Come fly with me! Account Director needed for exciting travel agency

Are you suffering from a case of Wanderlust? (Who isn’t!?) Are you looking to make the next step in your career? …Then this role could be perfect for you! Read below for more details!

The Role:

Thanks to company growth, this exciting are looking for, ideally and Account Director but will considering those at Senior Account Manager level, to lead some exciting travel clients. You could be working on clients such as: Hilton Hotels, Palm Spring California, Holiday Inn, Cuba Direct, Visit Berlin, Hotel Le Toiny, Adrian Hoteles and Wonderful Indonesia, to name but a few!

For this role, travel PR experience is preferred, but not essential – wider lifestyle brand exposure and a track-record of securing coverage in key lifestyle publications will allow you to flourish in this role. Ideal candidates will be proactive and energetic with a can-do attitude and strong work ethic.

Key Responsibilities:

To deliver professional, public relations support to clients, including strategic direction, implementation and client service as well inspiring and developing the team, new business development, financial management and maintaining fantastic media relations.

This will be achieved by:

• Providing strategic direction to clients and the team
• Strategic PR planning, fully reflecting client objectives and targets as well as the market environment
• Creative campaign management and implementation including effective media pitching, organising media events, planning and hosting media fam trips, client tradeshow support, arranging media interviews etc
• Establish strong and profitable relationships with clients, gaining their confidence and ensuring retention and growth
• Leverage familiarity with the media and awareness of current/industry affairs for effective communications strategies, tactics and results
• Building and nurturing strong relationships with key journalists and bloggers 
• Effective media management to capitalise on all coverage opportunities
• Writing of materials including press releases, project proposals, presentations and other content
• Delivering high quality new business and other client presentations
• Identify, generate and qualify new business leads and manage through to conversion
• Produce timely and high-quality client reports and analysis as required

This office, despite being located just five minutes from Oxford town center, are easy accessible from Paddington main line (58 minutes), and driveable from the surrounding home-counties of Buckinghamshire and Berkshire as well as North Hampshire. Main feeder towns could include Reading, Swindon, Guildford, Banbury and Bicester.

The Agency:

This agency state that their “unique approach” is the result of travel focussed client-side experience, strong contacts and passion.

The team, made up of c.7 professionals, are well respected within the industry. They are actively involved with the trade and media, who regularly applaud their creativity and proactivity.

This agency work with a broad range of clients within the travel and lifestyle sectors. Their current client list includes the following mix of tourism, tour operator, leisure and hospitality clients. For these leading brands, the team offer PR, brand representation, marketing, events organisation and crisis management.

Interested? Send your CV across!

Alternatively, we offer £150 in Amazon vouchers for all successfully place referrals, so do pass this information on if you have a friend of colleague who would be interested in this role.