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Senior Account Executive or Account Manager - Consumer - Top Agency – Camden

Employer
Median
Location
London (Camden)
Salary
to £38,000 plus benefits
Closing date
17 Aug 2019

Job Details

Senior Account Executive/Account Manager - Consumer Brands (Ideally you will have at least some Broadcast PR experience) - Top PR Agency – Camden – between £30,000 and £38,000 depending on experience, plus benefits & genuine career progression

My client is a super PR agency, with offices in London, New York and Paris. Based in Camden, they won Agency of the Year at the EMEA Sabre Awards. They help brands tell their stories through all means of content, whether words, pictures or moving image, build their reputation through emotional connections and solve their communications problems. 

My client is now seeking a strong Senior Account Executive or an Account Manager ideally with broad based consumer sector PR experience and at least some broadcast media relations experience to join the friendly team and work across a really varied range of prestigious brands and clients including a luxury jewellery brand, market leading spirits brand, the UKs leading coffee chain book awards, and the international conference to address the impact of climate change on the world's oceans.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Manage relationships and workloads, both externally with clients, partners, suppliers, and internally with the team
  • Be the go-to person for clients by providing excellent service and consultation
  • Facilitate projects on time, to budget and in line with expectations
  • Work collaboratively across the business with the creative and production teams and manage the flow of information to the client with one consistent point of contact
  • Craft internal and client correspondence, comprehensive well thought out communication plans, brand toolkits, press materials, etc.
  • Be able to juggle a number of different activations including, timelines, logistics and events with attention to detail
  • Support your line manager on campaign planning globally and implementation locally for a range of consumer campaigns both global and UK
  • Nurture on-going close relationships with a pool of journalists
  • Create and drive outreach plans, message development, effective pitching and training of spokespersons on speeches and presentations
  • Ensure campaigns are kept up to date on the Digital News Agency (DNA)

ESSENTIAL SKILLS:

  • Ability to communicate effectively throughout all levels of the business with strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Good understanding of the media landscape both in UK and globally, across traditional and non-traditional / new media channels
  • Experience in Broadcast media relations and Live SMT’s, preferable but not essential
  • Strong organisational, administrative and time management skills
  • Ability to write appropriately for different requirements: press releases, proposals, status reports, contact reports, etc
  • Computer literate with a sound understanding of Microsoft Office, as well as online tools including DNA, Gorkana, Kantar, RAJAR, Year Ahead, etc
  • Excellent attention to detail
  • Ability to work as part of a team and to take initiative
  • Have an interest in managing a team and desire to support and teach junior members of staff

This is a great opportunity for someone to develop their career in an exciting forward-thinking agency. My client offers a very competitive salary between £30,000 and £38,000 depending on experience, plus super benefits, genuine career progression and the chance to work with some fantastic household name brands.

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

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

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