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R Director – Fashion (9 month rolling contract)

London hybrid working

£60-£70K pro rata

Company

My client is an award-winning boutique communications agency specialising in the Fashion and Beauty sector, and they are now on the lookout for an experienced Fashion Director PR to support the business during maternity leave. They have a diverse client base of luxury and high-street fashion brands and work with some of the most well-known and innovative brands in the world.

The Fashion Director PR will play and leading role in all clients across the Fashion side of the business. You will be hands-on and lead a team of experts across 360 campaign support. You will have demonstrable pr experience in a client-facing role and can juggle a number of clients and projects at one time. You will be working with and leading a world-class team, you can look forward to creating and delivering effective PR and integrated communications strategies, securing coverage, ideating interesting and creative onsite content, stakeholder profile building, and generating online exposure for a portfolio of national and international brands, as well as contributing to the overall businesses growth and success.

This agency is known for its amazing empowering culture which is focused on having a happy creative and ideas-driven team who are passionate about the work they do. You will work in a family feel environment where everyone supports each other, and you will be led by 2 founders who come from pr both in-house and agency side and can understand your reality. Your personal and team achievements will be recognised and rewarded through incentives, team bonding days out, and trips away. You will enjoy plenty of staff incentives such as traveling to some of the best cities in the world for amazing events and launches. You get free goodies and samples on a regular basis to keep you updated and in the loop on trends.

Key Responsibilities

• Take the lead on a team and develop award-winning campaigns with the PR and Content teams.
• Build relationships with key journalists and sell in headline-grabbing campaigns to press.
• Write press releases and sell-in stories to relevant media.
• Attend client meetings and present monthly performance decks.
• Developing long-term relationships with bloggers, journalists, writers, and influencers.
• Engaging in a variety of digital PR-driven activities including asset outreach, reactive & proactive pitching, and influencer marketing.
• Creating concise client-facing documents including reports and content pitches.
• Bring an innovative approach, ready to bring fresh ideas and new methods to the team.
• Take responsibility for the department’s hours of planning and performance.
• Ensure that outreach techniques and end results are the industry’s best.
• Support knowledge sharing and a culture of learning within the team.

About you

• At least 6-7 years of proven commercial PR experience ideally within a high street fashion brand or agency side fashion experience.
• Experience in leading a team in creating engaging and entertaining outreach campaigns using data and content.
• Be able to show a portfolio of campaigns that have been featured in high-domain authority sites.
• Have experience in leading Digital PR campaigns, from ideation to execution.
• A strong understanding of the fundamentals of PR and SEO and how they integrate.
• Developing long-term relationships with bloggers, journalists, writers, and influencers.
• Attending client-facing meetings and presentations, enabling the team’s success in pitches.
• An excellent communicator, both written and verbal.
• The ability to multi-task, meet deadlines and work under pressure.
• A degree in PR, journalism, marketing, advertising or similar is advantageous.

Benefits

• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Plus one day ‘duvet day’ for your birthday!
• We have a huge away day each year (it’s big and will smash any other work party!)
• Flexible remote working – to be in the office 1-2 days a week/when needed.
• A healthy new business reward should a brand be brought in and retained for 4 months
• Opportunity to travel to some of the world’s most exciting cities, Paris, Cannes, Milan, Berlin, LA, NY and more…

Salt

ABC News

Our client, a well known luxury brand in NYC, is looking for a PR Assistant to join their team temporarily!

Responsibilities:

• Maintain PR Sample Showroom
• Assist with Stylist Appointments
• Pull and track samples through Fashion GPS
• Working with PR team on day-to-day editorial requests
• Preparing editorial / social media clippings
• Researching current industry news and trends
• Researching relevant editors, influencers and VIP talent based on specific client projects and needs
• Searching for influencer and talent placements on social media as well as photo agency websites
• Assist with VIP seeding initiatives and rollout
• Assist PR Coordinator with day to day office duties
• Assisting on monthly reporting
• Maintain and update VIP Database

Requirements:

• Self driven, detail-oriented, and punctual with excellent communication skills.
• Degree in PR, Communications, Fashion, Marketing or related field.
• 1-3 years of relevant work experience

Please submit your resume for consideration.

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Fourth Floor

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

£50-55K – (Pro-Rata for 4 day week, so £40-44K) – One of London’s larger lifestyle PR agencies of choice are, due to a number of exciting new business wins, seeking to expand with a strong Account Director to join their amazing Food & Restaurant team. Working across a variety of luxury food, hospitality brands and locations/venues, all of which you’ll be lucky enough to experience yourself.

Your clients will be some of the most well known, up and coming brands and venues across London and Europe, you’ll have the opportunity to entertain journalists to develop contacts as well as attend and support high profile events and parties in the fashion, music and film worlds.

The Candidate

• PR experience agency side in food or hospitality sector at Account Director level or very experienced at Senior Account Manager level.
• Excellent network of food, consumer, lifestyle press contacts.
• Strong time management skills.
• Dynamic, confident personality.
• Ability to manage and mentor junior colleagues.
• A passion for food, and hospitality 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 £50-55K.
• 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

ABC News

Our client, an exciting contemporary fashion brand, is looking for an Art Director to join their team full time.

Ideal candidates come from fashion or beauty background and have experience managing a team.

Responsibilities include:

• Art Direction, Brand development and Strategy – Participate in strategy meetings and partner with merchandising and creative teams to translate business strategy into creative concepts and compelling content
• Brand Packaging
• Photoshoot production, Budget Management, Content Management
• Image Management – Manage art direction for all retail web images including: image selects, cropping and site merchandising
• Provide direction on retail photo shoots, including on poses, styling and retouching

This role located in Venice, CA

Hybrid

Direct Hire, Salaried

100-115K

24 Seven Talent

Fashion Dive is looking for ambitious, curious and creative journalists who are excited to join Industry Dive’s newest publication. Be part of a collaborative team covering the innovative fashion and apparel industry.

