PR Account Director Jobs
Account Director
Job Title: Account Director
Salary: ?42 - ?45k
Job Code: VP4037
- Previous experience at account/senior account manager level within a technology agency
- Excellent attention to detail
- Proven writing and presentation skills
- Creative thinking
- Understanding of client business issues and requirements
- Thorough knowledge of media: print and broadcast
- Ability to motivate and lead a team
- Experience of managing budgets and resources
- Calmness under pressure and ability to achieve tight deadlines
- Confident communication skills who can instil client confidence
- Management of the overall client relationship, especially during the initial period to ensure that strategy, messages and objectives are correctly established
- Skilled in crisis management
- Support New Business in pitches, ideas creation and networking
Job Title: Senior Account Manager/Account Director
Salary: 35,000 - 42,000
Job Code: VP4028
This highly ranked , top 50 full service PR agency, with clients spanning some of the biggest names across the consumer global marketplace, has a fantastic opportunity for a dynamic PR Senior Account Manager/PR Account Director to join their results focused consumer/lifestyle team.
You will be working across a mix of their consumer, lifestyle, fashion and drinks brands, so experience in a mixture of some or all of these sectors would be highly desirable.
Other key skills and attributes:
· Strong, creative campaigns experience
· PR experience from an agency environment
· Strong people management skills with the ability to drive, inspire and nurture your teams whilst making sure the client gets excellent service
· Highly adept at new business pitches & presentations
· Excellent communication and writing skills
· Proven and established media contacts across all channels
· Solid understanding of clients’ business, the market place and the issues affecting them
· A real knowledge of the importance of social media and blogger communications
· Great organisational skills and an attitude where nothing is too much trouble
A salary of between £35 – 42k is being offered.
Job Title: Senior Account Manager/Account Director
Salary: 35,000 - 45,000
Job Code: VP4023
Top-performing PR agency based in Central London is seeking a PR Senior Account Manager/Account Director to work across their ethical and consumer healthcare clients.
Key skills and experience:
- Agency experience in ethical (international or UK), pharmaceutical, product PR or diagnostics is essential
- Excellent writing skills
- Experience in proposal writing and new business pitches
- Strong media relations
- Good account and team management
- You should have a hands-on, proactive approach
- Be commercially aware, as you will be managing the profitability of your accounts
Job Title: Account Director
Salary: 45k + bens
Job Code: VP4013
An integrated PR agency with a specialism in FS/Healthcare & big Consumer campaigns are looking for a PR Account Director/PR Associate Director with personal / consumer finance and /or intermediary financial brand experience being an absolute must.
- Min of 2-3 years experience at AD level - in agency. In house experience will be considered but must have worked in an agency as well
- Proven experience of issues management and thought leadership
- Excellent written and presentation skills, track record in achieving media coverage and real knowledge of the business media with an acute understanding of brand building.
- Experience of creating and driving results driven PR campaigns
- Solid media relations skills and strong journalist contacts across trade and consumer media, print and online
- Team management experience
- Some financial services sector experience is essential - other experience within associated sectors will be considered in addition
- Someone who is a team player, hungry for results, brave and creative
- Good strategically and able to develop and implement PR campaigns as part of an integrated programme, able to drive business (both organically and new business)
Job Title: Account Manager/Account Director
Salary: 30,000 - 40,000
Job Code: VP4008
A PR Account Manager/Account Director with a particular track record in delivering Digital campaigns is being sought to join one of London's leading boutique agencies to work with a list of established clients that are instantly recognisable spanning consumer, corporate and FMCG sectors.
- Be well versed in all things social media related (FB, Twitter, Blogger engagement etc)
- Be a strong writer and communicator
- Love the buzz of delivering to brief on social media campaigns
- Be creative and enthusiastic
- Work well in a team and have proof of managing a team to deliver on a campaign
- An excellent client handler with great presentation skills
- Be prepared to pitch for social media areas of new business
Job Title: PR Account Director
Salary: 35-50k
Job Code: VP4006
Award-winning West London PR agency with a client focus across film, tv, dvd and big brand project campaign work is looking to hire an experienced PR Account Director or a rising star Senior Account Manager to join an established team who have built up an enviable reputation for working on projects that have garnered them award nominations, mass media coverage and experiential stunts that are inventive & most of all, capture the imagination.
" You must be highly adept at new business pitches, and developing existing client relationships.
" Clients cross over entertainment, music, TV, games, publishing, consumer brands
" The ideal candidate will have an excellent knowledge of relevant UK online media and top-level contacts within these outlets as well as established tabloid/print media contacts.
" You will be social media savvy and have a really good understanding of the evolving digital landscape. You will be able to demonstrate the effectiveness of online PR to existing and potential new clients, as well as helping the agency stay at the forefront of digital innovation and trends.
" You will be structured and organized
" Used to working within a strategic guideline
" Have previous working knowledge across high end campaigns
" An inspiring team leader able to encourage and motivate
" Able to adapt quickly to new projects
This independent agency will offer a different environment to the large agencies, more hands on and intimate, with everyone working closely to continue providing their clients
With strong campaign creations and high impact implementation. This is a great opportunity to take your career in to a different sphere and be well rewarded for your efforts.
Salary between 35-50k
Job Title: Senior Account Manager/Account Director
Salary: 36,000 - 40,000
Job Code: VP4017
This relatively new PR agency has already won an armful of awards and is on a rapid rise which is why they are now looking for a PR Account Director/Snr Account Manager who is really strong on the publicity side, so potentially from an entertainment or consumer background who can develop strategy and generate great ideas and high level coverage, specifically for their media and arts brands as well as their blue chip and drinks brands. Experience of running strong consumer campaigns is therefore an advantage.
