Location
Guildford, Surrey | United Kingdom
Job description
Overview
We have a great opportunity for a PR Account Manager to join this fantastic organisation. As an Account Manager you will be responsible for building and maintaining strong client relationships and delivering agreed client activity. You will be required to develop client proposals and plans, ultimately leading to the expansion of each account as well being involved in the development of financial budgets.
Salary: £28,000 to £32,000
The Role
- Build and develop close relationships with clients.
- Develop PR proposals and plans supporting their marketing and sales objectives
- Conduct regular client meetings to discuss ongoing activity delivery and ensure prompt distribution of minutes from those meetings.
- Drive forward the delivery of your client’s PR campaigns/activities including managing the writing of press releases, extended articles, brochure/catalogue entries, advertisements and promotional material.
- Maintain regular contact with your clients updating then regularly with the progress of their work.
- Identify new media and PR opportunities for your clients and make recommendations for PR activity to the client.
- Be an expert in your clients’ businesses, reading appropriate media; become familiar with their markets, business strategies, competitors and general industry news.
- Attend client events where relevant including trade shows, product launches, conferences, hospitality events
- Build and maintain relationships with each client’s target media through regular contact including face-to-face briefings where appropriate
- Contact the media to secure PR opportunities, set up meetings with editors/journalists, secure participation at client events and generally build relationships with the media on behalf of clients.
- Distribute and pick up media coverage including follow up phone calls and accurate collation of coverage for end of month/yearly reporting.
- Help to identify new business prospects by keeping abreast of industry news, actively seeking out new companies and bringing them to the attention of the team.
- Attend relevant events on behalf of the agency where appropriate.
The Person
- Excellent proven communications skills – both written and verbal and attention to detail
- In-depth knowledge of PR industry processes and practices
- Knowledge of Microsoft Office
- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills
- Ability to demonstrate an innovative and problem-solving approach to issues
- Interest in current affairs
- Ability to work as part of a team, manage own workload
- Work under pressure ensuring deadlines are met, including managing multiple PR programmes
Skills Required:
- 2+ years PR experience ideally in a B2B environment
- Experienced in delivering pitches to clients
- Social Media and SEO experience
- Educated to degree level (English or PR preferred however not essential
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