Consumer PR Associate Director/Director – 12-month fixed term maternity cover contract
Team: Brand Communications Team
Location: London (Chancery Lane)
Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working (3 days in, 2 days flex.)
About Grayling UK
Our people are in equal parts exceptional professionals and wonderful human beings.
We’ve created a culture that champions personal growth and development, empowering everyone to be creative, innovative and enjoy their work. Your growth is our priority because when you thrive, so do we.
We’re serious about our work but never about ourselves, so if you’re looking for your next move and are passionate about consumer PR, you’ve come to the right place!
About the role
Our Brand Communications team has an exciting opportunity for a creative, driven and commercially focused Director. You will ideally have big brand experience including, integrated and sponsorship campaigns, influencer and social, newsjacking, and potentially global hub coordination. As well as working with a broad spectrum of big brand clients, you will also contribute to organic and new business development initiatives, manage and develop junior team members and oversee scopes of work, budgets, and resourcing.
The day to day
- Provide strategic counsel and advice to clients, developing and delivering innovative, insightful and integrated campaigns
- Have your finger on the culture pulse and share trends with the wider team, leading, empowering and supporting them in the delivery of their roles
- Develop new business and lead the whole process end-to-end, alongside monitoring and proactively developing opportunities to secure commercial growth for the division through organic and new opportunities
- Accountability for pipeline and forecasting
- Building strong senior client relationships which will in-turn enhance revenue for the team
- Develop long term client satisfaction by managing and implementing client service programmes
- Create and manage budgets, ensuring a balance between client service and profitability
- Define KPIs and measurement metrics, using them to increase client satisfaction and improve divisional performance
- Lead, motivate and develop account teams using progressive people management techniques ensuring the optimum combination of skills and experience to achieve excellent results for clients
- Connect with colleagues from across the Grayling network, leveraging opportunities to work together to develop global clients for commercial benefit and to enhance professional development and learning
- Responsible for supporting with team and agency profile through marketing efforts including award submissions, profile opportunities and wider marketing / events activity
- Management of team capacity planning and mapping resource
- Develop and maintain an active network of business contacts for building future new business pipelines
What will give you the edge
- Immediate availability would be highly advantageous for this role
- Agency experience with an excellent strategic understanding of both traditional and digital public relations
- An excellent understanding of media and influencer relations strategies
- Integrated campaigns and multi-channel delivery
- Ability to convert new business opportunities to revenue
- Highly commercially astute and decisive
- Excellent grasp of clients’ marketplaces, audiences and routes to market
- Incisive, creative and strategic problem solver
- Confident networker
- Supportive, inspiring and motivational leader
- Personal drive and passion for the industry
- Self-aware and able to adapt personal style and approach to clients and team
Our promises to you
- Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working, a work from anywhere policy, flexi time and 4pm Friday finishes
- 25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days
- Additional day of leave on your birthday & gifted time off over Christmas
- A monthly cash allowance to use on the benefits most important to you - you'll have the freedom to choose how you enjoy it!
- Enhanced family-friendly policies
- Free subscription to Calm app
- Office perks, including free breakfasts & fruit
- An abundance of personal development opportunities, through our internal training programmes
- New business and employee referral bonuses
- Interest-free season ticket loan & Railcard reimbursement
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line
- Life assurance
Get to know us
Grayling is one of the UK’s most connected communications agencies, working across Public Affairs, Planning & Infrastructure, Consumer and Corporate. With nine UK offices and more than 20 worldwide, we help organisations navigate complexity, shape conversations and make a meaningful impact through smart thinking, cultural insight and creative ideas.
We’re excited to keep raising the bar for impactful communications around the world and are proud to share that we have been named in PRovoke Media’s 100 Best Public Relations Agencies in the World.
Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees’ unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organisation that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will consider all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status. If you need any adjustments during the application process, we’re here to help - just let us know.
