PR Senior Account Manager: Consumer (Part time) in Glasgow

A lead relationship holder for your assigned clients, this role is a job share - 3 days per week (Tuesday, Thursday & Friday OR Wed/Thurs/Fri). You’ll be accountable for the effective and profitable delivery of projects and retainers for these clients - consumer / brands. You are an experienced, hands-on full-service PR professional who has a passion for FMCG / brands.

TEAM:

• Effectively take responsibility (along with job share) for a raft of clients.
• Take an active role in driving the team and agency forward.
• Be a guide and mentor to your team / account execs where necessary.
• Keep all relevant people informed of client or internal activities.
• Communicate information within the team with authority and clarity.
• Take ownership of their personal and professional growth.

CAMPAIGNS & CLIENTS:

• Take ownership of the strategic development of campaigns, with the support of your account director.
• Ensure that creative solutions are found to client problems.
• Inspire and enable creativity within the wider team.
• Contribute creatively in all campaign planning, and leverage creative connections where relevant.
• Proactively demonstrate a passion for building your cultural network and understanding.
• Be a confident and inspiring presenter, able to deliver high-quality presentations internally and externally.
• Create high-quality written and visual documents.
• Encourage exceptional standards for the work coming out of your team.
• Have a solid understanding of the wider marketing mix, and demonstrate a passion to expand this knowledge.
• Demonstrate an understanding of your key audiences and a passion for growing and nurturing this knowledge.
• Convert this knowledge into solid insights your clients can leverage strategically to build successful communications campaigns.
• Instil and nurture a culture in the team where solid consumer understanding and insights are at the heart of all work.
• Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of the Scottish and UK media landscape, and take responsibility for growing your awareness of latest trends.
• Leverage this to build media strategy and tactics for your campaigns.
• Demonstrate an extensive knowledge of the influencer landscape, and take responsibility for growing your awareness of latest trends.
• Leverage this to build solid influencer strategy and tactics for your campaigns.
• Have a solid contact book of creators, with a passion for growing this and leading by example within the team.
• Demonstrate leadership on the accounts you are responsible for. Be the clients’ key problem solver, strategic support and creative consultant.
• Ensure that your team are managing the account to a high standard.
• Contribute effectively to the development of KPIs when planning campaigns.
• Build strong measurement frameworks, and deliver KPI’s to a high standard.
• Encourage a culture of rigorous analysis and reflection within your team.
• Build strong and effective relationships with clients rooted in trust and mutual respect.
• Understand how your clients' businesses work.
• Understand your clients’ needs and internal pressures and respond accordingly.

We’re looking for a dyed in the wool PR professional who has demonstrable consumer experience (including drinks). You’ll be happy to work out of the Glasgow office up to 3 days / week. You will be happy to job share with a professional of an equal standing. Ideally you’ll be an existing PR Account Manager or Senior Account Manager but the main concern is that you can hit the ground running, therefore it is likely that you will hail from an agency background.

Salary to £40,000 great benefits and culture. This salary on a pro rata basis is to £24,000.

FURTHER IMPORTANT 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. If you are not currently living in Scotland, please explain/outline your plans and timelines for relocation to Scotland. We are a Scottish based recruiter who generally do not represent “remote” opportunities - thus you will be either living in Scotland or have solid plans to relocate. 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.