Senior Account Director / Associate Director - Consumer PR

Splendid Communications, an exciting and passionate PR Communications agency, is looking for a talented freelance Senior Account Director or Associate Director to join the team.

Working across high profile food, drink and retail consumer clients, the successful individual will have the opportunity to have a huge impact working across award-winning always-on activity and campaigns.

P eople-First is our mantra at Splendid. This means that we will nurture your passion and creativity to help you build a career that you love, as you hone your skills working for iconic brands and creating award-winning campaigns. We care deeply about inclusion and believe that team diversity enriches our collaborative culture and our work for clients. And People-First also means looking after our habitat, so we challenge ourselves to be kinder to the planet, which is why we’re partners with World Land Trust, working together with them on a range of sustainable practices with the goal of being carbon balanced. All these areas are covered by individual development objectives and business investment, so our people grow with the business.

At Splendid we aim for inclusion at every level of our business. We are keen to meet candidates from all backgrounds so please get in touch if your skills and experience match our job description. If we can help you by making any adjustments to our application process, please do let us know in your cover letter.

The role…

We are looking for an experienced Senior Account Director or Associate Director to join the senior team to lead one of our most high-profile consumer PR accounts as well as some smaller accounts.

You will have significant experience leading client teams in a consumer agency environment, with passion and experience in food and drink, retail and consumer lifestyle clients as well as delivering great results. You will also be a seasoned operator in leading, motivating and developing account teams.

What you’ll be doing…

• Lead and grow a key consumer food and drink client with a delivery team beneath
• Leading, motivating and developing the team to ensure that they produce creative, high-quality, award-winning work for the client
• Lead, manage and support the team to maximise personal growth and career opportunities within the agency
• Providing counsel and manage multiple senior client stakeholders and their needs
• Working in a highly detailed manner to ensure total clarity on strategy and planning
• Ensuring accounts you are leading are profitable and that budget reconciliations and post campaign reports are completed

What we need from you…

• Excellent client management skills with a proven track record of providing counsel to senior clients and influencing stakeholders
• Strong team-working skills, resilience and tenacity
• A passion for media relations with expert knowledge and confidence in media strategy and activation
• Strong commercial awareness, with a good understanding of working with client fee forecasts, writing accurate budgets, managing service levels and resource planning to ensure profitable and effective delivery of campaigns
• Strong strategic thinking, analytical skills and attention to detail, brave creativity and a drive to produce award-winning work
• Strategic planning and management skills to take a client brief through the planning process, integrate with other agencies above and below the line and oversee the delivery of activation
• Confidence and skill in responding to briefs with tight turnarounds and varying budgets to produce great creative work
• Strong presentation skills and ability to sell and up-sell ideas to clients
• Excellent writing skills including press releases to generate news and launch campaigns
• Excellent project management and problem-solving skills
• Experience of handling reactive crisis communication is desirable but not essential
• Bring your real self to work and thrive in an environment where everyone is welcome and good vibes and growth are the goals
• Strong UK experience is essential
• Available to work on-site at out East London offices 2 or 3 days a week