Senior Account Executive

Employment Information
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Full Time
Industry
PR
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LIVE, deadline 10th February
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LIVE, deadline 10th February
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LIVE, deadline 11th February
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LIVE, deadline 11th February
Level
Any
Updated
22 Jan-2025
Salary
£30,000 - £32,000
Location
Job Description

Broadcast PR – Senior Account Executive

Are you an SAE looking to progress to the next step? Do you love broadcast media, making an impact, the hustle of getting coverage, seeing results and building relationships? Does broadcast PR float your boat, or have you already got experience in it? Or do you just LOVE publicity and picking up the phones? Do you want to create and be part of some of the campaigns that the whole country ends up hearing, seeing and talking about?

If so, read on, as we are looking for a hungry, proactive and down-to-earth future star to join the ranks of arguably the best broadcast agency in the business.

The Agency

Our client is a full service broadcast consultancy. It is a key strategic partner to the biggest brands and agencies in the UK and is responsible for delivering award winning broadcast work, with over 40 gongs to their name in their short history. It’s a medium sized, lovely team, with a great office space and a really entrepreneurial mindset. The agency takes its work seriously, but not itself, and it lives up to its values, emphasising responsiveness, agility, collaboration, and straightforward communication.

It also challenges the status quo, and delivers impact for clients, but also does a little good along the way.

It has a charity initiative aiming to use the power of broadcast to deliver a positive impact for clients, our industry and their people through pro bono work.

You:

Ultimately, you’ll be a hungry and proactive individual with some solid PR and publicity experience under your belt. You’ll be a team player and someone who is results driven. Entrepreneurial flair and ambition, but with a good sense of fun will help here too. You’ll need to demonstrate proficiency in the core PR skills, client relationship management and building, providing strong consultancy, crafting compelling broadcast advisories and research questions, and generally spinning a lot of plates at the same time.

Media Engagement and Outreach:

You’ll be expected to initiate and conduct strategic outreach efforts, pitching broadcast advisories via phone and email to captivate journalists’ interest in clients’ narratives.

You’ll also need to be a contact building extraordinaire, cultivating relationships with media, broadening the agency’s database with new connections, and manage schedules for broadcast days.

You’ll be expected to help manage studio sessions, fostering a calm, happy and organised environment for both clients and spokespeople.

Finally, you’ll be expected to make sure media coverage goes over to the client perfectly, and help to manage juniors on your team to deliver their best work.

Project and Client Management

You’ll be a project management extraordinaire able to keep everyone on track.

With an oversight of everything, you’ll be the one making sure everyone knows their role and delivers on time. The project should seem seamless to clients and you’ll be the person ensuring the least friction, and maintaining great client relationships through timely updates and a positive outlook and approach.

Business Growth and Leadership Development:

This role would suit a self-starter that wants to constantly develop. As you mature in the role, you’ll get better at managing up and down, proactively identifying and communicating resource concerns to line management and resource leads.

You’ll engage in forward planning to discern opportunities for client growth, participate in ongoing training initiatives and pursue personal development opportunities.

If this sounds like you, and you feel that you want to help build engaging narratives that dominate the news, please get in touch.

We are really interested in hearing from candidates that offer varied perspectives and welcome those from diverse backgrounds and minority groups.

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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