Senior Account Manager

Location: melbourne
Salary: Base + 10.5% super
Job Type: permanent
Contact: Lucy Garrido
Our client is a leading PR, marketing and creative agency, servicing an impressive line-up of clients across food, beverages, tourism and lifestyle.
 
Reporting into the PR strategist, join a tight-knit vibrant team of 14+ employees, working in a hybrid working environment that respects employee’s work life balance and prides themselves on celebrating the wins and empowering their team. With a supportive leadership team, the environment is collaborative, hard-working and fun, with an ideally located office in Cremorne.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage and implement client relations and projects across PR and content marketing campaigns.
  • Client services: Account lead driving client communication and project management, lead WIPs, pitching, reporting, budget management, proactive idea generation, troubleshooting, crisis comms. 
  • PR: Strategy, media lists, media pitching, partnerships, gifting, events and activations, influencer relations, seeding, stakeholder management and engagement 
  • Media network: Maintain strong relations with media and influencer contacts
  • Content/copy: Write content for social, EDMs, collateral, blogs, invitations, seeding cards, marketing and communications.
  • Social and digital: Not a core part of the role but may assist in media scheduling, community management, website uploads, EDMs, campaign execution etc.
  • Leadership: Set tasks and support more junior team members, mentor and share knowledge and experience
 
The ideal candidate:
  • 3+ years PR agency experience
  • Strong technical PR skillset: media pitching, lists, media release writing, follow ups, processes, great media contacts
  • Strong copywriting skills: social posts through to blog, media relations and marketing collateral
  • Some experience mentoring/leading team members
  • Excellent client services skillset
  • Knowledge in food, beverages and/or tourism ideal but not essential
  • Solutions focussed, can do attitude, team player
  • Excellent time management, good systems and processes to support this
  • Can jump into the role and get on the tools immediately: media lists, knows what a PR campaign looks like, gets it
  • Some experience in social/digital ideally but not essential
 
How to apply
Should this opportunity be of interest to you click on the APPLY button or contact Lucy Garrido on (03) 8613 3564 for a confidential discussion.