PR Account Manager – Guildford/remote working
Salary £32,000 (full time) plus benefits
- Do you have several years’ experience of managing PR programmes?
- Do you have agency experience?
- Do you want the option to work on a Part Time or Full Time basis?
About Our Client
We are working with an award-winning PR Agency who are experts in business-to-business and consumer communications.
Job Description
They have an exciting Account Manager role, full or part-time, fixed-term maternity leave contract opportunity, initially for 10 months, with the possibility of extension. You will need several years’ experience of managing PR programmes, in an agency environment. Responsible for driving client accounts on a day-to-day basis, you’ll execute the strategies and activities detailed by the account director, ensuring that programmes and objectives are adhered to and that client accounts are well organised.
You should be a capable and confident operator with the required media and communication skills. You’ll need to be a capable and precise writer, possess excellent research skills and enjoy mastering sometimes complex topics. You must enjoy the cut and thrust of media relations and be ambitious to achieve outstanding results. You will report to client directors/account directors and will delegate to and manage the work of account executives/senior account executives.
Due to arrangements under COVID-19, you will work partly from home and partly from our clients socially distanced office in central Guildford, Surrey, once government guidelines allow.
The position is full or part-time, with the minimum of 30 hours per week. The hours will be split across five working days. There may be some flexibility about the precise hours worked each day, but it is preferred for the successful candidate to work on each day of the business week.
Responsibilities include:
- Playing the central role in the client team and taking full responsibility for the daily and weekly implementation of client programmes, managing client relationships and resolving any problems.
- Delegating work as appropriate to junior staff members, motivating them and helping them to manage their workloads to ensure timely delivery.
- Measuring results achieved for clients versus targets and KPIs, driving the preparation of results analyses, media coverage reports and activity reports.
- Having the ability to lead new business brainstorms and making a creative input into new business pitches.
- Working with the account director to develop client PR strategies and plans
- Possessing and developing useful and relevant business contacts.
- Having a mature ability to brief designers, photographers, printers, etc. in a knowledgeable and precise manner, negotiating costs and managing quality control and deadlines.
- Having a full understanding of financial controls on all accounts, including budgeting policies and procedures.
- Having the ability to commission and analyse research, including surveys and focus groups.
What’s On Offer
- Pension scheme
- 25 days holiday plus public holidays
- An extra day off on your birthday
- Private medical insurance
- Six-monthly career reviews
- Monthly mentoring scheme
Job Number: VR/02880
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