Account Manager, Financial Services PR
- Employer
- Alexander James Recruitment Ltd
- Location
- London (Central), London (Greater)
- Salary
- Up to £33k plus benefits
- Closing date
- 6 Jul 2019
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Discipline
- Financial PR, Consumer
- Seniority
- Manager / Mid-Management
- Sector
- Financial Services
Job Details
Our client is a fast paced financial services PR agency. The team needs to hire an experienced Account Manager with previous PR agency experience and a passion for financial services.
There is a really interesting and mixed client list for the successful candidate to work on from day one.
You will need to be:
- Social – creating strong teams that know how to work together
- Curious – curiosity leads to continuous questioning and learning
- Open – open minds lead to better ideas and relationships
- Responsible – aiming to be a force for good in the way we do business
- Entrepreneurial – everyone behaving as if it was their own business
Specific responsibilities
Account Planning and Management
- Responsibility for driving implementation of agreed client programmes/ work
- Project planning and development of critical paths and timetables for all client work
- Oversee preparations for account meetings and ensure account team, including Director, is fully prepared for these
- Produce/ review written materials, including briefing documents and client memorandum, ensuring they are delivered to an excellent standard
- Regular creative input to account work, including identifying and generating opportunities for promoting account objectives
- Contribute to strategic discussions about client accounts
- Lead and contribute strongly in meetings, with ideas and input across all activity
- Support Director and Account Director in acting as Consultant to client, giving strong advice and input
- Assist Account Director in developing budgets for client programmes and have regard to these in implementing account programmes
- Manage junior members of account team
- Manage and delegate work in a timely fashion
- Assume Account Directors’ responsibilities in their absence/ unavailability
Media Relations
- Oversee and implement media relations’ activity, including timings, distribution lists, methods of distribution
- Develop media strategies for clients’ interests
- Monitor media for relevant client coverage and potential opportunities for clients across the team
- Circulate relevant sector intelligence to team
- Manage collation of all coverage, evaluation and presentation to client
- Oversee / produce client related materials, e.g. press releases, reports etc and ensure they are delivered to an excellent standard
- Develop and maintain relationships with journalists, suppliers and key stakeholders
- Strong media handling skills, including supporting crisis communications work
- Identify media opportunities for further client work
Event Management
- Design, plan and manage client events, including press conferences, dinners, seminars, receptions etc
- Develop and implement PR plans to maximise value of client events
New Business
- Identify opportunities to expand and develop existing business with clients
- Writing proposals and presentations, including client projects and contract renewals
- Support development of new business proposals and attend new business pitches
- Provide regular input into company’s new business activity
- Contribute to marketing activity
- Contribute to developing case studies of client work for website, credentials presentations etc
Social media
- Be actively involved in building understanding of social media
- Provide creative input into how social media could be leveraged for client activity
- Build your professional social media presence
Working here is interesting and challenging and the rest of team take a real pride in delivering great results for their clients so you will need to do the same. The team has a great culture and you will need to have a positive, can do attitude and a charismatic personality to work here.
Company
A keen appreciation and understanding of people is the Alexander James seal of excellence. It helps explain why we’ve established such an enviable track record over a period of 10 years in PR and Communications recruitment.
Filling person-spaces in organisations means assembling all pieces of the puzzle to build a complete picture of a potential candidate – their experiences, their talents and gifts, their personality.
In the world of recruitment, experience really does count. As does an innate ability to read people.
- Website
- http://www.alexjamesuk.com/
- Location
-
Headley House
Parklands
Railton Road
Guildford
GU2 9JX
GB
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