PR - Senior Account Manager

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We have an exciting opportunity for a PR Senior Account Manager to join the Edinburgh team of a brilliant UK Communications agency group. They are a truly friendly, supportive, and fast-paced team with massive ambitions - and thus we need a hungry, dynamic PR Senior Account Manager who is bright and creative, with strong corporate client experience. We would also consider applicants from a public affairs or political background.

In this role, you’ll work with and learn from this fantastic team, developing and implementing successful communication campaigns for an impressive mix of clients. The team are looking for someone with experience in delivering outstanding communication campaigns and that has a demonstrable range of skills to meet the clients’ needs.

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​The Job

No two days are the same, but to give you will get involved with:

• Developing and implementing dynamic communications campaigns on behalf of clients.
• Collating market and client research and producing reports
• Project managing the production of collateral and developing campaigns
• Writing copy and creating strategies to meet a wide range of challenges
• Liaising with teams across the business including our designers
• Contributing to exciting new business development opportunities
• Working with a supportive and collaborative team at a leading communications agency

​Person Spec:

Ideally, we’re looking for the following:

• Someone with an exceptional eye for detail and an appetite to get stuck into our strong portfolio of corporate clients.
• Previous experience of managing communication campaigns within the corporate sector.
• Solid experience managing multiple client projects, in-house or within an agency environment.
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Confidence with the media; identifying and pitching news and creative feature ideas to the press
• A good understanding of digital and social media
• Excellent people skills, able to apply these at networking events, client meetings and with the wider agency team
• Comfortable juggling competing priorities and retaining a cool head under pressure
• Enthusiastic, creative, hard-working and motivated mindset

​Salary is purely dependent on skills & experience to £38,000 + fantastic benefits including a defined career path, a training budget, pension, health and loads more.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Gilchrist Recruitment Partnership are a specialist recruitment agency and recruiting partner within the Marketing, Digital communications/PR, Creative & Design and Advertising industry for Scotland, both agency and client side.

When submitting your application, please outline your current salary, salary expectations and notice period. It is also essential that you are already legally permitted to work in the UK with the associated paperwork if you are not a UK citizen.

We cannot guarantee a response to each individual application, made necessary by the level of response we receive. We will contact only those candidates we wish to shortlist. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to ensuring that no applicant receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, age, disability, religion, belief, sexual orientation, marital status or race.

Unless clearly stated otherwise, the advertised position is a permanent contract.

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: Up to £38,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Reference ID: 2205/PRSAM/Ed