- A talented and experienced individual with very strong publicity skills to manage and generate high level publicity for this agencies media brands
- The role will be to work alongside the Head of Publicity to manage a team of five, being personally responsible for the more junior PR team that support on bigger brands.
- Art / cultural experience an advantage as would be managing clients across their growing arts division
- Good broadcast experience and contacts would be an advantage due to the TV and radio element to PRing print and online publications.
- Strategy and some high level activation for big consumer brands would also be required to generate lifestyle, event and celebrity led coverage across well known brands
- Confident writer & communicator
- The role would also have a creative publicist element, with the candidate working with the team to develop PR stories, angles and stunts for current clients and new business pitches.
- Some previous celeb pr experience would be useful but not essential.
Job Title: Senior Consultants - Account Directors
Salary: DOE
Job Code: VP3997
Established Senior PR Consultants are urgently required for this award-winning London communications consultancy that leads strategic thinking in corporate, financial, brand and behavioural change. With a reputation for campaigns backed by strong intellect and passionate creativity they work with a high profile client list from both the public and private sector. A track record in handling blue chip corporate clients would be preferable. You should be a driven innovative thinker, be able to lead and win new business, possess strong networking and client counseling skills, capable of providing robust strategic advice and insight, strong financial mgt and capable of leading teams.
Job Title: Account Director
Salary: 40,000 - 46,000
Job Code: VP3986
A consumer focused PR Account director is urgently required to join one of the leading consumer teams within an award winning, full service PR agency. You will be working with the Food & Drink and FMCG team on some of their key accounts including an iconic, global brand.
Key skills:
- FMCG - Food experience highly desirable
- Large agency experience, working in a large matrixed team
- Team player/leader
- Excellent writer with high attention to detail
- Flair for communicating positively with a large group of people
- Ability to make a creative contribution
- Understanding of digital channels and trends and how they impact communications strategy
- Adept at time management
- Strong people management skills with the ability to drive, inspire and nurture your teams whilst making sure the client gets excellent service
- Solid understanding of clients' business, the market place and the issues affecting them
- Actively contribute to new business as well as seeking opportunities to organically grow existing business.
This is a fantastic opportunity to really progress your PR career in the Consumer and FMCG sectors especially in upper management and to work with some fantastic clients within an agency that really promotes and encourages a great work/life structure and offer many superb perks along with a great salary & benefits package.
Job Title: PR Account Director
Salary: 40 - 45k
Job Code: VP3978
This mid sized PR Agency is part of a larger Global network and they now have an opening for a PR Account Director to take on a busy and varied role across a range of B2B clients in sectors including digital marketing, mobile comms and research. Some financial services/personal finance experience (b2b) would be advantageous, as the role is likely to include at least one PF client.
This role requires a thoughtful, articulate, confident communicator who is adept at providing strategic client counsel and can manage and motivate team members. Advanced media relations skills are a must for this role. Around 5 years PR experience is essential, along with a good understanding of digital/social media. The successful candidate will be expected to work with a degree of autonomy and look to drive accounts forward, over and above managing campaigns.
Job Title: Account Director
Salary: 42,000 - 45,000
Job Code: VP3969
An integrated PR agency based in
Key Skills
- Strong account management skills – client counsel, project direction & delivery, budgetary management, sound judgement, uses initiative, good evaluation skills etc
- Excellent verbal & written communication
- Excellent presentation skills
- Creative and impeccable writing skills (for press releases, presentations, client counsel etc)
- Outstanding strategic vision and understanding
- Strong media relations skills - the ability to engage with journalists over the phone and in person and really ‘sell-in’ an idea or campaign
- Good understanding of
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent organisation and administration skills
- Ability to deliver creative thinking - brainstorms and campaign development
- Good financial skills managing large budgets
- Good people management skills
This is a fantastic opportunity to really progress your PR career, work with some amazing clients and reap some really great rewards including a competitive salary and bonus structure.
Job Title: Account Director
Salary: 45,000
Job Code: VP3334
This award-winning, creative and entrepreneurial-spirited PR consultancy that specialises in driving recommendations for brands is looking for a consumer PR Account Director who is adept at team management, can grow the business and be part of a challenging, motivated and enthusiastic division. You should have experience in consumer big brand account handling with proven brand development success, have an agency background, be a strong leader but also a hands -on approach. This is your chance to move into a free-thinking, flexible and non-heirarchical environment that rewards outstanding achievements.
Job Title: PR Account Director
Salary: 40,000 - 45,000
Job Code: VP3929
Due to exceptional growth this award-winning West London global PR consultancy with particular expertise in digital media relations and working on premium and emerging consumer technology and health brands is looking for a PR Account Director with an in-depth understanding of the technology, enterprise and medical device marketplaces. This agency thrives on working in an entrepreneurial culture and has a team comprised of passionate and creative PR professionals, who partner their clients to deliver inspired, strategic and fully measureable communications campaigns. You will be responsible for campaign direction, client handling, PR planning, team development and new business, a confident leader who thrives on mentoring the PR team, encourages a true go-get media culture and drives the standard of work across the business. Client Directors work closely with the management team to accelerate all new business and marketing successes. The client director will also set up and advise on strategy for pan-European accounts, so previous experience within this area would hugely beneficial. An enviable salary package is available to the right candidate.
