PR Account Manager - Consumer

We are recruiting for a PR Account Manager to join our Consumer team who work with great brands across consumer tech, leisure and lifestyle including home entertainment, gaming, travel and retail.

We are looking for someone with experience across fast paced press offices, a team player with a passion for popular culture and a great eye for news, a creative brain who loves thinking big and thrives on bringing ambitious campaign ideas, to life someone who enjoys a busy and varied role and someone knowledgeable of and connected with a wide spectrum of media.

Some of the things you will be doing:

• Driving campaigns forward and coordinating activity across your core accounts
• Effectively managing a range of coverage-generating techniques
• Applying your knowledge of the news and social agenda to client campaigns and using it to generate opportunities
• Maximising your extensive contacts list to seek out opportunities, sell-in and land top-tier coverage
• Managing influencers and talent from negotiations and contracts through to content delivery
• Using your creative writing skills to draft stand-out copy that will resonate with media, influencers and owned social channels
• Building strong day-to-day client relationships, confidently leading client meetings and providing advice and recommendations
• Taking ownership of projects and campaigns from planning through to delivery, reporting and evaluation
• Managing and supporting junior team members, delegating effectively and ensuring work is delivered to a high standard
• Managing account budgets and resources, keeping an eye on profitability and ensuring work is delivered within agreed scope
• Identifying opportunities to grow and develop your client accounts
• Juggling multiple client and team needs

Who you are:

• A hard worker who loves the constant variety and fast pace of a career in PR
• An established Account Manager looking for a new role on an exciting client mix.
• An excellent team player with great communication skills
• Excellent media relations within lifestyle titles, broadcast, and national news/ features writers
• Proficient in developing creative and impactful content for a variety of needs.

Brownie Points if…

• You have strong agency experience working with big brands.
• You have experience working with tech brands
• Socially minded, tapping into content and social trends along with knowledge of current and up and coming talent/influencers.