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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.

Company info
Website
Location
Headley House
Parklands
Railton Road
Guildford
GU2 9JX
GB

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