixth position in the prestigious 100 Best Companies to Work For list 2022, in addition to being announced as ‘Retail’s Best Company to Work For’ 2022. It’s also our 17th consecutive year of receiving three-star accreditation for ‘world class’ levels of workplace engagement.

Working at Beaverbrooks also brings with it a whole host of rewards and benefits, some of which are:

• Great office profit share bonus
• Outstanding staff discounts which extend to your family & friends
• Free car parking
• Wellbeing scheme
• Contributory Pension & Life Assurance
• Breakfast club – breakfast provided free of charge, Monday to Friday
• Regular social events- including, but not limited to: pay day drinks, football hospitality events, theatre and theme park trips.
• Free eye test every 2 years
• Flu Vaccinations paid for
• Enhanced maternity and paternity package
• Maternity return to work bonus
• Employee & family support & counselling – Retail Trust

Although the role is based at our Head Office in Lancashire, we are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview

Main Responsibilities

PR

• As the day-to-day press officer, you’ll be working with our PR agency to deliver the BAU product stream of our PR calendar, which means identifying and evaluating opportunities (lifestyle trends, using insight from broader social/SEO and buying teams)
• Supporting the planning and implementation of hero PR initiatives and campaigns. You’ll be the link between other teams to ensure all stakeholders are maximising the PR opportunity
• Write and distribute a variety of PR comms including press releases, brand communications, quotes, comments, statements and award entries
• Work with the Events Coordinator to arrange and host press events
• Development of our LinkedIn profile(s) to help showcase our amazing Beaverbrooks business and inspire other leaders across the country –producing and briefing content, building profiles
• Regular reporting and sharing PR success – evaluating press coverage towards objectives on a weekly and quarterly basis

Influencers

• Delivering the overall Influencer strategy and plan
• Working with our influencer agency and directly with influencers themselves to ensure activity is delivered as per the plan – to include briefing of campaigns, reviewing and approving content, along with proactively flagging any delays or issues as they come up
• You’ll play a lead role in curating our preferred bank of influencers over time – working with our influencer partners, as well as the wider marketing and social teams you’ll be responsible for identifying new talent, building and managing this list
• Regular reporting on the success of hero influencer campaigns and the ongoing performance of individual influencers

The Ideal Candidate

Essential skills/experience:

• Previous PR experience, ideally agency side with UK consumer media relations experience
• First class communication skills both written and verbal (with previous experience in copy writing i.e. press releases, statements, LinkedIn posts, award entries, case studies etc)
• A passion for PR and influencer marketing in equal measure – and a desire to always learn more
• Results driven
• Ability to be adaptable, reactive, responsive. Comfortable working at pace
• Proactive, self-starting approach
• Creative problem solving
• Highly organised and adept at prioritisiation

Desirable skills/experience:

• Knowledge of Gorkana, Meltwater, Onclusive, Vuelio, Adobe InDesign / Photoshop and Influencer Marketing Platforms will be advantageous attributes
• Commercial aptitude and experience managing budgets and negotiating costs

A portfolio of work would be advantageous, which can be shared during application

About The Company

We’re a family business. And you can tell that when you get here. It feels like family.

Established in 1919 we now have 73 stores across the UK and an ecommerce website, which was launched in 2001. We provide exceptional quality diamonds, jewellery and watches as well as top name brands such as TAG Heuer, Omega, Breitling, Tudor, Gucci and Vivienne Westwood.

Our purpose is to enrich lives, which simply means making a positive difference to the world we live in. We donate 20 per cent of retained profits to charity and since the year 2000, Beaverbrooks has donated £20 million to over 1000 different charities.

We pride ourselves on the work we do for local communities and in support of this we offer charity matching – you raise it, we match it! You can also take 2 paid charity days per year where you can spend time away from the business doing charity work and take time off to give blood.

If you would like to know more about Beaverbrooks, visit https://www.beaverbrooks.co.uk/about-us

Beaverbrooks

PR Account Manager

B2B and engagement campaigns for clients in professional services, energy, construction, and property.

Location: Cheltenham, with the ability to work flexibly from the office/home.

Who & what are we?

We are an award-winning, employee-owned communications agency. We have a reputation for excellent strategic advice, value-adding creative campaigns, and high impact delivery.

