account executive Leeds, England
Job description
Location: Leeds
Working pattern: Hybrid
About the role
We’re looking for a driven and ambitious and naturally curious PR Senior Account Executive to join our Grayling Leeds office.
As a Senior Account Executive, you’ll be responsible for delivering excellent day-to-day client work, and playing a key role within the team to ensure that work is delivered on multiple accounts of various sizes. There will be a mix of both B2B and consumer accounts spanning engineering, tech, finance, retail, transport and hospitality.
The day to day
- You’ll play a crucial role in the delivery of PR campaigns for your clients including developing compelling press releases, landing media coverage, engaging with influencers, and delivering social media campaigns.
- Conduct media relations activities, including media monitoring, trends analysis, opportunity-spotting and media liaison
- Build and manage media and forward feature lists and recommends appropriate opportunities to target
- Conduct effective media sell-ins & identify the most advantageous opportunities for client coverage
- Deliver accurate written communication across a range of copy including: press releases, quotes, emails, status & contact reports, social media materials
- Manage departmental administration and support the team, ensuring internal processes are followed
- Build and manage top-tier media relationships
- Assist in the new business process including idea contribution, research and proposal preparation
- Supervise Account Executives
- Monitor the media landscape for new opportunities to sell in additional Grayling products and services to clients to enhance revenue and profitability
About you
- Proven experience of working on a mix of consumer and B2B campaigns
- Strong understanding of both traditional and digital public relations
- A solid grounding in media relations, with a successful track record of pitching stories to national, trade and online media
- Curious – a desire to learn, improve, apply new knowledge and develop self
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Creative thinker and problem solver
- 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
What you can expect?
You can expect an energetic working environment in our Leeds office, which has recently relocated to a fantastic new office down the river Aire in Leeds Dock. It houses a bar and coffee shop-come-restaurant open to the public so the team will be sure to enjoy regular socials, community events and discounts for a gym just a few doors down!
Grayling Leeds, along with their sister office in Manchester make up Grayling North, a team of consumer, corporate, creative, PA and digital experts, and there’s plenty of cross-office working and socialising so you’ll get to know the wider team quickly.
You’ll get great exposure to some major household names from the get-go. Our clients include Yo!, HSBC, Leeds Bradford Airport, HSBC, Cummins, First Bus British Glass and Co-op.
We plan regular team socials to get out of the office and try something new, and we finish early on Fridays. Other benefits include a competitive salary, flexible working, free fruit, a company pension scheme, discounted gyms and an increasing holiday scheme (starting at 25 up to 30 days).
We encourage personal development and will set out a clear career path for you. From day one you will be given autonomy and exposure to our interesting and varied clients. You’ll also be able to sign up to our range of training workshops, from writing courses to sessions on commercial finance, resilience, creativity and many more! Hosted around our office network, they’re also a great opportunity to meet colleagues from across the UK.
With excellent staff retention and progression, forward-thinking benefits and a supportive and dynamic working culture, we are looking for our next northern team member who can demonstrate passion, ambition, a can-do attitude and an eagerness to learn.
About us
We’re Grayling UK, 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, we 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.
We are proudly part of Accordience. Accordience is an international public relations, public affairs, financial and corporate communications group – made up of Grayling, Citigate Dewe Rogerson (CDR), Red and Cirkle. Together, we have c.1,000 employees and operations in 30 countries.
Our promises to you
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working (where you can work two days a week from home)
- 25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.
- Duvet morning on your birthday
- Gifted time off over Christmas
- Life insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line
- Flexible benefits platform where you are in complete control of what you receive. It could be anything from dental to gym membership, wellbeing initiatives, training, discount deals or simply a contribution to everyday bills and subscriptions (think Netflix, Amazon, Spotify etc!)
- Regular team socials and early finish Fridays
- An abundance of personal development opportunities, through our Grayling Advantage Academy (with courses ranging from writing, resilience, creativity and more)
- New business and employee referral bonuses.
- Cycle to work scheme
We believe diversity is strength. Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees’ unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organization that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will give fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status.
We're a Disability Confident Committed employer and will be very happy to provide any reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process. For any advice or assistance please contact [email protected]
Job Type: Full-time
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Company events
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Referral programme
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: In person
