PR Account Director

AF Selection; Manchester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading PR agency in Manchester as a PR Account Director, where you'll leverage your extensive PR experience to lead client programs and develop innovative strategies. This role offers an inspiring work environment, opportunities for career development, and the chance to work with internationally recognized brands.

Qualifications

• Extensive PR agency experience with big names.
• Management skills to nurture and develop teams.
• Creative and innovative PR practitioner.

Responsibilities

• Develop PR, social, and content strategies for brands.
• Manage client relationships and advise on impactful activities.
• Support team development through mentoring and guidance.

Skills

Account handling

Creative thinking

Team management

B2C PR expertise

Social media knowledge

Job description

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As a PR Account Director, you’ll understand that careers sometimes don’t go how you want them to – they’re full of ups and downs that are sometimes beyond your control. Quite like this mega agency in the heart of Manchester, who’ve come through recessions and many market upturns, but through their relentless vision and tenacity have become one of the most talked about in the Northwest.

Their capabilities cover everything that sits under the PR umbrella and, boy do they deliver! It’s all underpinned by a culture that embraces everyone, and gives each person the best chances, as humanly possible, to enjoy what they do and have brighter career prospects, which is why people stay for long periods.

The role

This agency is without doubt, one of the most respected in the region, and you will be given every chance to build a successful new chapter in your PR career. Acknowledged as one of the most innovative agencies in the area, they’ve always adopted a flexible working policy and have some superb benefits, not to mention the fact that you’ll be joining a team which has won many awards and accolades over the years. You will also be given the chance to work on clients which have an international presence.

They are in the process of growing their senior team and this PR Account Director position is ideal for someone with experience advising organisations at a senior level, and enjoys leading client programmes and developing teams, through mentoring, encouragement and guidance. This role is mainly B2C with a hint of B2B, and these relationships are the result of sustained, high standards: it goes without saying that you’ll share these values, too.

You’ll probably realise that you’ll be the trusted advisor and day-to-day point of contact for your clients, advising them on, and implementing, the most impactful activity to achieve their objectives, ensuring you add real value to their business. To help you make these relationships work, you’ll have some great people around you who will all help you achieve your aims.

The role will involve developing PR, social and content strategies and solutions for the brands, handling communication issues at all levels, ensuring meaningful results are achieved. The most attractive element of this role is that will work in a supportive environment with an inspiring team who are all dedicated to the success and growth of this award-winning agency.

What we’re looking for

We’re after a PR Account Director who enjoys immersing themselves in their clients, developing an understanding of their business, objectives, and strategy as well as their competitors and you’ll need to be someone who recognises how your work can make a real difference to their business. You’ll have great account handling skills, lots of initiative, a creative spark, and be the type who is always looking for opportunities to help your clients prosper. You won’t mind getting your sleeves rolled up. Apart from your expertise in B2C PR, you’ll also have wider experience of social media as well as management skills to nurture and develop your team.

This opportunity will most likely suit a creative and innovative PR practitioner, who’s used to working with big names in the PR world, coupled with solid agency-based PR experience. Knowledge of the PR and digital space is important, and a strong sense of what works across social channels is quite handy.

We’re after someone who’s lively and bursting with ideas and would thrive in a setting that has a real buzz and energy, and where there is a clear path for your career and personal development. We need someone who is happy to get stuck into everything and isn’t afraid to put their ideas forward with passion and persuasion.