PR Account Manager - Consumer

Red Consultancy; Greater London; Hybride; GBP 34 000 - 48 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Holiday allowance

Sabbatical leave

Hybrid working

Work-from-Anywhere allowance

Mentoring program

Cycle to Work

Résumé du poste

Red Consultancy, a leading UK PR agency, is recruiting a PR Account Manager for our Consumer team in London. You will work on high-profile brands across consumer tech, leisure and lifestyle, driving campaigns and building strong media relationships.

You will thrive in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple accounts, coordinating coverage, and mentoring junior colleagues while maintaining excellent communication with clients and media partners.

Qualifications

• Experience in fast-paced press offices and consumer media outreach.
• Established Account Manager with agency experience and client management skills.
• Excellent media relations with lifestyle titles, broadcast and national features writers.

Responsabilités

• Drive campaigns forward and coordinate activity across core accounts.
• Manage a range of coverage-generating techniques.
• Apply knowledge of news and social agenda to client campaigns to generate opportunities.
• Leverage contacts to secure top-tier coverage.
• Manage influencers and talent from negotiations to content delivery.
• Draft standout copy for media, influencers and owned social channels.
• Build strong client relationships and lead meetings with recommendations.
• Own projects from planning through delivery, reporting and evaluation.
• Support junior team members and ensure high-quality output.
• Manage budgets and resources, monitor profitability and scope.
• Identify opportunities to grow client accounts.
• Juggle multiple client and team needs.

Connaissances

Media relations

Communication

Team player

Creative writing

Influencer management

Description du poste

About Us

Red is a multi-specialist PR agency with strong consumer, corporate, technology and digital teams whose talent, creativity and passion continues to attract high profile clients. We’ve won multiple awards for our work across all key PR disciplines –150+ industry awards since we started over 31 years ago. We are recruiting for a PR Account Manager to join our Consumer team who work with great brands across consumer tech, leisure and lifestyle including home entertainment, gaming, travel and retail. We are looking for someone with experience across fast paced press offices, a team player with a passion for popular culture and a great eye for news, a creative brain who loves thinking big and thrives on bringing ambitious campaign ideas, to life someone who enjoys a busy and varied role and someone knowledgeable of and connected with a wide spectrum of media.

Some of the things you will be doing:

• Driving campaigns forward and coordinating activity across your core accounts
• Effectively managing a range of coverage-generating techniques
• Applying your knowledge of the news and social agenda to client campaigns and using it to generate opportunities
• Maximising your extensive contacts list to seek out opportunities, sell‑in and land top‑tier coverage
• Managing influencers and talent from negotiations and contracts through to content delivery
• Using your creative writing skills to draft stand‑out copy that will resonate with media, influencers and owned social channels
• Building strong day‑to‑day client relationships, confidently leading client meetings and providing advice and recommendations
• Taking ownership of projects and campaigns from planning through to delivery, reporting and evaluation
• Managing and supporting junior team members, delegating effectively and ensuring work is delivered to a high standard
• Managing account budgets and resources, keeping an eye on profitability and ensuring work is delivered within agreed scope
• Identifying opportunities to grow and develop your client accounts
• Juggling multiple client and team needs

Who you are:

• A hard worker who loves the constant variety and fast pace of a career in PR
• An established Account Manager looking for a new role on an exciting client mix.
• An excellent team player with great communication skills
• Excellent media relations within lifestyle titles, broadcast, and national news/ features writers
• Proficient in developing creative and impactful content for a variety of needs.

Brownie Points if…

• You have strong agency experience working with big brands.
• You have experience working with tech brands
• Socially minded, tapping into content and social trends along with knowledge of current and up and coming talent/influencers.

Some reasons to work at Red

• Competitive salaries benchmarked against the industry
• Generous holiday allowance plus extra days off around Christmas and the New Year
• Up to 10 weeks’ unpaid sabbatical leave (once you have 2.5 years service)
• Hybrid working: Tuesday to Thursday in the office, WFH on Mondays and Fridays. Plus, a Work-From-Anywhere allowance
• Active DEI Working Group celebrating Black History Month, Diwali, Pride, Ramadan, Lunar New Year, Rosh Hashanah and much much more
• Weekly personal hour to start at 10am, take a longer lunch break or finish at 4.30pm
• External mentoring via Creative Access for anyone from an under-represented background
• Premium access to Calm and access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Breakfast and an awesome snack box Tuesdays to Thursdays and a free bar every Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

At Red, we recognise that to deliver the best work for our clients, we need a diverse range of perspectives and experiences. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to ensuring best practice approaches to a diverse and inclusive recruitment process and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.