We are excited to be working with one of the UK and Ireland's leading strategic communications and content management agencies who are looking for an Account Director.
Personal Attributes
* You’re a great team leader.
* You take full ownership of the accounts you work on, developing, delivering, foreseeing and exceeding their needs at all times.
* You are commercially astute. You can help drive our business growth, manage budgets, meet targets, and support the clients’ business and organisational objectives.
* You know the clients’ business, their environment, their objectives and their needs, inside and out and can communicate effectively with them.
* You are confident in writing, for example, press release, opinion piece, reactive statement to a client crisis or new business proposal.
* You are creative and bring new ideas to the table.
* You are great at networking.
* You are results driven.
Key Responsibilities
* Lead multiple PR accounts delivering pro-activity, responsiveness, creativity and problem-solving.
* Lead a PR team in a busy environment, contributing positively to the team’s well-being and its success. Manage and support junior members whilst assisting the Board of Directors.
* Be your clients’ strategist and their champion – anticipate their needs, seek and create unique opportunities for them, generate results and outcomes that exceed their expectations and trouble-shoot on their behalf.
* Develop and lead highly targeted and holistic PR strategies, plans and tactics across traditional media, social media and the wider marketing spectrum.
* Produce journalist-quality and compelling content and copy to meet all client/Agency needs (news releases, statements, editorial/features, strategy documents, new business proposals, web and marketing copy).
* Provide first-class media relations and engagement when required.
* Identify and develop new business opportunities to help drive our business growth and support clients’ business and organisational objectives.
* Be involved in the setting and management of annual budgets with clients and the Agency.
* Ensure achievement of revenue targets.
* Fully support the Directors in the delivery of all duties.
* Be committed to the ethos, aims and objectives of the Agency.
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