Deputy Managing Director - PR

This leading, award-winning independent PR agency offers clients a unique balance of mindset, capability and people, international locations and an ambition unlike any other.

What is the role?

We are looking for a Senior Director / Deputy Managing Director to join as a senior member of the team.  With extensive experience at senior level within industry-leading PR agencies, you will bring your expertise to enhance the agency offering and reputation in consumer communications, adeptly challenge the current board in terms of strategic thinking and be the catalyst to drive revenue growth across the business.

You will be responsible for helping achieve the agency's ambitions into an operational reality and direct, inspire, motivate and develop the team.  Your work in particular will involve overseeing a client portfolio, providing senior counsel, driving new business and managing account teams.  You will have worked on global brands and have a track record in growing client revenue.  Understanding various verticals underneath the consumer and b2b umbrella is essential, and a passion for one or two particular areas of expertise is desirable.  Making the most of this will depend on the calibre and experience you bring with you.

Reporting in to the Managing Director, you will be part of a senior team that will help drive the growth of the agency.

The successful candidate will:

• Have an exceptionally strong record of leading big brand clients and delivering strategic counsel
• Apply strategic thinking / solutions to client challenges across the business, able to tailor ideas and pitches to different audiences and create routes to engagement that are relevant to the clients
• Grow existing clients by developing new and compelling strategies and campaigns that clients want to buy
• Have a proven track record of pitching new business, selling strategies and campaigns that demonstrate an understanding of a client’s objectives / challenges
• Inspire, lead and help nurture talent within the agency, instilling good practise
• Be connected within the comms industry that will be utilised to market the work coming out of the agency
• Consistently exceed client expectations in the development and delivery of client communications strategies for which you are responsible

Most of all, you will be robust, tenacious and ambitious with as much emotional intelligence as fearlessness.  If this is you, please get in touch to discuss in confidence.

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