Pr Account Director

Recruiter
Confidential
Location
Cambridge
Salary
GBP45–55,000 + 15% bonus, generous
Posted
09 Apr 2021
Closes
07 May 2021
Job Title
Associate Director
Category
Sales
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Work from your home or the office, but with travel to the company's headquarters in Cambridge at least once a month

Salary: GBP45–55,000 + 15% bonus, generous pension scheme and many other benefits

The biggest attraction of this senior role by far is the exceptional working environment and the career prospects on offer. The level of responsibility and career opportunity will grow. Creative, well–run, ambitious and well–funded.

The Company:

We're passionate about how science can improve the world around us. Ultimately, our work helps to ensure that companies, scientists and healthcare experts find and understand the technologies they need to drive discovery, cure disease, improve crop yields and make the world a better place.

We do that by working with some of the world's most exciting companies, helping them to tell stories that educate, inform, entertain and inspire life science professionals across the globe in the pursuit of mutual growth and success.

Our core values make us unique and are key to our success. They work to unify our team and align our efforts to deliver our shared goals for the company and our clients. Our core values are:

* Do the right thing

* Get stuff done

* Do a ridiculously good job

* Be a modest expert

* Live to learn

* Be an analytical thinker

We're one of the fastest–growing life science marketing agencies in the world and are looking for talented individuals to join our excellent team. Is this you?

The Job:

You would be responsible for:

* Working as an Account Director across several PR clients, supported by a team of Account Managers and Account Executives

* Owning the client relationship at a strategic "peer–to–peer" level with senior client figures

* Creating integrated PR strategies and plans that are creative, impactful and help our clients achieve their goals

* Managing the execution of these PR plans, working with dedicated team members to support you, to deliver results on deadline and on budget

* Hands–on application of your extensive PR expertise across a range of event tactics including managing client participation at trade shows, running press conferences, delivering media training and leading onsite media meetings

* Reviewing content, assets and deliverables to ensure they are of high quality, effectively meet or exceed the brief and effectively communicate key client messages

* Building client relationships, managing projects and effectively communicating expectations, plans and results across the combined agency–client team

* Writing engaging proposals, pitching and securing new business

* Growing and building great relationships with the life science media through eloquent pitching and narrative creation

* Representing and supporting clients at international life science trade shows, including facilitating media meetings

* Nurturing junior team members, helping them to develop the skills necessary to be an industry–leading PR professional

* Working with the leadership team to uncover novel ways to support our current and future clients by suggesting innovative marketing communication solutions to help them further improve results over time

The Rewards:

* You will work either from home or in a brand–new office designed to give you the environment, the space, and the facilities to allow you to shine, or a combination of the two!

* Career opportunity based on merit, not time served that will exceed your expectations. Promotion opportunities as well as longer–term company equity possibilities are available.

* A level of dynamism within the company rarely found outside of a capital company, but set in a beautiful, leafy, well–served location.

* Mentoring by senior, prolific and successful entrepreneurs.

About You

You will have:

* At least 5 years of experience working in senior PR.

* Preferably with an interest in life science/healthcare.

* Must include some experience within an agency environment.

* Previous experience working with clients that operate globally – creating, managing and executing PR programmes that deliver results.

* Experience reviewing PR and project materials produced by the team (press releases, articles, media pitches, metrics reports etc.), providing insightful QA and QC input and ensuring the highest quality.

Interviews are immediately available

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