Associate Director - Consumer PR
Splendid Communications, an exciting and passionate PR Communications agency, is looking for a talented Associate Director to join the team.
Working across high profile food, drink, retail and consumer tech clients, the successful individual will have the opportunity to have a huge impact working across award-winning always-on activity and campaigns.
The role…
We are looking for an experienced Consumer PR SAD/Associate Director to join the senior team and lead one of our most high-profile consumer PR accounts as well as some smaller accounts.
You will have significant experience leading client teams in a consumer agency environment, with passion and experience in food and drink, retail and consumer lifestyle clients as well as delivering great results. You will also be a seasoned operator in leading, motivating and developing account teams.
Reporting into: PR Director / Head of Client Partnerships
What you’ll be doing…
Excellent client management skills with a proven track record of providing counsel to senior clients and influencing stakeholders
Strong team-working skills, resilience and tenacity
Strong UK experience is essential
A passion for media relations with expert knowledge and confidence in media strategy and activation
Strong commercial awareness, with a good understanding of working with client fee forecasts, writing accurate budgets, managing service levels and resource planning to ensure profitable and effective delivery of campaigns
Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills and attention to detail
Strategic planning and management skills to take a client brief through the planning process, integrate with other agencies above and below the line and oversee the delivery of activation
Confidence and skill in responding to briefs with tight turnarounds and varying budgets to produce great creative work
Strong presentation skills and ability to sell and up-sell ideas to clients
Excellent writing skills including press releases to generate news and launch campaigns
Excellent project management and problem-solving skills
Experience of handling reactive crisis communication is desirable but not essential
What we need from you…
Excellent client management skills with a proven track record of providing counsel to senior clients and influencing stakeholders
Strong team-working skills, resilience and tenacity
Strong UK experience is essential
A passion for media relations with expert knowledge and confidence in media strategy and activation
Strong commercial awareness, with a good understanding of working with client fee forecasts, writing accurate budgets, managing service levels and resource planning to ensure profitable and effective delivery of campaigns
Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills and attention to detail
Strategic planning and management skills to take a client brief through the planning process, integrate with other agencies above and below the line and oversee the delivery of activation
Confidence and skill in responding to briefs with tight turnarounds and varying budgets to produce great creative work
Strong presentation skills and ability to sell and up-sell ideas to clients
Excellent writing skills including press releases to generate news and launch campaigns
Excellent project management and problem-solving skills
Experience of handling reactive crisis communication is desirable but not essential
Bring your real self to work and thrive in an environment where everyone is welcome and good vibes and growth are the goals
Benefits:
- Take breaks with 25 days of paid holiday a year, plus eight bank holidays. This rises by 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 30 days 😊
- Celebrate your Birthday with an additional day off 🎂
- Christmas Close Down – we close our office between Christmas and New Year, so we give you 3 days extra days off for the festive period🎄
- Balance work and home life with our Hybrid working policy – working up to 3 days from home and 2 days a week in the office (across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) 💻
- Early 4.30 pm finish on Friday 🙌
- Headspace hour - 1 hour guaranteed meeting free per day
- Sabbaticals - after 3 years’ service
- Work from anywhere for a calendar month- after 2 years’ service
- Working late – we don’t encourage late working but if you do have to work after 9 pm, we will pay for a taxi to get you home safely and provide food
- Discretionary annual bonus scheme as well as bonuses available for new business wins and recruitment referrals
- Enhanced parental pay (varies on service levels)
- Look after your health with access to WeCare, a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more
- Get day-to-day access to support from our in-house Head of Wellbeing
- Develop your personal balance with a £100 yearly fund
- Mingle with the team at our monthly all-agency socials, Summer and Christmas parties
- Stay connected with a company use iPhone
- Build your future with our pension scheme
- Get fit during your commutes with our Ride to Work scheme
- Prefer to take public transport? We can give you a travel loan, interest free!
- Lunch provided on a Thursday in the office
- Yummy snacks and drinks for those that get peckish during the day
At Splendid we care deeply and are passionate about inclusion at every level of our business. We believe that team diversity enriches our collaborative culture and our work for clients. We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience match our job description. If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let our recruitment team know.
- Department
- PR
- Locations
- Splendid HQ
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
About Splendid Communications
At Splendid we call our approach People-First Creativity.
From our strategic thinking, to the way we generate ideas, to the way we work with our clients, our starting point is real people living real lives in the real world. Brief us and we’ll challenge you, we’ll urge you to keep it real and we’ll collaborate as if we’re an extension of your team.
At Splendid we care deeply about inclusion and want to keep growing our team to reflect the diversity of the wider population.
We believe that team diversity enriches our collaborative culture and our work for clients. We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience match our job description. If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let our recruitment team know.
We’re here to deliver creative work that lives beyond the industry bubble. We love what we do
Associate Director - Consumer PR
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