Head of Digital PR - Performance Marketing Agency

The Dark Horse; England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a renowned digital marketing agency as the Head of Digital PR, where you will lead a talented team to create engaging campaigns that drive client success. This hybrid role offers the chance to shape the digital PR strategy, ensuring clients achieve remarkable returns on their investments. You'll work in a vibrant environment that values innovation and collaboration, with flexible working options and a strong focus on mental wellbeing. If you're passionate about digital PR and ready to take your career to the next level, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Flexitime

Bonuses based on team performance

Birthday off

Mental Wellbeing BUPA programme

Carbon offset role with The Dark Forest

Qualifications

• Proven experience in earning digital PR coverage and links.
• Hands-on experience in developing and executing PR campaigns.

Responsibilities

• Scale the digital PR team and content marketing proposition.
• Create campaigns that deliver digital PR success for clients.
• Develop processes to analyze campaign data and pitch stories.

Skills

Digital PR

SEO Strategies

Content Marketing

Team Management

Campaign Development

Communication Skills

Job description

Head of Digital PR - Performance Marketing Agency

Salary - 45,000 to 50,000, dependent on experience, plus bonus
Location - Hybrid with 2 days per week in our Altrincham office

Dark Horse is a renowned digital marketing agency based near Manchester, specialising in SEO, PPC, Digital PR and Paid Social. With a diverse clientele and a commitment to delivering exceptional results, we're investing in levelling up our digital PR proposition to become the best agency at taking businesses from 7 to 8 figures.

The role

As a Head of Digital PR, you will be responsible for scaling the digital PR team and content marketing proposition. It will be your job to make sure that our clients get a demonstrable return from their investment. We want elite-level digital PR which combined with our SEO strategies will make our clients soar.

Own, develop and grow the content marketing and digital PR proposition.
Manage, inspire, develop, support and grow the digital PR team.
Create campaigns and strategies that deliver digital PR success for our SEO clients.
Organise and improve the ideation process to develop digital PR campaigns for a range of clients.
Develop processes to research and analyse campaign data to develop newsworthy stories and hooks.
Define and improve how we pitch stories and content to journalists and publications.
Develop a robust reporting process that aligns with the KPIs set for each client.
Work directly with a portfolio of key clients to develop and execute digital PR campaigns.

What's on offer

We think we've built a great place to work, where every individual feels rewarded for the effort they put in. Enjoy this along with:

Hybrid working
Flexitime
Bonuses based team performance
Birthday off, obvs
Leafy Altrincham location
Mental Wellbeing BUPA programme
Dark Horse will carbon offset your role with The Dark Forest (green is good)
Working in an amazing team - Learning from some fantastic people

The requirements

Proven experience in earning digital PR coverage and links in a variety of markets.
Hands-on experience of the end-to-end process of developing and executing successful PR campaigns.
Ability to manage and develop a team to deliver across multiple clients.
Someone who can generate ideas and knows what makes a good hook.
Someone who can research relevant information and data and make a story out of it.
Have a finger on the pulse of emerging trends in PR and journalism, with a drive to experiment.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
A results-oriented mindset focused on client performance and satisfaction.
All the gimmes - verbal, written & presenting skills, IT skills, pro-active, etc.

Success in this role hinges on utilising the team's collective skills and experience to create engaging stories, develop newsworthy content and successfully pitch to relevant publications and journalists.

If you're driven and ready to grow, we'd love to hear from you!