Senior Account Director / Associate Director – Creative Consumer PR Agency

Employment Information
Type
Full Time
Industry
PR
Job status
LIVE, deadline 10th June
Job status
LIVE, deadline 18th June
Job status
LIVE, deadline 20th June
Job status
LIVE, deadline 17th June
Job status
LIVE, deadline 20th May
Job status
LIVE, deadline 22nd June
Job status
LIVE, deadline 15th June
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 17th June
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 17th May
Job Status:
LIVE, deadline 15th May
Level
Any
Updated
14 May-2025
Salary
£68K - £75K
Location
Job Description

Are you a senior operator who still loves the buzz of a media moment? Do you thrive in a fast-paced, creative agency environment, leading work that makes headlines and delivers for some of the biggest and boldest consumer brands?

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Account Director or Associate Director to join a high-energy, award-winning PR agency that’s shaking up the consumer space. With a killer client list spanning food, drink, hospitality and lifestyle, this is an opportunity to lead genuinely exciting campaigns that cut through culture, drive real results and don’t sit on the shelf.

About the role

You’ll be the strategic lead across a portfolio of high-profile consumer accounts, with work that spans earned media, influencer partnerships, cultural storytelling and integrated campaigns. You’ll manage a talented team, set the bar on delivery, and help shape the future of the agency as it continues to grow at pace.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You’ll be on the ground with your teams, in the room with clients, and at the heart of creative thinking, not just overseeing from above.

What you’ll be doing

  • Leading flagship consumer accounts across food, drink, hospitality and lifestyle
  • Acting as a senior counsel to clients, driving strategy and day-to-day performance
  • Overseeing campaign development and delivery, from press office to partnerships
  • Leading and mentoring a brilliant team of AEs, AMs and ADs
  • Managing budgets, scopes, and contributing to wider commercial growth
  • Owning influencer and talent strategy and delivery, from brief to contract
  • Bringing energy and leadership to the team, and helping set the tone for the agency’s culture
  • Staying plugged into what’s new, what’s next and what matters in culture, media and comms

About you

  • You’re a senior PR pro with agency experience and a proven track record in creative consumer work
  • You have excellent team leadership skills and love developing people
  • You bring strong commercial awareness and confidence managing budgets and client growth
  • You’ve worked on big, integrated campaigns, and ideally across multiple markets
  • You’re just as happy in a brainstorm as you are in a boardroom
  • You understand talent, influencer and culture partnerships inside-out
  • You keep up with what’s relevant, not just what’s trending

Bonus points if you have

  • Experience with global toolkits or multi-market campaigns
  • A background in food, drink, hospitality or delivery
  • A black book of media and influencer contacts
  • A radar for what’s culturally interesting, current and cool

Sound like you?

This is a rare chance to step into a leadership role in a thriving, independent agency where great work and good people come first. You’ll work on household names, creative campaigns and with a team that genuinely loves what they do.

Get in touch to find out more. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

We’re also open to people looking for a fixed term contract role, as well as permanent.

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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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