We manage corporate reputations; we support businesses through growth, re-structure, and change; and we help organisations connect with each other and their stakeholders.

We have offices in London, Birmingham, Cheltenham, and York. We offer a hybrid working pattern and environment where you will have the opportunity to learn, develop and grow, with structured career development programmes and a varied client portfolio.

As of November 2022, Camargue is a fully employee-owned business. After 35 years supporting clients through their growth, re-structure and change, our future remains proudly independent and firmly in our hands. We work in some of the most exciting sectors in the UK and our teams are responsible for award-winning campaigns.

We strive for an inclusive and diverse workplace that reflects the wider world around us, the clients and communities we represent and the campaigns we deliver. We are committed to providing equal opportunities for all, regardless of gender, marital status, sexual orientation, age, race, ethnic origin, religion, or disability. We especially welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in our business.

Who and what will you be?

• You’ll work principally with our valued corporate and business-to-business clients, unearthing stories and crafting features, case studies, press releases and online content.
• You will have responsibility for driving forward a portfolio of varied accounts simultaneously, backed by an Account Director and the wider team.
• You will own the campaign or project strategy defined in the original programme, leading, and motivating the team to achieve this.
• This pivotal role is the eyes and ears of the team, scouting out issues, and opportunities both internally and externally.
• You’ll ensure everyone on the account is aware of their priorities, delivers on time, and on target, achieving the overall objectives to a high standard of quality.
• You will also work with our consultation and engagement clients on projects that are vital to society, for example new sources of renewable energy. You’ll deliver online and in-person engagement programmes with stakeholders and local communities, including producing suites of printed and digital materials and delivering events.
• You’ll be contributing to clients’ businesses on a strategic level, showing an understanding of their commercial environment and the issues that might affect them.
• You’ll have a willingness to work flexibly as required, often under pressure, including travel as needed within the UK for client meetings and events.
• The opportunity to acquire the skills and qualities to build a career with us through promotion to Account Director and beyond.

You will

• Be a key day-to-day contact for your clients, working with them and our teams to deliver successful content campaigns.
• Represent your clients internally to ensure effective creative briefing & delivery of all projects, on time and on budget, whilst managing client relationships & expectations.
• Create client presentations as required.
• Compile budgets and timing plans for clients.
• Ensure creative & strategic excellence across all deliverables.
• Share clear and thorough updates and reporting with clients regularly over email, phone calls and face-to-face meetings, while providing recommendations and expertise at every stage of the campaign.
• Manage the work priorities for yourself and your project team.
• Be able to thrive in a very fast-paced environment.

Skills & Experience

• Have between four and eight-years’ experience in Public Relations or a closely related field.
• Have successfully dealt with all aspects of a communications or engagement campaign/project, having driven it forward to the point of delivery.
• Adept at turning complex information into fresh, engaging content for audiences including the media, stakeholders, the general public and online.
• Ability to skilfully and sensitively deal with both clients and journalists to negotiate quality positive coverage that helps achieve agreed objectives.
• An interest in and understanding of local and national politics and current affairs.
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a tight-knit team to meet often demanding deadlines.
• Strong spoken and written communication skills, with good presentation, consultation, and negotiation abilities
• Strong organisational and time management capabilities, bringing good business sense and the ability to work to budgets.

Characteristics

• Strong communication skills both verbally and in writing.
• Strong creativity with high attention to detail.
• Confidence, tact, and a professional and friendly manner.
• Great team player with a client-centric focus and possess the ability to build effective working relationships.
• Good ‘people skills’, for working with a range of colleagues and clients.
• A problem solver who is proactive, driven and ultra-organised.
• Self-motivated and ambitious.
• Sense of humour.

What’s in it for you?

• Clear progression, training, development & career planning.
• Hybrid working.
• Fantastic, friendly, close-knit team.
• Summer and Christmas socials.
• Employer-contributed pension scheme.
• Life insurance.
• 25 days holiday allowance + bank holidays.
• Employee assistance programme including medical, mental health, and financial support.
• Private healthcare.
• Electric vehicle scheme.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Competitive Salary plus benefits.

Camargue

Working for a well-established, high-growth, award winning digital marketing agency, The Paid Media Director will lead the cross channelled digital marketing strategy, for a portfolio of well-known and emerging brands in the UK.

