PR Associate EMEA

Mattel; Chalvey; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Mattel in the UK is looking for a self-motivated PR Associate in the early stages of your career to join our in-house team. Reporting to the PR Manager, you will support first‑class brand PR campaigns and events for the UK market, drawing on agency and internal resources.

This role provides exposure across EMEA, opportunities to develop campaign management and media relations skills, and involvement in coordinating messaging, assets and press materials for partners and franchise collaborations.

Qualifications

• Experience in PR agencies or busy in-house press office.
• Some PR campaign management or PR account experience preferred.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Support to execute integrated brand PR campaigns for UK market.
• Coordinate assets, messaging and materials for EMEA.
• Drive trade shows and manage press materials for partners.
• Administer PR inbox and coordinate with market agencies.
• Raise PO's and handle finance systems for budgets.

Skills

PR experience

Campaign management

Media relations

Job description

• Compensation: GBP 37,440 - GBP 44,460 - yearly

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER.It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

The Team:

We are the superstar communicators of our company. We look after the reputation and raise positive awareness and share of voice of Mattel in the UK and across EMEA as a leading global toy and family entertainment company and owner of one of the most iconic brand portfolios in the world, while being culturally relevant in society to drive leadership, confidence and recognition across a wide spectrum of internal and external stakeholders.

Job Description

The Opportunity:

A once in a lifetime opportunity to join our in-house PR team in the UK as part of the wider EMEA comms group. Reporting to the PR Manager, we are looking for a self-motivated and well-organized PR Associate who is in their early years of developing their PR career who has experience working in PR agencies or a busy in-house press office, and ideally has some PR campaign management or PR account experience.

What Your Impact Will Be:

• Working directly with the PR Manager and PR Lead, supporting to execute first class integrated brand PR campaigns and events for UK market, with creative frameworks and concepts that can be used in the rest of the EMEA markets.
• Act as hub for creative, messaging, assets and materials for rest of EMEA driving best practise and efficiencies.
• Drive trade shows both in the UK and across EMEA
• Coordinate network of PR agencies from coverage reports to vetting press and media lists
• Administer EMEA press inbox with inbound requests distributing them accordingly to market agencies
• Sign off press materials for franchise partners
• Media sell in experience
• Manage finance systems, raising PO’s and logging in finance systems

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For:

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