PR Account Director – Purpose

About the agency

Founded in the midst of the COVID chaos, this agency proved that when you have a good business model, the timing for success doesn’t matter. 

In less than two years they’ve grown to a team of 7, won a major UK’s renewable energy brand as a client, and created a culture that ensures work-life balance. They are delivering work that you’d be proud of. From campaigning to stop oil production, to helping clients get on the BBC to talk about child protection, they are delivering work that has a positive impact on the world. 

If you want to go to work each day knowing that you are having a positive impact, this is an agency to join. 

Their clients include (but are not limited to):

• Major renewable energy provider
• A VC firm investing in not-for-profit tech-focused purely on stopping climate change
• A company driving the UK’s push towards electric vehicles 
• A brand that’s helping stop job application fraud 

Culture

This agency has a beautiful open-plan office, a great work/life balance and provide the team with a lot of autonomy. That means you are given the chance to own and lead projects but with a helping hand when needed. It’s a place where you will feel empowered to do your best work. 

Working here will give you the chance to improve professionally. They’ve taken the team on acting courses to help build self-confidence and had top-tier journalists come into the office to help improve the team’s pitching skills. Each individual is set a tailored training & development program on arriving at the agency.  

Due to the founders background, you’ll get the chance to utilise his connections and have dinner with editors / senior journalists from major media outlies such as The Times, The Telegraph and Bloomberg. 

They also regularly have team socials. 

Benefits include:

• Bonus: 10% of new business fees from business you have generated 
• Additional 3% pension contribution 
• Gympass membership
• 25 days holiday 
• Flexible working 
• + more to come as the agency develops 

About the job

• This Account Director position will have you focus on Harpswood’s portfolio of clients, spanning the corporate, tech and consumer.
  
• You will be required to produce engaging pitches and be confident in leading innovative campaigns that truly represent the values of the agency and the clients
  
• Drive strategic thinking across accounts and manage your team to ensure projects are delivered to a high standard
• Ensure that press releases and thought leadership articles are consistently delivered to a high standard
• Manage regular review meetings with clients as well as your junior team members to ensure everyone is happy and the content being produced is always successful – even assessing the commercial aspect of client accounts to ensure your campaigns are profitable

About you 

• You will be an established Account Director or a strong Senior Account Manager ready for that step up and already working within the corporate, tech or consumer sector
  
• You will ideally have a cross-discipline of PR and social experience, having the ability to engage in the social aspect of the campaigns you produce
  
• Be able to successfully assess rapidly changing industry trends and apply that in to your portfolio of work
  
• Previous experience managing juniors as well as the upkeep of client relations, you will then apply this into the role at Harpswood
  
• Be a strategic thinker and bring new and exciting ideas to the agency

For more information, please contact Sophie Hatt on 07450 421078 or email [email protected]. Apply by clicking the button below.