Public Relations Account Director

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 5th Nov
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LIVE, deadline 30th Oct
Level
Any
Updated
15 Apr-2024
Salary
£50K - £53K
Location
Job Description

Are you a highly organised PR Account Director with brilliant attention to detail? Do you have a knack for multitasking and can effortlessly manage multiple client accounts simultaneously? Do you have a love for technology and get joy in seeing coverage? Are you a press office maestro, apt at spotting new opportunities and with the media relations skills to get your clients everywhere?

Do you want to work somewhere where you are encouraged to maintain your contacts, and get hands on with the work, rather than just directing it? If so, this could be the role for you.

You don’t necessarily need to have technology PR experience, though it’s helpful. This role better suits a real consumer PR lover, who has the nous and contacts to drive lifestyle and consumer PR coverage.

The role is at the small, but growing consumer practice of a multi-award winning and fast growing technology PR agency, with great clients and a fantastic culture.

The agency has a commitment to excellence (and diversity), and is one of the go to names for technology brands across corporate, B2B and consumer. The work includes a lot of media relations, great event opportunities, getting to know brilliant influencers and has a fast paced press office. The clients include some of the top names in audio, home entertainment, gadgets and white goods.

They offer great benefits, including agile working, bespoke training, private healthcare, season ticket loans, health services like Calm, gym subsidies, yoga, cycle to work, and a bonus scheme. They also try and keep the team culturally active, with monthly events and an annual off-site abroad. This is an agency that doesn’t just preach a great culture, but lives it, and really looks after their staff.

As an Account Director, you will play a pivotal role in the team, overseeing a portfolio of 4-5 consumer accounts while occasionally dipping your toe into B2B work. This will be a key position, leading the account team day-to-day and reporting into an Associate Director, you will be a trusted pair of hands with the client and responsible for managing an extremely busy and proactive press office. Your role will encompass a wide range of responsibilities across client management, communication, creativity, agency culture, and new business.

Key duties will involve:

  • Be a trusted advisor and consultant to your client
  • Manage and oversee a busy product loans program
  • Drive organic growth opportunities with clients
  • Leading the team to ensure best in class press office work
  • Help build and maintain the team’s growing influencer and social work
  • Work into creative teams and agency leadership to support new business and client plans
  • Ensure a frictionless service for your clients, making sure work delivered by the team is of a high standard and on time
  • Troubleshoot with clients and solve problems
  • Lead by example and making sure the team performs to the best of their ability
  • Develop members of your team, and champion their progress
  • Maintain high standards in reporting and
  • Live the company’s values and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion
  • Manage and support the mental wellbeing of the team

At this agency, they truly believe in empowering talent and providing opportunities for growth. If you’re ready to take your career to the next level, and want to be part of an award winning agency with a great culture, apply now.

We will try to get back to as many people as possible, but if you don’t hear from us within one week from sending your application, you unfortunately haven’t 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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