Account Executive – Financial PR – World’s No1 PR Agency – London
- Employer
- Median
- Location
- London
- Salary
- VERY COMPETITIVE
- Closing date
- 16 Nov 2018
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- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
- Discipline
- Press / Media Relations, External Affairs / Relations, Corporate Communications, International, B2B, Investor Relations, Financial PR
- Seniority
- Senior Executive, Executive
- Sector
- Financial Services
Job Details
Account Executive – Financial PR – World’s No1 PR Agency – London
My client is the world’s leading global communications agency, helping business and organisations evolve, promote, and protect their brands and reputations. They are independent, allowing for the freedom to deliver original thinking and invest in their clients.
They advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.
My client is now seeking an Account Executive to join their specialist capital market and financial services communications consultancy who advise listed and private companies on investor communications and provide support on transactions including cross-border and domestic M&A and restructuring as well as IPOs and other capital raisings. They work with UK and international companies, of all sizes, across all sectors of the market. They also specialise in the Financial Services sector advising asset managers, banks, insurers and professional services firms, helping them build and protect their reputations.
The Role:
My client is looking for a highly ambitious, proactive and motivated individual with solid PR experience to join the Financial Services team. In particular, the role requires a candidate with excellent media handling skills, including the ability to provide informed counsel to clients when developing stories or handling complex issues and liaising with journalists directly.
Responsibilities include:
- Working across a range of major financial services clients
- Media relations, including story and message development, creating and driving outreach plans, securing national media coverage/briefings with senior editors and correspondents, briefing spokespeople and ongoing development of contact network
- Serving as the daily client contact (Both C-Suite and comms) and as client lead when appropriate, as well as providing proactive counsel on new approaches or ideas that will help meet clients’ broader objectives
- Ghostwriting articles on behalf of clients
- Overseeing quality and operational performance of accounts, ensuring work quality and deadline adherence
- Producing content, writing/editing press releases and articles
- Providing support on new business pitches
Key requirements:
- A minimum 6-12 months experience in either financial or corporate PR
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Ideally at least some experience of liaising with journalists across national City and personal finance desks, as well as with investment and broader financial trade media
- Ability to service multiple clients
- Ability to balance ‘quick hits’ and longer-term strategy
- Team player
My client offers a most competitive salary up to £28,000 plus the benefits and career progression you would only associate with working for the world’s largest and most prestigious PR agency.
This is an outstanding opportunity for a talented and ambitious Account Executive to join the very best agency around. Please forward your CV without delay and in complete confidence to [email protected]
Company
Two Time Winner – Recruiter Awards for Excellence
Median Recruitment is one of the UK’s leading specialist PR and communications recruitment consultancies. Established in 1998, over the years Median has helped literally thousands of Public Relations professionals take their next step on the career ladder.
Our success means we have received an unprecedented five consecutive nominations at the prestigious Recruiter Awards for Excellence in the category of “Best Media Recruiter” with wins in 2006 and 2007.
At present we are recruiting on behalf of many of the top 100 UK and international PR agencies, in addition to the in-house PR departments of several world renowned blue-chip companies.
To assist our candidates, we have dedicated recruiters at all levels of PR, from graduate entry level through to account management, right up to board level. In addition, we have a team dedicated to freelance and contract positions. The team consists of highly intelligent consultants, some of whom are from the PR industry itself.
Through referrals, incentive schemes, network events and with a brand that is now entrenched in the PR market, Median attracts a wide audience of PR candidates. As a result we have been able to seriously invest in advertising and our banners, buttons and job advertisements are by far the most recognised on all the main leading PR job boards, websites and publications.
Located in the heart of London’s West End, Median Recruitment truly understands the specific requirements of PR firms and in-house departments; that’s why so many of them trust us, and us alone, to search and select their candidates.
Please don’t hesitate to contact one of our consultants on 020 7292 0455 for further information or visit our website at www.medianrecruit.co.uk
- Website
- http://www.medianrecruit.co.uk/
- Telephone
- 020 7292 0455
- Location
-
3 Kingly Street
London
W1B 5PD
GB
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