PR Account Manager

Job Description

Central Employment are working with an established B2B & B2C integrated agency based in the North East, as they look to expand and recruit a client facing PR Account Manager.

Up to £36,000 DOE + benefits

Newcastle based, hybrid x 2 days from home

Reporting into the Account Director, you’ll be working in a highly supportive team, handling campaigns for some of the North East's leading brands, you can expect to work on a range of activities that span media relations, content creation, social media, influencer outreach, events, brand development and marketing communications.

Main responsibilities:

• Ensuring the effective day-to-day progress of client work in accordance with the campaign plan, objectives and budgets
• Excellent functional knowledge of integrated studio work and processes: ideally you will also have experience of working on large-scale integrated/PR campaigns
• An ability to communicate with clients and team (written and verbal) to a high professional standard
• Great attention to detail in the scoping, pricing and sign-off procedures
• Assisting on new work pitches and proposal writing if required
• Ensuring regular client contact
• Be self-starting and able to make appropriate day-to-day decisions on your client work

Experience required:

• Experience of planning and delivering integrated marketing & PR campaigns that align with client goals
• A background from within an integrated marketing agency, 2-3 yrs
• A good understanding of PR/Communications
• A creative writer
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to influence across all levels
• Excellent project management capabilities
• Able to think ahead to see any issues arising for clients or self, so that these can be avoided/handled effectively
• Confidence in personal decision-making
• Creative thinker and solution-finder
• Confident contributor to internal and external meetings
• Happiest when the team is succeeding

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