Associate Director

Part-time or Full-time hours considered as well as location.

Our award-winning team of business communications experts would love to speak to talented PR Associate Directors or Senior Account Directors with B2B and Corporate experience.

We’re one of the Top 10 PR B2B agencies in the UK, and the biggest in the South West, so this is a unique opportunity to work with the best in industry and accelerate your career progression. As a key member of our senior leadership team, you will be working on the strategic development of some of our biggest clients and the delivery of their PR and communications campaigns.  

It is a hugely exciting time to join this fast-growing creative team as we grow through new business wins and work on some exciting new public and private sector programmes across the UK and internationally.

This is a client-facing role, where you will be leading workshops, supporting pitches and generating compelling creative ideation across integrated marketing channels that exceeds our client’s expectations. Not only will you need to bring your creative flair when coming up with ideas, but you will need to inspire, mentor and lead your team to do the same.

We would also love to hear from candidates that are looking for a more flexible working pattern and would consider part time hours/ job share. We are also open to wider locations and a more virtual working pattern, where required.

We are a team that is focused on balancing work with life. We do understand how busy it can be to deliver for our clients and we focus on ensuring you work to live and work life does not take over. We do this through no meeting days / no email zones and other initiatives to ensure you can achieve this balance.  

We celebrate our successes together and there are many additional perks to working within the Speed family such as…..

• A competitive salary
• Flexible / virtual working options
• 25 days’ holiday, increasing to 29 after 2 years’ service (not including Bank holidays)
• Additional holiday purchase scheme of up to 5 days per year
• Additional 5 days’ holiday on your 5th anniversary year
• Company pension scheme
• Outstanding training and development programme
• Well-being programme inc. weekly fruit delivery, eye-care vouchers
• Refer a friend and new business incentives
• Medical cash plan, including contributions to dental, optical and physio plus Wellbeing Programme for all of team.

…..If you want to find out what it’s like to work for us, check us out on Facebook and Instagram.  

About us

Headquartered in Bristol, one of the most diverse and creative cities in the country, we’re so much more than just an agency. We’re home to 40 talented people (and growing daily) who love what they do. So we do all we can to give them the rewards they deserve and create an environment that nurtures their brilliance to be the best they can be.

It’s all about the people. We know that and it shows in everything we do from the awe inspiring work we deliver to our socials, training and the environment we’ve created. We’re not an agency with people, we’re a people agency. And a great one at that.

We want to be the agency in your career at which you remember having the most fun, being the most challenged, where you learned, were inspired and in turn were inspirational. A time where you topped your creative game, got your ambitions fulfilled, were braver than you’ve ever been and happiest at work.

Speed Communications is also part of The Mission Marketing Group, host to 13 entrepreneurial, founder led Agencies with 25 offices based across 3 continents, that include integrated, multi-discipline, multi-sector Agencies, specialists in specific marketing/communications activities and specialists in particular market sectors.