Employment Information
Type
Full Time
Industry
PR
Job status
LIVE, deadline 24th Sep
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LIVE, deadline 15th Oct
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LIVE, deadline 24th Sep
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LIVE, deadline 15th Oct
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LIVE, deadline 23rd Sep
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LIVE, deadline 20th Oct
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LIVE, deadline 3rd Oct
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LIVE, deadline 15th Oct
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LIVE, deadline 30th Oct
Level
Mid Level
Updated
21 May-2024
Salary
£50k - £65k
Location
Job Description

An award winning independent PR agency, known as a GREAT place to work, is looking for an experienced Account Director to lead on an iconic beer brand among some other FMCG clients. This is a role for someone who thrives in a fast paced, creative environment, delivering exceptional client service and impactful, integrated campaigns.

If you have a passion for lifestyle and FMCG brands, want to feel part of a growing, culture first integrated agency and you love experiential marketing, and brand activations, read on.

The Role: As Account Director, you will manage high-profile clients, including a leading beer brand, overseeing their event and activation-based campaigns. Your role will include leveraging partnerships with talent, media, and on-trade partners to deliver brand experiences that move the needle. You will have the opportunity to work on a variety of further accounts, collaborating with a talented and creative team known for producing award winning results.

There is less of a press office focus on these clients, however an understanding of news hijacking, reactive stories and more crucially, the ability to pitch in regular insight and strong features would be preferable.

Otherwise you will be a great client handler and be great at navigating brand campaigns seamlessly. You’ll need to have strong cultural awareness and an established network of media contacts to broker meaningful partnerships that align with clients’ brand goals. Your ability to secure brand and media partnerships and execute experiential campaigns will be a big plus in this role.

You will lead a team, including an Account Manager and an Account Executive, providing mentorship and ensuring the smooth running of client accounts. The agency is a really collaborative environment, and you’ll be working across teams with social and influencer experts to deliver integrated campaigns.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Leadership: Develop and implement strategic campaigns for clients, ensuring alignment with business objectives and delivering measurable results.
  • Partnerships & Events: Manage brand activations and broker media partnerships, overseeing high-quality on-site event delivery.
  • Client Management: Build and maintain strong client relationships, providing strategic counsel and ensuring high levels of satisfaction and retention.
  • Team Leadership: Mentor and develop junior team members, fostering a culture of creativity and excellence.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with social and influencer teams to integrate campaigns across multiple platforms.
  • New Business Development: Support business growth through pitching and securing new client projects.

The Ideal Candidate: You will ideally already be working as an Account Director, with strong experience in the lifestyle and FMCG sectors, and a proven ability to manage experiential campaigns. You’ll have a deep understanding of cultural trends, a broad network of contacts, and experience brokering partnerships with influencers and media. Exceptional organisational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects are essential.

You’ll also be a strategic thinker, confident in presenting ideas, and have a collaborative mindset, working seamlessly with internal teams to deliver integrated campaigns. Festival and event experience is a plus.

Why Join? This is a fantastic opportunity for an ambitious Account Director to work with high-profile clients, leading exciting, culturally relevant campaigns. The agency is known for its collaborative, creative environment, and offers excellent opportunities for career progression.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply, the agency cares deeply about equal opportunities and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, and has been an ever present in the PR Week Pay Gap project.

We will aim to get back to as many applicants as possible. However if you haven’t heard from us in seven days, your application has not been successful this time.

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Darain Faraz

Darain’s aversion to confined spaces took root during a fateful screening of ‘Buried,’ a film that immerses its audience in the gripping horror of a man awakening to find himself entombed alive. This intense fear of tight space has left an indelible mark on him. Beyond his mild-claustrophobic tendencies, Darain is also Co-founder of People Like Us, and former Director of Marketing at jobs behemoth LinkedIn internationally. Before his decade+ at LinkedIn, he resided in Australia where he ran comms for WWF’s Earth Hour, and MySpace (remember them?). He’s a regular on Marketing Week + PR Week top 100, has won a raft of industry recognition including the coveted Cannes Lions. But he’s more than his titles and his accolades, he’s a die-hard Kylie Minogue fan too. He has three lively kids and lives in Fiji (yup, you read that right). He also likes to take his shirt off at regular intervals (check out his ‘gram… or better still – don’t).

Mike Levaggi

What could be scarier than being stuck in a toilet cubicle with a wasp nest? Not much for our founder Mike (maybe having his face on a website) but definitely not making our industry fairer. He’s a northerner with Irish and Italian roots. In his 15 years in PR, he’s been a Senior Director of Assembly, head of consumer comms at Snap and a tech & gaming lead at Hope&Glory PR, winning over 50 industry awards. He’s also a former recruiter, the founder of the One Percent diversity initiative and co-founder of the PR Week Pay Gap Project. He’s been called a lot of things, but he’d call himself a problem solver. 

Sheeraz Gulsher

Sheeraz has both a fear and deep fascination of life after death. To face it, he’s taking solace by learning about the origin of world religions and reading the (not so) comforting words of many philosophers. Bit deep, but he’ll be fine, we promise.

Beyond his flirting with existential crises, Sheeraz is co-founder of People Like Us, the award winning non-profit that celebrates and supports professionals from underrepresented backgrounds in journalism, PR and the creative industries. Sheeraz is also an award winning PR professional with over a decade of experience both in-house at Snapchat and Sky, and at agencies including Hope&Glory and PrettyGreen. Sheeraz is a passionate campaigner for equal pay for ethnically diverse working professionals in the UK. He will often mention the one time someone said his celebrity lookalike is Riz Ahmed but in actual fact, he looks more like Bruno Fernandes (minus the sass). Top geezer all round.

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