Splendid Communications, an exciting and passionate PR Communications agency, is looking for a talented 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 Associate Director to join the senior team and 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
Benefits:
Take breaks with 25 days of paid holiday a year, plus eight bank holidays. This rises by 1 day for each year of service to a maximum of 30 days 😊
Celebrate your Birthday with an additional day off 🎂
Christmas Close Down – we close our office between Christmas and New Year, so we give you 3 days extra days off for the festive period🎄
Balance work and home life with our Hybrid working policy – working up to 3 days from home and 2 days a week in the office (across Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday) 💻
Early 4.30 pm finish on Friday 🙌
Headspace hour - 1 hour guaranteed meeting free per day
Sabbaticals - after 3 years’ service
Work from anywhere for a calendar month- after 2 years’ service
Working late – we don’t encourage late working but if you do have to work after 9 pm, we will pay for a taxi to get you home safely and provide food
Discretionary annual bonus scheme as well as bonuses available for new business wins and recruitment referrals
Enhanced parental pay (varies on service levels)
Look after your health with access to WeCare, a 24/7 online GP, mental health support service, get fit programme and more
Get day-to-day access to support from our in-house Head of Wellbeing
Invest in your personal growth with a £100 yearly fund
Mingle with the team at our monthly all-agency socials, Summer and Christmas parties
Stay connected with a company use iPhone
Build your future with our pension scheme
Get fit during your commutes with our Ride to Work scheme
Prefer to take public transport? We can give you a travel loan, interest free!
Lunch provided on a Thursday in the office
Yummy snacks and drinks for those that get peckish during the day
Please note due to holidays applications will be reviewed at the end of August.
Splendid Communications
A renowned communications agency specializing in PR and social media campaigns for FMCG and travel brands.
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