PR Account Director

PR Account Director £38,000 - £45,000 Company Benefits Location - Oxfordshire We’re looking for an experienced PR Account Director or Senior Account Manager with a strong track record in a fast-paced agency environment to lead a collaborative team delivering outstanding PR and integrated communications campaigns. Adept at providing strategic intelligent PR consultancy to B2B and B2C clients to maintain and develop successful long term relationships, you will be responsible for developing strategies and activities for clients and overseeing their execution. This is a full-time permanent role, based primarily in our client’s offices in Oxfordshire, with some travel to client meetings required. Our client offers a genuinely fantastic opportunity for career development with dedicated training programmes,an attractive salary and benefits package, and an environment that’s a great place to work, with a real focus on work-life balance and a sociable culture. If you want to take your career to the next level our client is a rapidly growing agency that offers real opportunity. If you thrive in a varied, fast-moving environment, you’ll fit right in leading our client’s collaborative team. If you have a can-do attitude and a love of helping clients overcome their challenges, you’ll share their pride in delivering excellent client service. If you’re fascinated how technology is transforming the way we live, we’d love to hear from you. About the role: The primary senior client contact across the account portfolio, building lasting relationships and encouraging organic growth of accounts, providing overarching strategic direction as well as tactical input into campaigns. Proactively providing intelligent and well thought through counsel on all aspects of clients’ PR and communications campaigns, managing expectation and satisfaction levels. Demonstrate ability to engage and influence stakeholders across the traditional and digital landscape to secure media coverage and other desired PR outcomes. Driving results and deploying clear understanding of metrics and evaluation techniques to demonstrate the ROI of PR and communications activities to clients. P&L responsibility for your client portfolio, working with senior agency team to direct agency resources, maintaining high levels of client satisfaction and developing the full potential of accounts. Mentor and develop team members, motivating them to deliver clients’ programmes to exceed expectations and develop successful long term client relationships while encouraging knowledge development to boost personal and team skill sets. Proactively contribution to the business development of the agency, becoming a trusted senior member of the team involved in all aspects of the business. Profile of candidate required: Strong track record of directing accounts in a fast-paced agency environment, ideally with experience of working in technology, marketing, telecoms and energy sectors and supporting clients growth into vertical markets Ability to leverage PR and communications expertise and apply wider business knowledge to provide intelligent counsel to a portfolio of clients Experience in leading and motivating teams with confidence, enthusiasm and tenacity to deliver multi-channel campaigns on time and on budget to achieve excellent results Responsive, flexible and adaptable - willing and able to combine strategic direction with hands-on delivery to ensure team succeeds A natural communicator with a flair for forging strong relationships with your team, clients, journalists and other stakeholders Thrives on variety and a fast-paced working environment as part of a close-knit team to exceed expectations Strong commercial nous - ability to identify and leverage opportunities to develop the full potential of accounts and new business opportunities; support agency growth, contribute to efficiencies and drive improvement initiatives This is an exciting opportunity to join an award-winning team - if this sounds like you, please get in touch ASAP either via this advert or via adam()liptonmedia.com Lipton Media is a dynamic, proactive and progressive media recruitment agency solely dedicated to the media industry. We are leaders across media sales and creative opportunities. We cover: media sales, digital media sales, print sales, exhibition sales, event sales, conference sales, outdoor sales, radio sales, marketing, conference production and editorial jobs and a full range of PR opportunities, both B2B and B2C. Our clients range from small start-up companies to FTSE 100 and 250 businesses. We work with people at every stage of their career from undergraduates looking for their first entry point into sales to senior managers and directors looking for their next challenge. Geographically we cover roles UK wide and internationally.