Account Executive, Financial Services PR

Our client is a fast paced financial services PR agency.  The team needs to hire an Account Executive with previous PR agency experience and an interest in  financial services.

There is a really interesting and mixed client list for the successful candidate to work on from day one. 

You will need to be:

• Social – creating strong teams that know how to work together

• Curious – curiosity leads to continuous questioning and learning

• Open – open minds lead to better ideas and relationships

• Responsible – aiming to be a force for good in the way we do business

• Entrepreneurial – everyone behaving as if it was their own business

Specific responsibilities

Account Planning and Management

• Responsibility for driving implementation of agreed client programmes/ work
• Project planning and development of critical paths and timetables for all client work
• Oversee preparations for account meetings and ensure account team, including Director, is fully prepared for these
• Produce/ review written materials, including briefing documents and client memorandum, ensuring they are delivered to an excellent standard
• Regular creative input to account work, including identifying and generating opportunities for promoting account objectives
• Contribute to strategic discussions about client accounts
• Lead and contribute strongly in meetings, with ideas and input across all activity
• Support Director and Account Director  in acting as Consultant to client, giving strong advice and input
• Assist Account Director in developing budgets for client programmes and have regard to these in implementing account programmes
• Manage junior members of account team
• Manage and delegate work in a timely fashion
• Assume Account Directors’ responsibilities in their absence/ unavailability

Media Relations

• Oversee and implement media relations’ activity, including timings, distribution lists, methods of distribution
• Develop media strategies for clients’ interests
• Monitor media for relevant client coverage and potential opportunities for clients across the team
• Circulate relevant sector intelligence to team
• Manage collation of all coverage, evaluation and presentation to client
• Oversee / produce client related materials, e.g. press releases, reports etc  and ensure they are delivered to an excellent standard
• Develop and maintain relationships with journalists, suppliers and key stakeholders
• Strong media handling skills, including supporting crisis communications work
• Identify media opportunities for further client work

Event Management

• Design, plan and manage client events, including press conferences, dinners, seminars, receptions etc
• Develop and implement PR plans to maximise value of client events

New Business

• Identify opportunities to expand and develop existing business with clients
• Writing proposals and presentations, including client projects and contract renewals
• Support development of new business proposals and attend new business pitches
• Provide regular input into company’s new business activity
• Contribute to marketing activity
• Contribute to developing case studies of client work for website, credentials presentations etc

Social media

• Be actively involved in building understanding of social media
• Provide creative input into how social media could be leveraged for client activity
• Build your professional social media presence

Working here is interesting and challenging and the rest of team take a real pride in delivering great results for their clients so you will need to do the same.  The team has a great culture and you will need to have a positive, can do attitude and a charismatic personality to work here.