Associate Director – B2B / Corporate PR

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Type
Full Time
Industry
PR
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LIVE, deadline 11th February
Level
Mid Level
Updated
11 Oct-2024
Salary
£65k - £83k
Location
Job Description

We’re looking for an established Associate Director or a Senior Account Director ready to step up, to join a thriving, fast-growing communications agency that specialises in working with disruptive brands and businesses. Known for delivering innovative PR work across consumer, tech, B2B and corporate streams, this agency helps companies establish their place in the market.

They are now looking for a proactive, ambitious, and passionate PR professional to lead and grow its corporate and B2B division.

The Role:

As an associate director, you will be responsible for managing a portfolio of high-value accounts, predominantly within the tech, B2B, and corporate spaces. You’ll be a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, including C-suite executives, offering strategic counsel and ensuring that campaigns not only hit their objectives but that the objectives are right to begin with. You’ll be hands-on in crafting media relations strategies, driving campaign work, and managing the day-to-day client delivery of the press office.

The agency’s key USP is media relations – while others step away from traditional publicity, they are unashamedly specialists in the field, and you will be leading press office functions and campaigns, ensuring everything is delivered smoothly, on time, and crucially, generating the sort of coverage that helps their business. This role requires a hands-on approach, not just overseeing the work but being deeply involved in the strategy and execution.

You’ll also be responsible for developing and mentoring your team, supporting and helping them progress, while fostering an entrepreneurial, high-performance culture. You’ll help team members progress in their careers, offering feedback, guidance, and support, and leading by example in delivering exceptional results. Additionally, reporting directly to the founders, you will play a part in the operational side of the business, including managing client budgets, resourcing, and supporting with new business.

About You:

The ideal candidate will have extensive PR experience, with at least some of this within an agency and be someone who thrives on rolling up their sleeves and getting involved in the work.

You should be passionate about the PR industry, and excited about the opportunity to contribute to a growing agency. You should still enjoy the core aspects of PR – media relations, pitching, and storytelling – and not just want to manage from a distance. This agency puts a lot of trust in its teams and people, so ideally you’ll also thrive on taking ownership of your accounts.

Key attributes include:

  • PR agency experience with a proven track record of managing high-value accounts and delivering exceptional media coverage. In-house experience in addition, is a plus.
  • A proactive and ambitious attitude, always looking for ways to improve, innovate, and push the boundaries.
  • Passionate about the PR industry, with a genuine love for creating impactful campaigns and strategies and delivering real impact for your clients.
  • A hands-on approach, enjoying both managing teams and being involved in the day-to-day work of the accounts.
  • Strong leadership skills, with a track record of mentoring and developing teams, helping them progress in their careers.
  • A commercial mindset, understanding how to balance client needs with agency growth, including budget management and resourcing.
  • Excellent communication skills, able to pitch, present, and build relationships with C-suite stakeholders.

If you’re someone who loves media relations, enjoys developing teams, and is excited by the prospect of building something in a growing agency, this is the perfect role for you.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to apply. The agency enters the PR Week Pay Gap project and cares deeply about equal opportunities and creating a diverse and inclusive workplace.

We will aim to get back to as many applicants as possible. However if you haven’t heard from us within 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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