PR Account Director | Award-Winning PR Agency | London

PR Account Director | Award-Winning PR Agency | London

The Client

Harmonic are proud to be working with one of UK’s leading technology PR agencies in the search for a PR Account Director to join their team in the London offices. The agency has strong expertise on working with global, start-up and scale-up technology brands, working on a range of sectors including Fintech, Consumer & Enterprise Tech, and Communications & Cloud. They’re currently working with one of the top 3 internationally successful technology businesses and expecting another 4 global accounts to be signed off before the new year. They are looking for an Account Director with talent and ambition who has at least 4 years’ experience in comms.

The agency describes their culture as compassionate and collaborative, with an emphasis on inclusion and a flat structure. They provide a huge amount of support for employees to progress rapidly in their career and have a direct impact on the companies success. 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
• Having a direct impact on the company

Required Experience

• 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 (depending on experience)

Location: London

Please get in touch at [email protected], or at 0161 511 8385.

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