PR Account Director - Consumer

Brands2Life; London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading PR agency seeks a talented Account Director to join their consumer team in London. The successful candidate will demonstrate significant experience in consumer PR, exceptional client handling, and a proven ability to manage diverse PR campaigns across various sectors, potentially including lifestyle, tech, and travel.

Benefits

Health and dental insurance

Flexible working hours

Two-month sabbatical after four years

Regular training and personal development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experienced in leading consumer PR campaigns.
• Strong media contacts and excellent news instincts.
• Proven track record in account management.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day account activity and build story pipelines.
• Act as main client contact providing counsel.
• Motivate and support team growth.

Skills

Client handling

Account management

Media relations

Storytelling

Job description

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With our consumer team growing, we’re looking for a talented team lead ready to take the next step in their career.

You’ll be a well-rounded consumer PR professional with experience leading brand conversation across a variety of sectors. Experience in Consumer Tech is a plus, but not essential.

You’ll bring sharp news instincts, strong media contacts and a hands-on, team-first mindset.

Exceptional client handling, account management, and attention to detail are important, along with strong writing skills – from press materials to pitch decks! And, being confidently ready to present them too with compelling storytelling!

Why us?

We work with some of the best brands in the business from Booking.com through to Nikon, Vitality Health Insurance through to various gaming brands. Delivering award-winning, creative work is at the heart of what we do alongside running busy day-to-day press offices and staying on top of the media agenda to hijack the news.

Our consumer clients have such an exciting mix of sectors – we’ve something for everyone, no two days are the same.

What we’re looking for?

We’re looking for a passionate, proactive AD with a strong understanding of the consumer media landscape – and the contacts to match. Ideally, you’ll bring experience and interest in sectors like consumer tech, lifestyle in general, travel, gaming, sports and health.

You’ll be happy to have a great mix of clients.

You’ll be a team player who leads from the front, happy to manage up and down, and ready to get stuck in – no task too big or small.

In this role, you will:

• Lead day-to-day account activity, ensuring excellent delivery of the day to day activity and building a pipeline of stories, always looking ahead and thinking of the bigger picture – exceeding client expectations.
• Be the main client contact, providing thoughtful counsel and fostering strong relationships.
• Motivate and support your team, helping them grow and succeed.
• Drive standout media relations with top-tier contacts across national, lifestyle and online titles.
• Support new business– writing proposals and pitch decks, and developing ideas with clarity and confidence

All employees at Brands2Life are offered a fantastic working environment, excellent long-term career opportunities and highly competitive range of benefits. We offer regular internal and external training (at all levels), 360 reviews, personal development plans, health and dental insurance, flexible working, and plenty of company socials. As well as all of that, we offer a two-month sabbatical after four years (paid!!).

As of December 2023, Brands2Life has been part of the Paritee agency platform, a new kind of network that combines the best of large agency thinking and entrepreneurial excellence. Paritee has a vision to create a new breed of agency network and model for collaboration, one that brings together National Champion agencies in each key market and enables them to co-operate for mutual benefit and to provide clients with world-class services and advice, based on deep sector insight.

*Brands2Life is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all backgrounds. We believe a diverse and inclusive workforce enhances our ability to be creative, innovative and entrepreneurial. We do not discriminate against applicants or employees because of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, marital status or citizenship status.

If your application for employment is unsuccessful, Brands2life will hold your data on file for 3 years after the end of the relevant recruitment process. If you agree to allow Brands2life to keep your personal data on file, we will hold your data on file for a further 2 years for consideration for future employment opportunities. At the end of that period [or once you withdraw your consent], your data is deleted or destroyed. If you do not want your information stored, please let us know and we can make the necessary changes.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Director

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Public Relations

• Industries

  Public Relations and Communications Services and Marketing Services

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