Account Executive

ZN003 Zeno UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Zeno Group is seeking a junior Account Executive to support the Corporate Reputation team in London. You will help keep teams organized, maintain attention to detail across client portfolios, and start building media contacts while developing client relationships.

You will demonstrate basic PR skills, including writing and media relations for a named client portfolio, with at least a year of relevant PR experience.

Qualifications

• Must have at least 1 year of PR work experience.
• Proven basic PR skills including writing and media relations for a portfolio of clients.
• Strong attention to detail across multiple accounts.
• Ability to manage time and coordinate with Account Manager to meet client deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage day-to-day tasks with the Account Manager.
• Draft press releases, media pitches, bylined articles and social media copy.
• Monitor news and flag relevant industry stories for commentary or issues.
• Assist with media outreach including building media lists and outreach to journalists.
• Distribute media coverage and develop activity reports for clients.
• Contribute to brainstorms and planning for clients; conduct online research.
• Maintain and organize client files and forward feature calendars/speaker opportunities.
• Support DE&I, Culture, Social, and Influencer initiatives within the agency.

Skills

Public relations writing

Media relations

Attention to detail

Time management

Organization

Client relationship building

Job description

Zeno Group is the fiercely independent and global, integrated communications agency, born from PR. We bring together the boldest and brightest talent to help clients across industries and sectors unleash the power of strategic communications. Guided by our "Fearless Pursuit of the Unexpected," we push the boundaries to achieve real business value and societal impact for clients. Winner of the industry’s most coveted awards including the 2024 PRWeek U.S. Outstanding Large Agency of the Year, 2023 PRWeek Purpose Agency of the Year, 2022 PRWeek Global Agency of the Year, 2022 PRovoke Best Large Agency to Work For in North America and a three-time winner of PRWeek’s Best Places to Work. Zeno has also been previously recognized by the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Zeno is a DJE Holdings Company.

Job Description:

ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE Team:

Reports to: Account Director

Location: City of London

Salary band: £30,000 - £32,000

This is a junior position in the growing Corporate Reputation team.

We are looking for someone early in their career who is keen to gain experience working with global brands including Amazon, Proctor & Gamble and The Coca-Cola Company as well as supporting the growth of the Corporate Reputation team in London.

You will be responsible for helping to keep teams organised, maintaining high levels of attention to detail across a portfolio of accounts, building a little black book of media contacts and beginning to develop a relationship with our clients.

You will be expected to demonstrate proven basic public relations skills, notably writing and media relations for a named portfolio of clients.

You will have at least a year of relevant PR work experience.

ABOUT YOU

Day-to-day tasks

You will be expected to take ownership of tasks and projects, working with your Account Manager to manage your time and ensure all client deadlines are met.

A typical week might include:

• Preparing agendas and action notes for internal and client meetings,
• Drafting written content including press releases, media pitches, bylined articles and social media copy,
• News monitoring including flagging relevant industry stories for proactive comment or potential bubbling issues,
• Supporting with media outreach including building media lists and outreach to media, providing a point of view on media strategy and approach,
• Collection, collation and distributing media coverage on a regular basis (including online monitoring), developing activity reports to share with clients,
• Participate in and contribute to brainstorms and planning for clients,
• Online research using social media tools and techniques,
• Maintaining client files, ensuring that files and records are kept in good order, e.g. ensuring the unnecessary drafts are deleted from the system,
• Organising and researching forward feature calendars / speaker opportunities including sourcing and qualification of opportunities and status maintenance.

Workload Management

• Time management – organising workload and setting / meeting deadlines ensuring time for consultation, discussion and feedback.
• Supervising junior staff, including delegating tasks to JAEs and managing their time, setting clear expectations and deadlines.
• Participate in wider agency teams e.g. DE&I, Culture, Social, Influencer.

Team Building

• Working with team – ensuring team involvement and communication at all times.
• Motivation – demonstrating energy and enthusiasm to on-going workload and projects.
• Communicating with supervisors to ensure they are updated on work in progress and briefed when having difficulty achieving required results.

PR Skills

• Writing – an AE is expected to demonstrate public relations writing skills in a variety of formats, including releases, opinion pieces, blogs etc. It will be important to understand different formats and how to write for different audiences.
• Media Knowledge – it’s important to have in-depth knowledge of the media, for your specific clients and in general. This should include national, trade and online. You must be proficient in using basic media tools to research and develop insight on journalists and client competition.
• Media liaison – dealing with day-to-day enquiries; acting professionally when meeting the press; establishing and building relationships with journalists; selling in stories / articles/ features over the phone; ensuring copy is prepared, approved and submitted in line with deadlines, researching and writing copy for features; writing and following up photo-call notices; closing the loop with all press opportunities.
• Quality standards – producing a high standard of work at all times, paying attention to detail and removing the possibility of careless errors. The AE will also work to maintain all company quality standards continually looking for areas of improvement.

Great to Haves

• Understanding of a changing media landscape and appetite to build knowledge of multi-channel media strategies (including paid and owned).
• Interest in food and drink sector and in sustainability.
• Analysis and assimilation of current affairs – taking an active interest in business and current affairs, subscribing to news groups to keep updated on political affairs that affect the client.
• Interest in leadership communications including building a profile in earned media and on owned channels like LinkedIn.

Level 03

We are a rapidly-growing agency that provides opportunities to learn, develop skills and collaborate with colleagues at all levels across our global network.

Ask us about Zeno’s Day of Play, Zeno Gives Back (our global day of service), Fearless University, office happy hours and more.

We are always looking for diverse talent who can bring great energy to our teams and our business.

Zeno is the place where careers are built and lives are lived.

A Fiercely Independent Agency

Zeno is an award-winning, global integrated communications agency, born from PR, operating across North America, Europe and Asia.

Zeno is – and always will be – for everyone.

We are committed to fostering a global, diverse workforce where all employees feel valued, included and empowered.

What sets Zeno apart is the people who comprise the agency – the unique perspectives, the varied worldviews and the impactful empathy – who are dedicated to driving positive change.

To support our diverse workforce, we created safe-space communities to connect with others who share similar backgrounds, experiences, identities, etc.

• Black Voices
• Zin Miedo (Latinx)
• PRide at Zeno (LGBTQ+)
• Asian-cy (Asian and Pacific Islander)
• Zeno Village (working parents)
• Freshmen Homeroom (Intern, AAE, AE)
• Healthy Minds (mental wellbeing)

To reinforce our commitments to DE&I and take action against systemic racism, Zeno launched ‘Act Together’ in 2020.

The initiative is reflective of our shared responsibility to undertake the hard work that brings about real, positive outcomes within Zeno and the broader communications industry.

The strengthened infrastructure and resources we put in place ensures that DE&I effectively informs everything we do.

Act Together remains central to who we are and how we show up with the goal of lasting change.

We will not waver in prioritizing this important work.