Consumer Senior Account Manager - South Manchester

My client is an Award Winning PR Agency based in South Manchester who is looking to appoint a consumer PR Senior Account Manager.

A fun, young, dynamic and driven agency which operates at a fast pace, working on some great brands… they offer a supportive as well as sociable working environment and have a great record at developing their staff internally.

Their consumer portfolio includes sports and outdoors, retail, automotive, consumer goods, FMCG.

You will be the strategic lead on a number of the agency’s biggest and most important clients and will also work directly with the managing director on the development of a new business strategy. 

You will be creative, strategic and a go-getter who is able to turn the most challenging briefs into world beating PR proposals. 

The agency mixes traditional and digital PR together and while digital skills are not essential, a prior understanding of social media, Google Analytics and SEO would be beneficial.

Responsibilities will include:

• liaising with clients and the media, via telephone and email;
• monitoring the media
• account management
• mentoring & managing junior members of staff
• implementing PR activity
• preparing regular client reports and attending client meetings
• researching, writing and distributing press releases
• promoting news stories and features to the media, known as ‘selling in’
• collating, analysing and evaluating media coverage
• coordinating press photography
• undertaking research for new business proposals
• managing social media accounts