The Paid Media Director will be responsible for:

• Planning and leading strategy on campaigns
• Cross channelled media performance
• Leading and launching new campaigns
• Managing and growing a talented team of Account Managers/Executives
• Client management and pitching to new clients
• Analysing campaign performance

The Paid Media Director will have:

• Strong experience creating strategic media plans
• Experience with 2 or more digital marketing channels, e.g. Paid Search, PPC, Paid Social, Programmatic, Display, etc.
• Thrived in agile, fast paced environments
• Experience running projects to time and budget
• Ideally managed or mentored others before
• Candidates can come from agency, retail, ecommerce, travel, media, gaming, start-ups, etc.

This is a great opportunity for a talented Paid Media Director to join a rapidly growing, award winning, digital performance agency, which still has a start-up vibe, amazing perks and extremely flexible hours!

Paid Media Director

£65K + bonus + benefits

London, Brighton or Remote

RedCat Digital

Touchdown PR is an award winning, global tech communications agency with people around the world, working with an enviable portfolio of clients. You may have our recent exciting news that we’ve now joined the Ruder Finn family, further growing the opportunities for career and professional development as part one of the world’s leading PR houses.

Our established team of permanent and freelance professionals is growing thanks to our continued success, so we’re now looking a talented PR Account Manager to join our team. This is a hybrid role which can be split between home working and our hub in London (Liverpool Street).

You’ll get a selection of topmost international accounts to work with, acting as a trusted partner and helping to elevate their approach to media, communications and spreading the word about their innovations. You’ll manage some of the junior team of Account Coordinators and Account Executives, ensuring results for our clients while developing their skills and experience too.

What you’ll be doing

• You will be the main point of contact on accounts for the client, managing the monthly activities and driving results
• Working closely with Account Directors to develop and execute PR strategies to achieve client business goals
• Managing and supporting junior team members, ensuring that activities are carried out as required and reviewing content ready for client approval
• Coordinating with international colleagues to ensure the delivery of a seamless PR programme
• And more!

Requirements

Successful candidates will have experience gained from in a similar role, working with technology clients from start ups through to established corporate companies. You’ll be hands on, pitching, writing and directly dealing with media contacts on successful PR campaigns. You’ll also be able to think “big picture” and guide our clients, helping to shape strategy as well as overseeing deliverables from other members of the team.

A few key things we think you’ll need:

• Preferably 3+ years experience in a tech focused PR agency (applicants with experience gained in house or from a different sector also considered)
• Strong communication and organisation skills
• Accurate and compelling writing
• A degree in a relevant field such as: PR, communications, English, History, or other similar arts and humanities subjects

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Annual bonus scheme
• Private Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• 27 days annual leave + birthday day off + bank holidays
• International office travel program
• Life assurance
• Hybrid flexible working
• Regular events, socials and team activities

Touchdown is proud to welcome people from all walks of life. We have an active Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) team of Ambassadors who work closely with our leadership, with the aim of making our business open and inclusive to everyone.

Apply today, we can’t wait to hear from you

Touchdown PR – a Ruder Finn company

About us…

Slimming World is the UK’s leading weight management organisation, helping members lose weight in our community-based groups around the UK and Ireland and online through our digital programme. Our vision is to make the world a healthier, happier place – we build communities on kindness, trust and respect, inspire each other to achieve excellence and invest in our people.

About the role…

This is an opportunity for someone who is passionate about PR and helping people to live healthier lives to join our dynamic in-house PR team as PR Assistant, raising awareness of Slimming World and protecting its hard-won reputation. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to support on PR campaigns, work directly with journalists and media outlets, and collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders to showcase Slimming World’s expertise and share our inspirational and motivational member success stories.

You’ll work with the wider charity and Public Affairs teams to raise awareness of Slimming World and its activities, such as the 2023 Race for Life sponsorship and the Slimming World London Marathon team, ensuring awareness of the company’s strong culture and positive brand image grows. You’ll build and strengthen relationships with journalists working across the national and regional media and work with them to reach audiences with inspiring Slimming World stories, supporting members to share their weight-loss transformations and engaging potential new members.

Working with your PR colleagues you’ll develop and hone essential PR skills through direct approaches from the media and monitoring press coverage featuring Slimming World and industry topics, while staying up to date with PR trends.

