Location UK
Role
Full-Time
Conditions
Office (3 days a week – Tues, Wed, Thurs) and home – with occasional travel possible.
What we’re looking for.
What you will be doing.
Client management activities
* Build and manage effective client relationships.
* Develop, oversee and implement delivery of comms strategies, messaging, plans and timelines, driving forward key projects and ensuring objectives are met and budgets are adhered to.
* Devise innovative and engaging ways to drive positive media coverage across all media channels – print, broadcast and online.
* Continually drive creativity throughout the accounts and the wider company, delivering unique ideas for campaigns and activations that add value to the client proposition.
* Creating Thought Leadership content with key global Execs.
* Ultimate responsibility for all aspects of quality control across each account.
* Managing team members to ensure they deliver the highest quality communications support.
* Plan, organise and prioritise workloads of team members, with a particular focus on ensuring that actual resources used for individual clients correspond to the contracted resources, flagging any issues to senior staff members.
* As circumstances require, be prepared to carry out other day-to-day account work, such as writing press releases and setting up media opportunities.
Company management activities – team
* Provide professional guidance to junior team members to help them develop key skills and advance their careers.
* Undertake annual reviews and half-yearly appraisals for relevant team members.
* Act as solid and reliable support for senior team members.
* Solid communication skills with the ability to effectively manage upwards and down.
* Help to manage the team in producing market insights, including consumer, media and industry trends as well as being aware of competitor activity.
Company management activities – general
* Help to implement current processes and take initiative on improving processes within the team and wider company.
* Set up and run key meetings when required e.g. strategic planning sessions, brainstorms.
* Adopt a proactive approach to seeking out new business opportunities.
* Preparing and assisting with new business pitches/presentations, in collaboration with the agencies Leadership team.
What skills you will need.
* Passionate about delivering high quality and effective communications with previous experience of consumer communications.
* Able to demonstrate the delivery of results in both the PR and digital spheres.
* Experience of managing teams and a team player, happy to help with basic work when needed.
* Experience in and passion for the automotive industry.
* Equally comfortable working autonomously and liaising closely with senior management.
* A self-starter who conducts themselves in a professional manner at all times.
* Ability to juggle conflicting priorities and work in a fluid and fast-paced environment.
* A strong communicator, able to manage upwards as well as prioritise their own work.
* Possesses the gravitas to deal with senior stakeholders.
* A strategic and creative thinker.
* First-class organisational skills and excellent attention to detail.
* Experience managing photo and video shoots.
* Tenacious, driven and resilient, with the appetite to build the Company business.
Some of the benefits we offer.
* Healthy agency bonus scheme.
* £250 wellbeing allowance.
* Employee Assistance Programme, which offers access to therapy, guidance around diet, gym, meditation and career coaching as well as discounts on high street chains.
* Monthly internal training sessions.
* Walks and runs by the beautiful River Thames.
* Social activities (Summer / Christmas parties (and some in-between)).
* Cycle to Work scheme.
* 25 days holiday + 2 half-day flexi-days.
* 4.30 pm finish on Fridays.
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