Job description
Job title: PR Senior Account Executive
Location: Cardiff
Job description
Golley Slater is looking for a PR Senior Account Executive to join our thriving integrated marketing agency.
As a PR Senior Account Executive, you will play an integral role in assisting the implementation of PR, social and content campaigns for our clients. In the role you will learn how to develop and execute integrated PR campaigns, develop creative assets for multiple channels whilst building close client relationships. This role is perfect for a PR Account Executive looking for the next step in their career within an integrated agency.
What you will be doing:
- Assistant with the planning and delivery PR campaigns to time and to budget, under the guidance of an Account Manager/Director.
- Developing and actively nurturing relationships with individual journalists and influencers.
- Planning and implementing media relations programmes at a national and local level.
- Using a range of PR practices to deliver client work (feature writing, news releases, social media activity, case studies, blog writing, copywriting and editing etc.)
- Building and maintaining client confidence in campaign delivery through building strong client relationships and clear communication.
- Writing informatively and persuasively for diverse audiences and platforms e.g., media materials such as features and news releases, content scripts, social media activity.
The essential skills and experience you need to be successful in the role are:
- Experience working in a PR Account Executive role in an agency environment (1 year minimum)
- Good understanding of PR and media relations, including how national and regional media work, social media and influencer marketing and owned channels.
- Excellent writing and communication skills.
- Able to prioritise workload to tight deadlines
- Commercial understanding and confident with numbers
- Take pride in consistently producing high-quality work
- A willingness to learn and continuously develop themselves.
Some of our benefits include:
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holiday.
- Birthday Holiday Day.
- Enhanced maternity, adoption and paternity leave pay.
- Enhanced sick pay
- Compassionate leave policies, including paid pregnancy loss leave
- Employee assistance programme including access to free counselling sessions
- Life and service milestone awards
- Hybrid working and core hours (10 to 4)
- Life assurance (4 times annual salary)
- Option to buy extra holiday
- Pension scheme (5% employee, 3% employer)
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
At Golley Slater, we believe that curiosity creates the unexpected, and true curiosity cant be achieved without diversity. We need people with different perspectives, experiences, and cultures to develop unexpected ideas that challenge, excite and create lasting impact. Thats why were proud to be an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race including colour, ethnic or national origins and nationality, religion or belief or sexual orientation ("the protected characteristics"). So, whoever you are, whatever your background, we want to hear from you.
How we can support you
We know that some people may need more flexibility than others. We offer the opportunity for our teams to fit work around their needs and schedules with:
- A work where you feel most productive policy for those who find it easier to work remotely.
- Flexible working hours (with core hours of 10am-4pm).
- Enhanced parental leave, to give teams time with their new arrivals.
- Pregnancy loss leave.
- Enhanced sick leave.
- If you require any adjustments to make this role work for you or need assistance during our application process, please contact a member of our HR Team.
In return, well give you the chance to build on these skills and advance your career with support and collaboration among a team who like to have fun as well as work hard. If this sounds like you then please apply!