We’d love to hear from you if you are naturally warm and friendly with a sense of fun, and:

• ​are self-motivated, can work across multiple projects and prioritise workload with good time-management skills
• are empathetic and passionate about inspiring and motivating people to lead healthier lives
• are confident in communicating and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• have strong written and verbal communication skills

You’ll receive a generous rewards package including:

• ​salary £24,000 – £26,000 depending on experience
• a positive working culture and a friendly, safe and inspiring place to work
• annual performance-related bonus
• life assurance cover
• health cash-back plan plus access to rewards and discounts
• onsite gym and free exercise classes
• subsidised restaurant serving breakfast and lunch alongside free hot and cold drinks and fresh fruit
• regular social events
• 34 days holiday a year
• discounts at our gorgeous on-site salon
• free 12-week Slimming World membership, both in group or online

How to apply:

If you love the sound of this role and want to work with a friendly and supportive team, please send us a letter telling us about you and what has led you to apply for the role. Please also include an up-to-date CV to support your application. When you’re ready, please apply via our website www.slimmingworld.co.uk/careers -please include your current salary

Slimming World

Communications Assistant

Closing Date: 03 March 2023 @ 17:00

Salary Range: £25,000 – £28,000 pa depending on experience (details of further benefits below)

Contract: Permanent

Department: Marketing & Communications

Location: Motorsport UK, Bicester Motion

Hours of Work: Full Time (37.5 hours per week). Core hours are 09:00-17:30, Mon–Fri

Line Manager: Head of Communications & Public Affairs

Direct Reports: None

Who are Motorsport UK?

Motorsport UK unites communities through a shared passion and love of the sport. 50,000 licence holders, 10,000 volunteer marshals and 4,000 officials alongside millions of vibrant fans are active week in, week out, doing what they love.

Whether that’s the speed of drag racing, the close battles of circuit racing, the precision of AutoSOLOs or the social enjoyment of Touring Assemblies, the community is vibrant and alive.

At Motorsport UK, a team of 70 dedicated staff work as passionately as the members, driving forward values of integrity, innovation, collaboration and commitment in everything that’s delivered.

Your journey to make a difference at Motorsport UK begins today!

What’s the opportunity?

Motorsport UK is constantly shifting the way the organisation speaks to its community and grows its audience across its wide range of owned channels, how it extends its reach across secondary channels and how it earns coverage across external channels.

The Communications Assistant is a newly created role within Motorsport UK and would suit someone interested in commencing a career within both communications and motorsport. Working with the Head of Communications & Public Affairs, the role will be responsible for copywriting, assisting the communications function and engaging with motorsport media.

What else can you expect to be doing?

• Identifying opportunities and producing compelling copy and content that can be distributed across Motorsport UK’s digital / printed publications and to motorsport and consumer media.

• Collaborating on Motorsport UK owned communications, providing copywriting assistance and guidance, as well as creating posts / mailings as required in line with the departmental content calendar.

• Assisting with media and stakeholder engagement and answering media / member requests in a timely manner.

• Supporting the Head of Communications & Public Affairs with communications and public affairs workstreams.

• Managing and administering Motorsport UK’s Rally Media Accreditation process, providing timely and effective engagement with rally media, issuing licences, and distributing tabards.

• Working with the Marketing Manager to provide copywriting for marketing assets and content for key events, ensuring publications are produced in a timely manner.

• Managing the Motorsport UK media inbox, answering inbound requests within agreed timescales, and providing quality service to incoming media and members.

• Compiling a weekly coverage record of Motorsport UK activities and highlighting key coverage to share with the Senior Management Team.

• Proof reading copy for Motorsport UK toolkits, press releases, marketing materials and other items as required.

• Producing minutes from the weekly departmental meeting and circulating to the team with the department action tracker.

• Uploading news and other content items to the Motorsport UK suite of websites.

• Providing editorial and proofreading input into Revolution, Motorsport UK’s monthly member magazine.

• Providing creative input into Motorsport UK social, digital, marketing and communications campaigns.

• Liaising with video agencies, social media, and marketing to ensure the Motorsport UK strategy and key messages are respected in all public facing video materials.

Who are we looking for?

At Motorsport UK, we understand that our people will shape our success, and ultimately define our value to the motorsport community.

We’re looking for people who can demonstrate that they’re as passionate as our members, embracing and championing our core values of Innovation, Collaboration, Commitment, and Integrity.

