PR Account Manager - #1673212

Central Employment are working with an established B2B & B2C integrated agency based in the North East, as they look to expand and recruit a client facing PR Account Manager.

Up to £36,000 DOE + benefits

Newcastle based, hybrid x 2 days from home

Reporting into the Account Director, you’ll be working in a highly supportive team, handling campaigns for some of the North East's leading brands, you can expect to work on a range of activities that span media relations, content creation, social media, influencer outreach, events, brand development and marketing communications.

Main responsibilities:

• Ensuring the effective day-to-day progress of client work in accordance with the campaign plan, objectives and budgets


• Excellent functional knowledge of integrated studio work and processes: ideally you will also have experience of working on large-scale integrated/PR campaigns


• An ability to communicate with clients and team (written and verbal) to a high professional standard


• Great attention to detail in the scoping, pricing and sign-off procedures


• Assisting on new work pitches and proposal writing if required


• Ensuring regular client contact


• Be self-starting and able to make appropriate day-to-day decisions on your client work

Experience required:

• Experience of planning and delivering integrated marketing & PR campaigns that align with client goals


• A background from within an integrated marketing agency, 2-3 yrs


• A good understanding of PR/Communications


• A creative writer


• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to influence across all levels


• Excellent project management capabilities


• Able to think ahead to see any issues arising for clients or self, so that these can be avoided/handled effectively


• Confidence in personal decision-making


• Creative thinker and solution-finder


• Confident contributor to internal and external meetings


• Happiest when the team is succeeding