About the agency
- This international PR agency is known for its work across integrated campaigns, winning multiple PR Moment and PR Week awards for this in the last few years.
- As an international PR agency, they have offices and partner agencies in every continent, with 120 people in the London office working across all sectors, from tech to consumer to public affairs.
- Your client portfolio will centre around a prominent games publisher and developer that will occupy 50% of your time, alongside a world-leading camera brand that has been working with this agency for over 10 years.
- With the special emphasis on the gaming account, you could regularly be launching games and running large-scale brand campaigns – not just working on reviews/previews. So it’s an opportunity to put your passion and knowledge for video games to good use.
- Even from the London office, their work is global across both PR and influencer marketing, and they’ll offer you an opportunity to work not only on the consumer work but across broad integrated campaigns too.
Benefits
- 25 days’ holiday annually plus Christmas and bank holidays
- Hybrid working (encouraging at least 2 office days per week)
- Flexi Days – twice a week
- Day off on your birthday
- Enhanced maternity and paternity schemes (with qualifying criteria)
- Staff social events, Friday drinks, Thirsty Friday, summer and Christmas parties
On completion of probation:
- Bupa Dental Care, Private Health care (through Vitality Health) and Medicash (Cashback plan)
- Season ticket loan
- Work from anywhere (2 weeks per year)
- Mental Health Support and personal wellbeing plans
- Mental Health Awareness training for staff and managers and mental health First Aiders in each team
About the job
- This role is for an experienced Account Director or Senior Account Director with consumer PR experience. Any experience in gaming is key for this role, and interest in brands and consumer tech is a bonus.
- Your portfolio will be rooted in 2 key accounts in the gaming/consumer tech space.
- Your key responsibilities will surround strategy and planning across a variety of campaigns, ideating on the creative for clients and leading on the day to day.
- You’ll also have an opportunity to drive forward new business opportunities, alongside the senior team.
- It’ll be important to lead by example and get stuck into the selling-in at times too, whilst guiding and training your juniors.
About you
- To be considered for this role you’ll need to be an experienced PR Account Director or Senior Account Director with agency side experience. Candidates from an inhouse background will be considered if they have had agency experience at some point.
- You’ll need to have big brand consumer and gaming PR experience in this role.
- You’ll have the gravitas and experience to maintain and develop client relationships, as well as handling challenges in this sphere.
- Having a proven track record in strategising campaigns on a varying level of budgets and having strong creative input will be essential in this role.
- You’ll have a strong grasp of media relations with an excellent network of contacts.
- An excellent understanding of the evolving media landscape with knowledge of developments in the games industry is essential too.
- You’ll be experienced in managing client budgets and looking how to best utilise team resources.
- You’ll have experience in training junior staff and having a hand in guiding this programme in an agency setting.
For more information, please contact Satchit Srikanth on 07438495944 or email [email protected]. Apply by clicking the button below.