Below are some of the experiences, knowledge, and skills that we believe will be vital for this role:

• Excellent copywriting skills, including the ability to produce compelling written material within tight deadlines.

• Ability to research effectively for written materials and to provide strong and factually correct copy.

• Highly methodical with a flexible approach to collaborating with others.

• Excellent organisational skills, including time management and the ability to prioritise tasks appropriately.

• Strong communication skills to liaise with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.

• Excellent IT skills (Microsoft Office suite), SharePoint and OneDrive.

• The ability to travel to and from the Motorsport UK offices in Bicester, Oxfordshire.

• Eligible to work in the UK.

• Full, clean driving licence.

In addition to the above, we feel the following points could really help someone hit the ground running:

• A communications, journalism, marketing, or media related degree.

• A knowledge of and interest in Motorsport.

• Knowledge of Adobe products (Photoshop and InDesign).

• Experience and a practical understanding of website CMS, social media management platforms, email marketing tools such as MailChimp or Dot Digital and Digital Asset Management tools such as Photoshelter.

What else is on offer for you?

• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays

• 10% pension contribution from Motorsport UK

• Private medical cover

• Holistic wellbeing support

• Life assurance and income protection

• Breakdown cover

• Free on-site parking

• A chance to work in the exciting world of motorsport

• Access to a host of other staff benefits

Where will you be based?

Home for us is in the heart of ‘Motorsport Valley’. Specifically, we’re located within the Heritage Quarter of the fantastic Bicester Motion site, Oxfordshire.

The UK’s only hub for historic motoring excellence, Bicester Heritage boasts over 45 specialist automotive and motorsport businesses. Founded in 2013 the 444 acre former WW2 RAF Bomber Training Station is all about driving the future of the past.

Our purpose built office space accommodates the near 70 committed people who passionately work for the betterment of our sport.

We’re big on creating the conditions for organic collaboration. However, we respect that some flexibility goes a long way towards supporting a healthy work-life balance. That’s why we operate a hybrid working policy whereby staff spend four days in the office, with the option to work remotely for the fifth.

Motorsport UK

Salary: Up to £36,000
Location: Greater London
Job Type: Permanent

We are on the look out for a superstar PR Account Manager to join award-winning boutique agency!

THE COMPANY

Our client is one of the UK’s leading drinks specialist PR agencies. They create award-winning PR, Events and Social Media campaigns for clients. They’ve been voted Best PR Company 3 times by The Drinks Business Magazine. Situated in lovely mews offices near Wimbledon train station. Enviable client list including Tesco, Gallo Winery, Martini and Vins de Bordeaux.

THE ROLE

HYBRID WORKING: 3 days per week in Wimbledon.

This is a fantastic opportunity for a bright PR account manager to join a boutique PR agency that specialise in providing their drinks clients with super coverage and events.

Within this role you will have a lot of ownership over your accounts – managing the client relationships and ensuring they have the best coverage. You will be line managing an Account Executive and will have their support in helping the clients’ visions come to life. You will be supported by the Account Director who has a lot of knowledge and is excellent to learn from – she is very nurturing, so great for career development!

This role will be hands on, covering everything from sourcing press samples to working on annual strategy plans and forging strong, enduring relationships with key drinks and lifestyle media across all channels.

You’ll be:

– Implementing management of client PR programmes.

– Working on proactive and reactive trade press activities.

– Working on proactive and reactive consumer press relations.

– Copywriting

– Organising and attending press briefings, dinners and events.

ETC.

YOU

This is a fantastic opportunity for someone with some existing PR experience within the UK (ideally 2-3 years). You do not need to have experience working with drinks brands, but this would be an advantage.

To be a successful candidate:

– You will come from a lifestyle PR background.

– You’ll be able to demonstrate a firm understanding of public and press relations.

– You’ll have high level written and verbal communication skills.

– Commercial understanding of impact of PR on client’s business.

– You’ll have lots of energy, enthusiasm and be keen to join a supportive team that produce great work!

In return, you will work in a fantastic agency, have the opportunity to gain additional training and qualifications through the agency. You’ll also receive excellent benefits.

If you’d like to apply for this role then please do so today!

