Senior PR Account Executive - Office Angels : Job Details

Office Angels are currently recruiting for a Senior PR Account Executive for our client based in Reading.

Role: Senior PR Account Executive

Location: Earley, Reading

Salary: £25,000 - £30,000 depending on experience

The Role:

PR

• Display knowledge of sectors, competitors, audience and channels in front of clients
• Be a problem solver through sector, audience and clients knowledge & awareness
• Reach out to different media to understand what they are interested in and build a relationships
• Maintain relationships with journalists and contacts
• Flag new journalists/influencers and information
• Pitch different approaches and angles to ensure campaign targets are met
• Present new ideas, implementation plans and thinking to clients
• Handle more difficult contacts with tact and confidence with little supervision
• Build relationships with key distributors through contact and demonstration of competitor activity & trends
• Maintain an established and trusted network of partners, understanding their capabilities, costs and benefits
• Brief designers in a clear and succinct way
• Manage the design process, including all amends to client sign-off
• Manage photographic sign-offs being aware of all brand guidelines
• Create and write features, opinion pieces, newsletters, website copy etc for a variety of audiences
• Craft messages and complex responses to more complicated briefs
• Stay current with Meta updates and ensure a good all-round knowledge of all advertising and boosting options
• Suggest and create new campaigns on new platforms
• Present reasoning and thinking behind a social media strategy
• Draft simple social media strategies including objectives, audiences, content pillars
• Run a creative brainstorm using different techniques to gain great results
• Create new ideas and solutions and seek to enhance client programmes with new activities

Business Development

• Write proposals for smaller client projects including strategy, implementation, KPIs and budget
• Create credentials for new business prospects
• Suggest new marketing initiatives and campaigns to support the business
• Able to identify and suggest organic opportunities for existing clients
• Use sector knowledge to identify new potential clients and seeks opportunities to approach and connect

Account Management

• Draft budgets and KPIs for client approval

• Understand client financial processes including procurement and overall budgets
• Keep budgets on track and within agreed parameters
• Assist junior team members
• Communicate upwards and downwards to keep clients plans on track

The ideal candidate:

• Previous and demonstrable experience as a PR Account Manager role or similar position
• Strong copywriting skills
• Adept at taking client briefs and building PR plans
• Ability to mentor and guide team executives
• Display perseverance and the ability to be persuasive
• Confident to consult, manage and give direction
• Understand consumer audiences and behaviours on social platforms to be able to advise on the right platforms
• Manage own time and workload efficiently and effectively
• Display understanding of campaign strategy

If you are interested in this position, please send your CV to Morgan Lay at or alternatively please apply online.

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