Senior Public Relations Account Manager

Kansas City, MO (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Owns end-to-end media and influencer outreach for client programs.

  • Owns end-to-end media and influencer outreach for client programs.
  • Must-have: Minimum 3 years of related experience and media relations
  • Standout: Influencer identification, outreach, and content creation experience

Job Description

Owns end-to-end media and influencer outreach for client programs.

  • Builds and maintains productive client relationships, including serving as a day-to-day contact
  • Builds and maintains strong relationships within the agency, including with the creative, social, media, and client leadership teams
  • Identifies key media contacts and influencers relevant to accounts and client needs
  • Manages media and influencer relationships, accounts, and project activities
  • Executes influencer outreach and negotiations and builds earned media relationships
  • Communicates and delivers earned media and influencer campaigns built with strategic objectives and amplification for brand channels
  • Supports onsite execution of activations with influencers and media, including client, vendor, and partner relationships
  • Utilizes media and influencer monitoring and research tools; identifies appropriate measures to evaluate the success of a major project, campaign or event
  • Demonstrates a thorough understanding of, and follows, best practices and trends for PR and influencer industries
  • Responds professionally to client and colleague communications

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent industry experience required
  • Minimum of 3 or more years of related experience and/or training
  • Excellent communication and persuasion skills, both written and oral
  • Ability to work autonomously, lead projects, and work on a team collaboratively
  • Impeccable attention to detail and stellar organizational skills
  • Creative problem solver with strong critical thinking skills to manage the unknown and plan ahead
  • Media relations experience, including pitching national, regional, local, and trade news media and securing interviews and coverage for clients
  • Influencer relations experience, including influencer identification, outreach, relationship management, and content creation
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BarkleyOKRP is one of the largest full-service independent agencies in the U.S. As an alternative agency model, BarkleyOKRP is independent enough to make bold work that sticks with the modern consumer and big enough to build whole brands with our full spectrum of capabilities. The firm is also one of the largest Certified B Corporation agencies with industry recognition that includes four times on Ad Age’s A-List, as well as being named AdAge’s “Agency of the Year - Culture, Convergence;” AdWeek’s “Fastest Growing Agencies'' and “Agency of the Year” shortlist, The 4A’s Foundation “Independent Agency of the Year” for DEIB practices, and the ANA’s Multicultural Excellence award. Learn more at barkleyokrp.com.

Founded in 1964
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
384 employees (123 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
11.7K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.6%
Direct
51.2%
Referral
6.3%
Social
3.3%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~384

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
73 (19% of company)
Median Career Experience
12 years
Median Tenure
4.3 years