Salary: Up to £36,000
Location: Greater London
Job Type: Permanent

NB: You must be eligible to work in the UK

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Stopgap – Marketing, Digital & Creative Recruitment

PR Account Manager

We’re looking for a PR Account Manager to join our vibrant agency, working on PR & communication briefs across a number of diverse and rewarding client accounts.

You’ll be a confident, ambitious and empathetic team member and natural leader, skilled at working at pace and with agility across multiple clients and disciplines. You’ll be an experienced PR Account Manager with proven skills in media relations, PR strategy, social media, and ideally stakeholder relations. You’ll also possess a proactive, can-do attitude and bring high levels of positivity to the workplace.

In addition, you’ll have commercial acumen and a demonstrable ability to deliver creative campaigns with measurable return on investment for clients across a wide variety of different industry sectors.

The role offers the chance for strong personal development and career progression and would suit an individual who thrives in a team environment and shares our agency values.

We offer hybrid working patterns, with two days per week based in our head office in Dorset and the rest as flexible / remote working. If you’re further afield, we’re open a more remote based role for the right candidate.

Candidate Profile

• Several years of current experience in public relations at Account Manager level, within a PR or comms agency setting, ideally encompassing both consumer & B2B disciplines

• The ability to confidently manage multiple client accounts across multiple sectors

• Demonstrate emotional intelligence and the ability to communicate proactively and effectively with diverse audiences

• A brilliant communicator who quickly builds client and media relationships

• Proven media relations success on a regional and national level

• A strong knowledge of strategic and tactical delivery, understanding client commercial objectives and translating these into effective PR plans with measurable results

• Flawless writing skills, with the ability to write persuasive, compelling copy for different sectors and audiences across a variety of different platforms – press releases, blogs, newsletters, social, etc

• Strong team ethos and creative drive

• Line management and team development skills

• Experience in paid social / digital marketing advantageous

Key responsibilities

• Managing a variety of projects/clients 

• PR strategy development

• Ensuring day-to-day account delivery to a high standard

• Developing and implementing multi-channel communications plans and strategies

• Drafting & selling in press releases and features

• Managing effective client & team relationships

• Researching and report writing

• Planning, organising and attending meetings & events

• Demonstrating a clear understanding of budgets & profitability, managing your client accounts effectively from a resourcing and cost perspective

• Supervising junior members of staff & contributing to their professional development

Salary: up to £35,000.00 PA DOE + benefits

About Liz Lean PR

We are one of the leading PR and communications agencies in the south and have been delivering for clients for 25 years, from our stunning beachside base in Sandbanks with unbeatable views and lifestyle opportunities. We are entering an exciting phase of growth and development and our services are in demand more than ever. We have the privilege of working with leading regional and national brands, across a multitude of sectors, providing the full spectrum of PR and communications solutions.

From healthcare to hospitality, Fintech to theme parks, we get under the skin of each brand, developing bespoke communications strategies which deliver outstanding results for our clients.

Our stunning beachside location is just one of the reasons that LLPR is a great place to work; our focus on personal growth and wellbeing forms the heart of our supportive team culture. We’ve been named finalists in the PRCA Workplace Champions awards for two years running, due to our fantastic culture and dedication to making LLPR an outstanding agency in which to thrive and build a career.

Benefits include:

Tailored professional development roadmaps, including a personal budget for external training and qualifications

Paid-for CIPR membership & CPD plans

Hybrid working model and remote-friendly working practices

Paid-for parking / subsidised public transport, for when you’re in the office

Annual creativity and wellbeing budget to spend how you choose on personal activities, outside of work

Jump on our complimentary paddleboards, roll out a yoga mat, or kick off a game of rounders at our beachside office

Regular team socials : dining out, cocktails, socialising

Dog friendly offices

Your birthday off, each year, and a celebratory drink on us

Wellness initiatives : meditation and yoga apps & classes

Regular team activity weeks : creativity, learning, development & social activities

Milestone celebrations : for the agency and our team members. We love a party!

Regular team-based activities to top up the creative fuel tanks

Mental health first aid training

Healthy snacks and fruit in the office (and treats… we all need them now and then)

Liz Lean PR

MMGY Grifco is a leading public relations firm specialising in international luxury travel and lifestyle PR. It is a creative, boutique, PR company which nurtures the needs of its travel, spa and beauty clients. As part of the MMGY Global family, Grifco’s clients have access to an international communications practice across all marketing channels – providing a holistic and fully integrated solution to marketing needs.

