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

Drive PR and influencer relations work for client accounts, managing relationships, outreach, and campaign execution.

  • Own end-to-end influencer outreach and media relations for assigned accounts.
  • Must-have: 3+ years in media relations and influencer outreach.
  • Standout: Cross-functional collaboration across client, agency, and partner teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • 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

BarkleyOKRP is one of the largest independent ad agencies in the U.S., matching scale with soul to help build brands like Burger King, Corona Premier, Metro by T-Mobile, Planet Fitness, and Smoothie King. Fully integrated across strategy, creative, and media, BarkleyOKRP is a five-time Ad Age A-List honoree and Certified B Corp—bringing Big Indie spirit to advertising by using integration and egoless creativity as their unfair advantage. Find out more at barkleyokrp.com.

Founded in 1964
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
917 employees (354 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
12.4K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
37.2%
Direct
51.4%
Referral
6.4%
Social
3.4%
Paid
1.4%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~917

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
205 (22% of company)
Median Career Experience
9 years
Median Tenure
3.2 years
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

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