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Account Director - Corporate PR Agency - Kentish Town, London - to £45,000 + benefits

Employer
Median
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
to £45,000 depending on experience + benefits
Closing date
27 Oct 2018

Job Details

Account Director – Corporate Team – Top 150 Agency – Kentish Town, London – to £45,000 depending on experience

Established in 2004, my client is one of the UK’s top 150 PR agencies (PR Week 2018). The agency is made up of two teams; corporate & professional services, and community & not-for-profit.  My client continues to go from strength to strength and is now looking for an experienced Account Director, someone with energy, entrepreneurial drive and ambition who can achieve top results for clients, and support the wider senior management team as it enters an exciting period of growth. 

Leading a team of ambitious communications professionals, the successful candidate will be responsible for a portfolio of accounts spanning a range of organisations, campaigns and issues across a number of sectors from real estate to professional services, tech and financial comms. The individual must be a self-starter and be looking to work somewhere with an entrepreneurial spirit where they will be given autonomy to lead accounts.

Core responsibilities include:

  • Responsible for strategic direction of accounts
  • Cultivates and maintains senior client relationships, providing senior level consultancy
  • Overall responsibility for the delivery of client activities
  • Overall responsibility for professional development and management of team members
  • Demonstrates leadership throughout agency and willingness to develop, manage and lead in process areas
  • Demonstrates ability to win or grow new business
  • Understanding and use of social media. Able to advise clients on the relevancy and benefits

Experience required:

  • 5 years' related experience of communications in a corporate or related areas, preferably agency-side. 
  • Business/client winning presentation skills
  • Significant experience of managing and leading teams
  • Significant experience of advising senior staff, from trustees to chief executives, on all aspects of the communications mix, including reputation and crisis management issues

In return for your talent and endeavour, my client offers a very competitive salary up to £45,000 depending on experience plus a range of benefits.

Please forward your CV without delay and in complete confidence to [email protected]

Company

Two Time Winner – Recruiter Awards for Excellence

Median Recruitment is one of the UK’s leading specialist PR and communications recruitment consultancies. Established in 1998, over the years Median has helped literally thousands of Public Relations professionals take their next step on the career ladder.

Our success means we have received an unprecedented five consecutive nominations at the prestigious Recruiter Awards for Excellence in the category of “Best Media Recruiter” with wins in 2006 and 2007.

At present we are recruiting on behalf of many of the top 100 UK and international PR agencies, in addition to the in-house PR departments of several world renowned blue-chip companies.

To assist our candidates, we have dedicated recruiters at all levels of PR, from graduate entry level through to account management, right up to board level. In addition, we have a team dedicated to freelance and contract positions. The team consists of highly intelligent consultants, some of whom are from the PR industry itself.

Through referrals, incentive schemes, network events and with a brand that is now entrenched in the PR market, Median attracts a wide audience of PR candidates. As a result we have been able to seriously invest in advertising and our banners, buttons and job advertisements are by far the most recognised on all the main leading PR job boards, websites and publications.

Located in the heart of London’s West End, Median Recruitment truly understands the specific requirements of PR firms and in-house departments; that’s why so many of them trust us, and us alone, to search and select their candidates.

Please don’t hesitate to contact one of our consultants on 020 7292 0455 for further information or visit our website at www.medianrecruit.co.uk

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 7292 0455
Location
3 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5PD
GB

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