Job: Press & PR Manager, Communications Management

Employer: Communications Management
Posted: 09 May 2008
Reference: ENT1
Contact: Jane Horner
Location: St Albans
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
Position: Press & PR Manager
Salary: up to £40k

Press & PR Manager - Business and Corporate PR – up to £40k + bens

THE COMPANY

We’re an innovative issues-based pr consultancy Working with some of the UK’s leading business, Education and Government organisations.

Expansion and growth mean we’re looking for new people to join our award-winning teams working in St Albans and near Cambridge.

THE ROLE

We are seeking a Press & PR Manager with a strong track record in securing media coverage in the national and trade media who wants to take the next step in their career.

You will join a team that works day-to-day with business, management and other specialist journalists to generate news and feature coverage for our clients: major government agencies, professional service firms and some of the leading brands in business services.

You will also manage campaigns using tactics from across the marketing communications mix.

The key aspects of the role are:

Managing client relationships: acting as a trusted adviser for our clients on media and pr issues
Planning and managing client programmes: putting together PR plans to deliver on our clients’ objectives
Supporting strategy development: generating ideas to support corporate positioning of our clients
Delivering media relations programmes: gathering success, stories, feature ideas and exciting news about projects to place in the media
Working as part of a team of consultants, pitching for new clients and monitoring the key trends in business and management.

THE CANDIDATE

You will need to demonstrate that you have the following skills:

Technical skills in selected areas (e.g. writing, media relations, publications) and a high degree of relevant technical experience.
Understanding of public relations and its application to business, government or professional service organisations.
Ability to build successful client partnerships based on daily contact with our clients relating to long and short term tasks.
Achieve tangible media impact for clients through reputation / communication strategies.
Good team-worker – is able to support others and contribute constructively to effective team working and team discussions.

Remuneration

Salary up to £40k with

Benefits include subsidised Gym membership, Healthcare, Generous Holiday

Based in St Albans. We operate a flexible working policy.