PR Account Manager

About Us

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 opportunity for an ambitious, curious and creative PR Account Manager to join our team and act as a senior contact for clients. Reporting into an Account Director, the Account Manager is the key day to day contact for clients and ensures PR activities are carried out seamlessly on a daily basis. Commercially minded and creative in nature, we are looking for someone who is adept at building relationships with key commentators, industry spokespeople and senior journalists.

The Account Manager enjoys building relationships, and their main duties would include;
 

• The Account Manager is the day to day contact for their clients, fielding all requests and carrying them out in a timely manner or delegating to their team to action.
• Leading press release writing, delegating releases to other members of your team where needed, outsourcing where needed, and proof-reading all releases for your clients before they are sent to the client or to senior members at the agency first if you need a second opinion.
• You will frequently pro-actively pitch story ideas to journalists whether over the phone, by email or in person.
• You will also be expected to attend events– a great way of networking and meeting new journalists.
• Overseeing and facilitating the organisation of press trips to your all of your clients.
• Building good relationships with tour operator, tourist board and airline PRs to assist with press trip creation.
• Assisting the Account Director and senior management on the creation of PR plans for your clients where requested.
• Assisting with creative idea generation, target media lists, and time-lines.
• Ensuring your team are active on social media for your clients at all times. Working with JAEs to ensure constant stream of information and activity on all of our social media outlets. 

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.

We are looking for a candidate with relevant experience (at least 3 years in a PR setting). You will have a curiosity and understanding of the UK media and social media landscapes with excellent writing and organisational skills. You will also have to demonstrate an ability to work on your own initiative as well as being a team player.

• Previous knowledge or experience in the travel industry would be beneficial
• Ability to build strong relationships
• Organised with the ability to work to strict deadlines and capable of managing and prioritising the workload
• Ability to work and thrive in a fast-paced environment

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.
• 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave / 4 weeks fully paid caregiver leave
• 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
• Work from Anywhere / Work from Any Office
• 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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