PR Account Director

  • Full-time

Company Description

Taylor Herring is an award-winning PR, social media, and Influencer creative agency that delivers solid business outcomes for its consumer brand clients through smart thinking, creativity, and innovation. The agency is famous for its eye- catching, creative campaigns – which generate headlines, crash social media timelines, capture the imagination and inspire people to take notice. Commercially and creatively driven, we deliver long-running PR programs as well as high-impact launch moments for consumer and entertainment brands.

Taylor Herring has won more PR Week awards than any other agency in the past decade, has been Campaign’s Agency of The Year twice the past three years.

Our offices in Chancery Lane, creativity, award-winning work, industry-famous Christmas parties, and team spirit continue to attract some of the best talent in the world, plus the Taylor Herring and St Marks (our production company) crew are a great bunch of people – passionate, smart, adventurous, creative, determined, supportive, collaborative, we are a tight-knit community of like- minded souls all in pursuit of the best work, and having a good time while we’re at it.

Job Description

The Overview

You will be:

  • Leading the day-to-day client account management and counsel as part of a team on retained client accounts including the food (Subway and Mcvities) and financial (NatWest – consumer PR) sectors
  • Leading project activations from brief to execution across regular house hold-name clients including Disney, Apple TV, Kellogg’s, and TV network UKTV amongst others
  • Participating in all-agency brainstorms for new client briefs across the business and leading the brainstorm for your own client briefs as required
  • Be part of the team pitching creative ideas to clients and securing budgets
  • Leading media sell in’s, managing an effective media strategy and team briefing to ensure maximum coverage results
  • Supporting the management and development of junior team members on your accounts/team, including effective resource-planning and time management
  • Responsible for providing informative and meaningful client reporting

Qualifications

  • Demonstrable experience at a PR Account Director level for consumer brands (or similar experience)
  • Project management and execution
  • Excellent use of Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
  • Client management and reporting
  • Contract drafting (for clients and suppliers)
  • Pitch writing and presenting
  • Budget creation and management
  • Junior Staff Management
  • Cross-Agency working experience if possible

Additional Information

We believe diversity drives innovation and creativity. It connects us closer to our clients and the audiences we serve. So we’re shaping an inclusive agency culture where difference is valued. We celebrate the diverse voices of our team. As part of our dedication to create an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Groupe UK is committed to equal access to opportunity for people without regard to race, age, sex, disability, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, gender identity or religion. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments for employees with disabilities and for candidates in our application process.  If you need assistance or adjustment due to a disability, please contact us.

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