Account Director / Senior Account Director, Global Publicity

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We’re a communications agency specialising in PR for the entertainment industry. We surround our clients’ content with small teams of experts who collaborate to be productive, responsive and accommodating. We build exciting campaigns around content of all kinds targeting audiences that will love them. We’ve been around for 18 years so we have strong roots in our industry, but we approach all our work with a fresh, innovative and forward-thinking approach that enables creativity to thrive.

Our values are built around Togetherness, Diversity, Inclusion and Passion . We subscribe to the concept of All In . All In is our commitment to building a truly inclusive culture full of diverse people, thought and perspective. We oppose all prejudice and discrimination and are active in our pursuits of creating a culture that is representative of the different communities and intersections within Organic, Havas and the wider industry, community and society.

The role

You’ll report to Associate Director, Global Publicity

You will have a minimum of 8 years’ experience in international publicity for Account Director / 10 years’ experience in international publicity for Senior Account Director.

The Account Director / Senior Account Director makes everything run like clockwork. This role works independently and part of the team to create exciting opportunities for our clients. You’ll continue to build on your exceptional relationships with press, international sales agents, international film festivals, distributors, streamers, broadcasters and their local partners and talent, as well as developing new ones. You’ll devise proposals and strategies and take the lead on the international roll-out of a project, adapting to changing pressures and circumstances with a steady and calm attitude. You’ll actively promote our skill base and capability. You’ll take the lead in demonstrating best practice behaviours and coaching and mentoring team members to success. You’ll reach out to your peers to create compelling new business approaches. You’ll provide counsel to your clients and support our vision to grow our business through being a long-term, trusted partner.

Your goal

To ensure our clients are serviced to the highest standard and to be instrumental in developing team members who report to you and work with you on project teams. To be putting forward ideas and initiatives to improve the workings of the team, the culture of the agency and the growth of the business.

Your generalism

Every Account Director / Senior Account Director needs to bring a core set of skills to the table:

1. Be organised – you’ll be handling a high volume of workload with a significant level of accountability, so you need to be an excellent juggler and able to identify priorities in a high-pressured environment.

2. Be proactive – develop and implement processes that improve the day-to-day running of the team and/or a particular project – being proactive and creative in your approach

3. Be strategic – you will have a clear vision of how a campaign will play out – targeted, not scattergun, impactful not run-of-the-mill, and creative not formulaic

4. Be an expert – have confidence in your skills and experience and take a consultancy approach with clients. Be proactive in offering your advice and guidance.

5. Bring the energy – and be prepared to keep a cool head when working under pressure

6. Be a team player – we work in teams almost all of the time so you need to be dependable

7. Be a role model – culture starts with the senior staff and you are there to inspire and develop

8. Be a leader – lead by example and approach all campaigns with a positive, can-do attitude

9. Be a confident negotiator – excellent influencing and interpersonal skills.

10. Be flexible –Willing and able to work on projects outside of your comfort zone and be agile and open.

11. Be a coach, a support and a mentor your team –tohelp their development and throughout a campaign.

12. Strong business acumen – solution orientated, commercially focussed and deadline driven.

13. Be a delegator – ability to delegate to your team and drive the day to day efficiency

14. Be a good director – give clear and assured direction – empower your teams to be confident in their decision making whilst providing the support and guidance they need.

15. Attention to detail – ensure your team are delivering outstanding work, all of the time

16. Be a networker – make time for clients, attend events/functions to connect with industry colleagues.

Your specialism

As a senior member of the Global Publicity Team , you’ll need to be an expert in these areas:

1. Devising and implementing creative publicity strategies to support our client’s objectives for international publicity campaigns across Film (Theatrical and Streaming) and Television content (Linear and Streaming) – from the production stages, through festival launches, to release/launch/TX.

2. International Film Festival campaigns – leading launches, campaigns, and strategies for clients, working on behalf of film productions, world sales companies and filmmakers to optimize film launches.

3. Identifying new business opportunities that could bring new clients and revenue to the agency

4. Maintaining and developing exceptional relationships with international media & trade press, clients (film festivals, production companies/sales agents/studios) and their local release partners

5. Flexibility to work outside of standard working hours at international film and television festivals, junkets, screenings, set visits, and premieres, including support for other departments if required

6. Writing formal PR proposals and delivering presentationsto clients

7. Leadership in meetings with clients, producers and filmmakers

8. Work with Head of Department to prepare SOWs for client, ensuring this is clearly communicated with teams on each projectand can be confidently executed.

9. Be fully competent with internal finance processes ; including overseeing of campaign budgets, processing POs and invoices efficiently, working on Pulse (full training to be given)

10. Overseeing the management of campaigns – giving clear direction to the team and ensuring all elements of a SOW are met and to the highest standard

11. Confident in handling high profile talent at all stages of a campaign with strong experience in liaising with agents and personal publicists

12. Overseeing all aspects of a press junket, press trip, premiere/festival launch, photocall or event, including multi-talent schedules and logistics; anticipating complications and trouble-shooting during the process

13. Overseeing the collation, reporting and analysis of coverage and campaign status and effectiveness

14. Line management of multiple AM/SAMs to include regular check ins, bi-annual appraisals, goal setting and holiday approvals.

15. Be involved in the selection and interview process of potential candidates for new hires within the team, providing formal offers to successful candidates and liaising with the People Team re contracts and equipment.

16. Contribute to ideas/brainstorms/pitches outside of projects you are directly working on, in order to offer valuable, experienced insight to the wider agency

17. Feed into agency Goal setting with proactive initiatives and positive ideas around the key pillars of People, Work, Clients, Reputation and Growth.

18. Share your knowledge, learnings and experience with the broader team and contribute to the training and development of your colleagues.

19. Be passionate – show a keen interest and knowledge of entertainment content, particularly film and television.

20. Attend weekly resource planning meetings – with senior Global team to ensure the staffing of projects across the team is coordinated and collaborative.

21. Attend bi-weekly Senior Management meetings and monthly New Business Meetings – to ensure communications across all departments of business is coordinated and collaborative.

22. Proactively promoting the work your project teams have delivered both internally via company meetings and weekly round-ups and externally through the Organic social channels.

23. Understand the importance of corporate communications and reputation building for the agency – identify and pursue opportunities for team members to participate in panels, trade and consumer press features, thought leadership pieces, podcasts, talks, webinars and etc in order to promote the agency and the team.

24. Actively seek out opportunities for Organic to be a force for good – through pro bono work, certain important projects or filmmakers’ work or through social issue driven initiatives.

25. Be fully competent with internal finance processes ; including overseeing of campaign budgets, processing POs and invoices efficiently, working on Pulse (full training to be given)

26. Be involved in the selection and interview process of potential candidates for new hires within the team, providing formal offers to successful candidates, liaising with recruitment consultants if required and liaising with the People Team re contracts and equipment.

27. SAD level – Attend bi-weekly Senior Management meetings and monthly New Business Meetings – to ensure communications across all departments of business is coordinated and collaborative.

Job descriptions are reviewed annually as part of performance reviews to ensure they remain relevant – Jan 25

Date posted: 12 Feb

Application closing date: 24 Feb, 6pm

Interviews: Initial interviews to be held w/c 24 Feb. Second interviews TBC

Location: HVL, 3 St Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG

Hybrid working. We operate a hybrid working model, with at least x3 days in the office. Further details will be explained by the hiring manager.

Salary: £45-62.5kdepending on experience

Please note that if applying for this role you must already have the Right to Work in the UK.