PR Account Manager - Corporate

This is an exciting opportunity to join a multi award-winning PR & Communications agency that truly creates advantage for our clients. We care passionately about our people too and we’re the proud winner of PR Week’s ‘Best Place to Work’ award. From public affairs to consumer PR, crisis management and everything in between, they help clients across the UK and around the world to build their brand, implement effective comms strategies and engage with their audiences better than ever before.
Purpose of role
We are looking for excellent communicators, team players, creative thinkers and naturally curious individuals to join the award-winning Corporate and B2B PR team as Account Manager. Based in Central London, you would be working across a variety of sectors including technology, healthcare, consumer brands, professional and financial services, public sector and community engagement.
The Account Manager is responsible for managing the delivery of effective and creative PR solutions which surprise and delight clients by building strong relationships with the media and client teams and by managing internal teams and processes skillfully.
Accountabilities

• Utilises knowledge of traditional and digital media to maximise PR opportunities, promoting the range of PR services available to clients, managing and supporting the Account Executive/Senior Account Executive in the delivery of their roles
• Interprets and responds to client briefs and develops effective communication strategies using media expertise, creativity tools and data driven insights, resulting in creative solutions and advice for the benefit of the client
• Contributes to crisis management plans and provides support to senior consultants
• Creates news stories and builds media relationships that will deliver coverage, using the full range of approaches
• Contributes to new business solutions
• Assists the senior management team in developing long term client satisfaction
• Monitors the media landscape for new opportunities to sell in additional Grayling products and services to clients to enhance revenue and profitability
• Understands and manages the relationship between client service and profitability
• Connects with colleagues from across the global Grayling network, leveraging opportunities to work together to enhance professional development and learning
• Manages personal and team time meticulously as well as assisting junior staff in managing their workloads
• Seeks out training initiatives and learning opportunities to enhance personal and team development
• Manages and develops junior staff, resolving or escalating issues promptly and fairly, and celebrating achievements
• Develops a personal network of internal and external industry contacts, identifying new business opportunities resulting from these contacts to the benefit of the business

• Strong understanding of both traditional and digital public relations
• Digitally savvy
• Curious – a desire to learn, improve, apply new knowledge and develop self
• Excellent grasp of clients’ marketplaces, audiences and routes to market
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Creative thinker and problem solver
• Commercially aware and decisive
• Confident networker
• Organised with excellent time management skills
• Supportive, inspiring and motivational team player
• Personal drive and passion for the industry
• Self-aware and able to adapt personal style and approach to clients and team
• Ability to juggle multiple and changing priorities
• Ability to assimilate information quickly and recommend a practical response

• A highly competitive salary & benefits package.
• An exciting and dynamic working environment (in a newly refurbished, creative work space)
• An incredibly positive and supportive work culture driven purely by our values (curious, committed & connected).
• Regular team socials and early finish Fridays.
• An abundance of personal development opportunities, with courses ranging from writing, resilience, creativity and more!
• Flexible working arrangements.
• 25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.
• New business and employee referral bonuses.
• Cycle to work scheme
• PRCA membership
• Health & wellbeing programmes