Based in London, we currently have a fantastic fixed-term opportunity for an ambitious, curious and creative Interim PR Account Manager to join our team, covering during a period of maternity leave, to act as a senior contact for clients. Reporting into the Senior Associate Director, The role of the Account Director is to direct their team across clients, ensuring the successful implementation of PR plans and strategy

The primary job duties and responsibilities include:

Client liaison

The Account Director liaises with clients mainly regarding strategy, planning, VIP media and any trouble shooting that may be required, as well as during conference calls and meetings where required by their team.

Team progress and workload

It is important for the Account Director to monitor the workload and progress of their team and report feedback to senior management where necessary. The Account Director allocates tasks amongst the whole team together with the Account Manager.

When needed, take the lead in interviewing for new team members.

Identify skills gaps and training needs amongst the team and present solutions to the senior team.

PR Planning

The Account Director takes charge of creating annual PR plans for clients, thinking strategically and brainstorming ideas for clients together with their team.

Pitching Ideas and Opportunity Generation

You are responsible for leading proactive story pitching at editor level and creating key opportunities for “glory” coverage for your clients, supported by your team.

Building The Database

The Account Director continually makes new media contacts for the agency and keeps front of mind amongst main contacts at key national and glossy outlets.

Group Press Trips

Allocating group press trips amongst the team to ensure staff have a fair amount of travel opportunities and as many members of the team as possible see clients first-hand. Organising and escorting group press trips and new client FAM trips where necessary.

Crisis Management

Taking charge of crisis management as and when issues arrive, directly speaking to client and journalist or advising junior members of staff regarding suitable responses and required action. Escalating to Senior Leadership Team when necessary.

New Business

The Account Director will assist with new business proposal writing and pitch delivery as required by the senior team.

Grow client revenue.

Ensure all work is delivered to the highest quality within the client fee/budget. Monitor and address overservicing to improve capacity for the team. Manage team expectations in terms of salary and benefits, in accordance with annual budgets and client revenue. Provide insights to the senior team for financial forecasting and planning.

About you

At MMGY Global we believe that to go places as a company, we must give others the opportunity to shine. We strive to create a vibrant, open, collaborative work environment where people can be and bring their best selves to work.

• Five years experience in PR or a similar role is required
• Previous knowledge or experience in the travel industry is essential
• Commercial insight – Should have an understanding of each client’s business activities, key issues and competitive advantage and be able to identify opportunities to promote the client and their activities based on these platforms.
• Strategic Thinking – Should be able to identify additional opportunities for delivering the client message outside the standard press release, case study and feature.
• Creative Thinking – Should lead brainstorming sessions and actively explore different avenues for a client based on a particular brief. Should be able to develop engaging and relevant content for social media feeds.
• Time Management – Can manage own workload, set and work to own deadlines.
• Copywriting – Demonstrate good written skills with a true understanding of the client’s brief by effectively communicating the key message in simple, concise copy that is relevant to the reader. It is expected that the line manager/client will make minimal changes to the copy.
• Presentation Skills – Should be articulate and be able to present ideas and proposals to clients, when required. Should be able to communicate with contacts at all levels.
• Trouble Shooting – Client should feel confident that any problem is being given due attention and that immediate action is being taken
• Should demonstrate initiative and ensure that client communications and issues are tackled promptly or a senior person is briefed immediately, so this can be handled as soon as possible.
• Team management – should have experience of managing a team
• Financial management – should have an understanding of how team revenue relates to the success of the business and suggest ways to improve business performance and growth.

This is a fixed-term position covering during maternity leave.

Our industry-leading benefits

• A flexible hybrid work schedule of 3 days in office and 2 days at home
• Generous annual holiday package including 25 days of annual leave, birthday day off (can be taken any day during your month of birth), 2 floating holidays and year-end holiday break over the Christmas period.
• Private medical, life and income protection insurance and pension scheme contribution from the company
• Lively social calendar with numerous activities and events to take part in.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season Ticket Loan
• Industry-exclusive travel perks
• Go Explore! Global Travel Reward Programme: we offer exciting anniversary travel benefits that kick in after 2 years. We want our employees to go see the world – and help pay for it.

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