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Account Director (Property Planning & Public Affairs)

Employer
Brook Street
Location
London (Central), London (Greater)
Salary
Up to £70,000 + outstanding benefits and bonus scheme
Closing date
16 Nov 2024

Job Details

Account Director (Property Planning & Consultations)

Award Winning Public Affairs Firm – London

Competitive Salary 

Are you a savvy public affairs Account Director (or experinced SAM) specialist with a passion for the property planning space? If so, read on!

This firm is a market leading, independently owned, fast paced agency that is passionate about regeneration and place-making. They work with the biggest and brightest companies to deliver homes, job and places in  London and the South East.

As an Account Director, your role is to manage your client accounts on a day by day basis delivering high quality activity demonstrating agency objective to demonstrate added value in all your activities.

Company Benefits: 25 days annual leave (plus Christmas break & bank holiday), healthcare cover (BUPA), 3.30pm Friday finish, hybrid office/ home working, summer & Christmas parties, “glamping trips”, social committee, Friday bar, “elevenses” etc (when restrictions lift).

  Your duties will include, but will not be limited to:

  • Managing, with support and guidance, consultation, and corporate communication programmes     for a wide range of property, public sector and corporate clients
  • Support and brief client teams
  • Well versed in all aspects of the planning and property landscape and be able to demonstrate an up-to-date understanding of how to deliver communication activities throughout the project timeline
  • Preparing client ready collateral and advice on delivering a strategy and associated programme successfully
  • Assisting in the organisation of public exhibition events including visiting and booking venues, distribution maps, Q&As and rolling out the agreed stakeholder contact programme
  • Acting as a mentor and day to day contact for junior consultants
  • Overseeing projects and ensuring junior members of the team deliver consistent, high quality material and content
  • Have an increased understanding of the commercial drivers for your clients and business as a whole
  • Oversight and management of client / project budget

Emerging skills to become a Senior Account Manager

  • An understanding of managing project costs and preparing content for monthly invoicing
  • Deep understanding of key client stakeholders
  • Deliver creative ideas and insights, mining organic growth opportunities
  • Undertaking a mentoring role to the wider team in terms of developing team skills
  • Preparing training as part of the Kanda development programme
  • Developing a strategic role within the client team and advising on wider project risks and opportunities

** The above is not an exhaustive list and will develop as the business grows and evolves**

  Key attributes and skills:

  • Strong interpersonal skills, good communicator – clear and directive
  • Excellent organisational skills, good time and project management
  • Enthusiastic, approachable, ‘can do’ attitude
  • Self-starter, proactive, takes initiative
  • Works collaboratively, good team player
  • Demonstrate agility, decisiveness and responsiveness
  • Works calmly under pressure, exercising discretion and demonstrating gravitas
  • High quality of work with strong attention to detail
  • Competent copywriting skills
  • Demonstrates agility and responsiveness
  • Strong ability to assimilate, analyse and summarise written material quickly
  • Excellent research and communication (written and oral) skills

Please email me with an updated CV immediately if you or anyone you know is suitable for this role.

Company

We’ve grown into one of the UK’s leading recruitment agencies − matching thousands of people with meaningful job opportunities at more than 4,500 companies every year. Delivering a quality service to suit the needs of clients and candidates alike was important to our founder Margery Hurst and it remains important to us today. 

Across our 50+ high street locations, we make hiring and job searching more personal. Our nationwide reach means we can engage with jobseekers and employers in person, allowing us to perfectly tailor our approach to their unique requirements. But we also have the nationwide infrastructure and innovative technology that’s needed to make the process seamless and hassle free. That’s why jobseekers turn to us when they’re looking to change roles, take the first step into employment, or re-enter the workplace. And it’s why employers across all sectors trust us to find their ideal new recruits, no matter how big or small their hiring requirements.

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