J/PR UK
Location:London, UK
Field:PR/Communications
Min. Experience:5+year(s)
Basis:Full-time
Description:
J/PR is a global communications firm specialising in public relations, content creation, and social media. We work with some of the best hotels, resorts and lifestyle brands in the world, including Relais & Chateaux, Iconic Luxury Hotels, Beaverbrook and Hilton Luxury Brands to name a few. You can see our current client list here. Being a part of this international powerhouse agency will connect you to a roster of distinguished hotels, resorts, restaurants, real estate projects, and destinations across the globe, elevating your career (and your frequent flier status). We tell compelling original stories to connect brands to their target audiences. We’re passionate, professional, and purpose-driven. We're dedicated to our work, the agency, our clients, and each other.
Forbes said “These are the Women Dictating Where You’re Traveling,” and Inc. Magazine featured J/PR in an article titled, “How Two Millennial-ish Women Built a PR Powerhouse.” This is in addition to numerous awards like PR News Best Places to Work, New York Observer PR Power 5 for five years in a row, The PR Net 100, Forbes Five Star Agency, PR Couture Spotlight Agency of the Year, and Crain’s Best Places to Work (to name a few).
At J/PR, we’re incredibly intentional about our company culture, and we wholeheartedly believe in a work-life blend, where you'll be empowered to continue learning and growing through travel, mentorship, training, and retreats, along with a connected company culture.
Who are you?
Creative, collaborative, connected. You strive to be your best, and help others be their best. You’re driven, dedicated, strategic and solution-oriented. You bring a time-tested roster of media and influencer relationships, and proven experience implementing successful campaigns for brands both big and small. You are equal parts client services, account management and team mentorship.
The Role:
As the Account Manager/Senior Account Manager, you are taking a bigger role in strategy and thought leadership, getting those impressive powerhouse placements, mentoring your teams, managing direct reports (helping them set goals to continue growing and developing), and conducting annual reviews. You’ll have the opportunity to be the day-to-day lead on smaller accounts, managing internal delegation, while also starting to step into account strategy with a Director’s help. This means you’ll own the process for creating year-long strategies for our clients (putting together the template, delegating slides, and leading creative brainstorming) and will also be learning how to anticipate the client’s needs before they even ask. You’ll be busy attending Group Press Trips, are beginning to join pitches for new business, and are upping your media relations game to focus more on KPI’s and bigger placements and stories. This is the level where you’ll also start handling the contract renewal process, as well as new contracts for new clients/ new business. You’ll also regularly attend industry events and raise your hand to participate in webinars and virtual events when able.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Account + Client Management
- Manage day-to-day client activities, including communication, research, planning, implementation, and evaluation of public relations activities, and paying careful attention to budgets, resources, deadlines, and client expectations
- Strategically and quickly react to client needsLead your accounts through their 90 day goals, adapting, evolving and enhancing the tactics along the way
- Lead small accounts seamlessly, moving towards bigger leadership opportunities
- Develop and implement creative & media worthy programmes
- Create the strategy as an Account Lead on some accounts, asking for support from the Leadership Team when necessary
- Begin to utilise Harvest to manage team member’s time and account profitability
- Develop press worthy programmes and ideas for clients
Media Relations
- You are a master at creating buzz-worthy collaborations or spinning basic info into a bigger story
- You have a solid, trusted network of A+ media relationships whom you can tap on a moment's notice
New Business
- Regularly participate in J/PR new business pitching, with the ability to articulately define what sets us apart
Team Leadership
- Manage direct report(s), providing leadership, guidance, feedback and coaching to direct report(s) and account teams
- Provide support and guidance for account team members
- Support and offer insight as needed to senior leadership
- Manage your direct reports, helping them set goals to continue growing and developing, coaching and offering feedback, and conducting check-ins and annual reviews
J/PR / Industry
- Weave your industry involvement into the collective knowledge base of the agency, reporting back on insightful information and creating opportunities for clients
- Responsible for developing one educational based workshops each year
Other
- And other tasks, projects, or duties as required
Experience:
- University Degree or comparable experience required
- At least 5 years of public relations experience in the hospitality, culinary, travel, tourism, restaurant arenas
- Must have stellar client and media references
- Must have strong and proven relationships with local, regional, and national media contacts
- Must have strong, effective, and proven management skills
Requirements:
- Ability to travel for client needs
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Office, PowerPoint & Adobe Suite
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, experience in a hospitality environment is a plus
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Must be able to identify and resolve problems in a timely manner
- Strong knowledge of media and news cycles
- Ability to thrive in a deadline-driven environment
- Strong understanding of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
- Foundational understanding of Influencer engagement
- Polished and professional demeanor Self-motivated with a positive nature
Benefits:
J/PR offers a competitive benefits package, inclusive of but not limited to:
- Competitive base salary based on skills and experience
- New business commission (10%)Summer Fridays (finish at 1pm)
- Hotel trade with our world-class clients (complimentary stays across our entire portfolio)
- Beautiful, dog-friendly offices
- Corporate rate at ClassPassAnnual holiday and summer parties, plus regular socials
- Ongoing training and development opportunities Flexi-hours (Fridays WFH)
- Office swaps to our US offices
- Mobile phone stipend 20 days annual leave + 5 wellness days Day off on birthday
- Milestone gifts at five and 10 year anniversaries
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