The Agency
An independent, creative communications agency built across the pillars of Digital, Communications, Studio and Production, they are around 20-strong and growing, Based in London, founded by two experienced integrated marketeers from a large well known agency.
Already house a roster of big brand clients in consumer, environment, education, technology and lifestyle. They produce big campaigns with healthy budgets and clients are a mix of UK and global.
Great culture built on trust and equity. Strong agency values and good training opportunities. Hybrid working with 2 / 3 days in the office.
The Role
This new role for The Prophets is integral to help us in our next stage of growth for our integrated communications team. We are nearly 5 years old and have enjoyed exponential growth over the past 12 months. We are looking for an Account Director to work alongside our Head of Earned and Associate Director to deliver best in practice communications for oiur clients.
Qualifications:
This role requires strong earned media experience, pivotal to managing the day-to-day requirements on both ongoing retained and project workstreams. The campaigns we are running span everything from sports and lifestyle through to travel and property. We don’t specialise and believe in the power of storytelling; that a compelling narrative can work across any section of the media.
To succeed, you will need to be both hands-on and proactive, extremely nimble, organised and efficient, with the ability to manage multiple client workstreams concurrently.
- As an integral member of the communications team, a sound knowledge of the news agenda across consumer, lifestyle as well as news generation is key. Proactivity and identifying opportunities within the media for better creative output and practises are crucial – to retain ongoing workstreams and land larger creative projects
- Ability to work independently and as part of a wider team to ensure end-to-end delivery of all campaign work and BAU media office
- A clear communicator who is capable of planning ahead and managing multiple team members across any one campaign
- Identify new opportunities for clients, being able to present and deliver in a compelling way and managing junior staff members to report efficiently
- The ability to write and edit long-form content, media releases messaging and copy for clients is a prerequisite
- Working as part of the wider pitch delivery team for all prospect business: this includes ideation, development of ideas and presenting
- Providing counsel for clients and advice / recommedations as requested
Day-to-day responsibilities
- Senior contact for client accounts
- Managing client service and agency performance
- Overseeing communications campaigns from creative brief to implementation and delivery
- Analysing communications outcomes and interpreting data
- Delegating to and managing the communications and publicity specialists
- Nurturing talent within the communications team
- Winning new business and developing current client accounts
- Contributing to the overall business
- Work with finance team to develop budgets for campaign work
Please get in touch today to find out more – lorraine@utterclub.com
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