In this role, you will make an immediate impact as we launch the daily publication, helping us shape coverage as you report on a wide-range of topics, from evolving sourcing strategy to the rise of machine learning in business operations. As part of your regular responsibilities, you will report and write quick-turn news briefs as well as feature-length stories.

You will own your beat by cultivating relationships with key stakeholders and consistently staying on top of important developments through a variety of online and other resources. You will pitch and report original stories on a daily basis.

You will also have some regular editing responsibilities. This position reports to the lead editor.

When applying please provide one or two clips of your work that you are particularly proud of!

Qualifications

• A proven track record of strong writing and reporting skills
• Deep curiosity about the apparel and manufacturing space
• Familiarity with business journalism and ability to interpret business concepts
• Aptitude for building source relationships to advance original reporting
• Experience pitching to and working collaboratively with an editor
• Ability to write under deadline in a fast-paced news environment
• At least 3 years of experience in journalism

We’d love it if you had the following:

• A year or more experience covering the fashion and apparel industry
• Strong track record of writing enterprise features that go beyond the news and advance broader narratives
• Familiarity with company creation, venture capital and the initial public offering process
• Familiarity with publishing daily or weekly email newsletters

Additional Information

The salary range for this role is $61,625 – $80,000 based on experience.

Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above, and that’s OK — we still want to hear from you.Industry Dive strives to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment, and applicants who belong to traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Industry Dive is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

If you feel comfortable doing so please feel free to note which pronouns you use in your application (for example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, ze/zir/zirs, etc.)

Industry Dive will not be able to sponsor applicants for work visas.

Curinos

Fashion Dive is looking for ambitious, curious and creative journalists who are excited to join Industry Dive’s newest publication. Be part of a collaborative team covering the innovative fashion and apparel industry.

In this role, you will make an immediate impact as we launch the daily publication, helping us shape coverage as you report on a wide-range of topics, from evolving sourcing strategy to the rise of machine learning in business operations. As part of your regular responsibilities, you will report and write quick-turn news briefs as well as feature-length stories.

You will own your beat by cultivating relationships with key stakeholders and consistently staying on top of important developments through a variety of online and other resources. You will pitch and report original stories on a daily basis.

You will also have some regular editing responsibilities. This position reports to the lead editor.

When applying please provide one or two clips of your work that you are particularly proud of!

Qualifications

• A proven track record of strong writing and reporting skills
• Deep curiosity about the apparel and manufacturing space
• Familiarity with business journalism and ability to interpret business concepts
• Aptitude for building source relationships to advance original reporting
• Experience pitching to and working collaboratively with an editor
• Ability to write under deadline in a fast-paced news environment
• At least 3 years of experience in journalism

We’d love it if you had the following:

• A year or more experience covering the fashion and apparel industry
• Strong track record of writing enterprise features that go beyond the news and advance broader narratives
• Familiarity with company creation, venture capital and the initial public offering process
• Familiarity with publishing daily or weekly email newsletters

Additional Information

The salary range for this role is $61,625 – $80,000 based on experience.

Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above, and that’s OK — we still want to hear from you.Industry Dive strives to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment, and applicants who belong to traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Industry Dive is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

If you feel comfortable doing so please feel free to note which pronouns you use in your application (for example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, ze/zir/zirs, etc.)

Industry Dive will not be able to sponsor applicants for work visas.

Taylor & Francis Group

Fashion Dive is looking for ambitious, curious and creative journalists who are excited to join Industry Dive’s newest publication. Be part of a collaborative team covering the innovative fashion and apparel industry.

In this role, you will make an immediate impact as we launch the daily publication, helping us shape coverage as you report on a wide-range of topics, from evolving sourcing strategy to the rise of machine learning in business operations. As part of your regular responsibilities, you will report and write quick-turn news briefs as well as feature-length stories.

You will own your beat by cultivating relationships with key stakeholders and consistently staying on top of important developments through a variety of online and other resources. You will pitch and report original stories on a daily basis.

You will also have some regular editing responsibilities. This position reports to the lead editor.

When applying please provide one or two clips of your work that you are particularly proud of!

Qualifications

• A proven track record of strong writing and reporting skills
• Deep curiosity about the apparel and manufacturing space
• Familiarity with business journalism and ability to interpret business concepts
• Aptitude for building source relationships to advance original reporting
• Experience pitching to and working collaboratively with an editor
• Ability to write under deadline in a fast-paced news environment
• At least 3 years of experience in journalism

We’d love it if you had the following:

• A year or more experience covering the fashion and apparel industry
• Strong track record of writing enterprise features that go beyond the news and advance broader narratives
• Familiarity with company creation, venture capital and the initial public offering process
• Familiarity with publishing daily or weekly email newsletters

Additional Information

The salary range for this role is $61,625 – $80,000 based on experience.

Not all candidates will check all of the requirements listed above, and that’s OK — we still want to hear from you.Industry Dive strives to provide an inclusive and welcoming environment, and applicants who belong to traditionally underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

Industry Dive is an equal opportunity employer and we strongly encourage people of color, LGBTQIA individuals, veterans, parents, and individuals with disabilities to apply.

If you feel comfortable doing so please feel free to note which pronouns you use in your application (for example – she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs, ze/zir/zirs, etc.)

Industry Dive will not be able to sponsor applicants for work visas.

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