Account Executive – Strategic Communications & PR

Employment Information
Type
Full Time
Industry
PR
Job status
LIVE, deadline 1st May
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LIVE, deadline 15th May
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LIVE, deadline 5th May
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LIVE, deadline 26th April
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LIVE, deadline 10th April
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LIVE, deadline 30th April
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LIVE, deadline 30th April
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LIVE, deadline 20th May
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 20th May
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 5th May
Level
Any
Updated
16 Apr-2025
Salary
£30,000 + Benefits
Location
Job Description

A fast-paced, creative, and collaborative communications agency is seeking an enthusiastic and curious Account Executive to join its growing team. This award-winning agency works across a broad portfolio of clients, spanning consumer brands, financial services, and national institutions – and is known for delivering standout work that blends insight, creativity, and strategic thinking.

This is an ideal opportunity for a recent graduate or early career professional with six months or more PR or communications experience under their belt – whether that’s through an agency placement, in-house internship, or relevant professional role. The team is looking for someone who understands the general rhythms of working life and is ready to hit the ground running, rather than someone completely new to the world of work.

The Role

As an Account Executive, you’ll be the linchpin of your client teams, supporting the planning and delivery of campaigns, monitoring media, conducting research, and helping keep projects running smoothly. You’ll be exposed to a diverse client mix – one day working on a high-profile consumer campaign, the next engaging with clients in banking, asset management or other financial services sectors.

This role offers real breadth – from shaping social media content and supporting media engagement to monitoring policy shifts and liaising with journalists or influencers. You might be helping tell the stories of Olympic athletes one week and writing briefings for a banking client the next.

The team is keen to bring on someone who is genuinely open-minded, proactive, and inquisitive – someone who’s comfortable saying “yes”, keen to explore new sectors, and excited to build a career in communications. Equally important is a diligent attitude to process and detail – results matter, but so does a thoughtful, thorough approach.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conducting research to support client work and new business efforts
  • Drafting briefing notes, press releases, blog posts, and evaluation reports
  • Monitoring media and social channels for coverage, trends, and opportunities
  • Engaging with journalists and influencers; supporting media sell-ins
  • Helping to plan and organise client events and meetings
  • Managing diaries, timelines, and status documents for client accounts
  • Contributing to team brainstorms and creative ideation sessions
  • Attending client meetings and supporting on calls

About You:

  • Some relevant experience in PR, communications, journalism, or related fields
  • A natural communicator – confident, clear, and collaborative
  • Strong attention to detail, with good time management and organisation
  • Proactive mindset – problem solver who can think on their feet
  • Inquisitive and keen to learn – asks questions, seeks feedback, and takes initiative
  • Familiarity with LinkedIn, X (Twitter), Instagram, and other key social platforms
  • Enthusiastic about current affairs, the media, and how businesses communicate
  • Positive, adaptable, and genuinely team-focused

Why Apply? 

This role offers fantastic exposure, hands-on experience, and the chance to grow quickly in a supportive environment. You’ll learn directly from experienced consultants across corporate, consumer, and financial services campaigns – with plenty of opportunity to contribute, develop, and shape your path.

The agency also has a firm commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion, so we are really interested in hearing from candidates that offer varied perspectives and welcome applications from, the global majority, diverse backgrounds and minority groups.

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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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