Account Coordinator

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableEntry Level1+ years expFull time

Posted 21 hrs ago

Job Summary

Lead and manage public relations efforts for multiple travel clients, crafting media pitches, building media lists, tracking coverage, and supporting reports and market insights across domestic and international contexts.

  • Own media relations and pitching across 4-6 accounts
  • Develop and execute coverage strategies and trend-based story identification
  • Collaborate on reports, press clips, and client updates

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Working alongside our talented PR teams supporting on 4-6 client accounts at a given time
  • You'll be identifying trending stories, developing engaging media pitches, building targeted media lists to help our clients reach new audiences and captivate current ones
  • You'll have the opportunity to work with a variety of international and domestic travel clients, and work closely with our team to bring ideas to life
  • Ongoing proactive and reactive media pitching to earn stories about client news and brand initiatives
  • Researching key media contacts to pitch
  • Contribute to all reports, including weekly client updates, meeting agendas / recaps, monthly reporting, etc
  • Clipping client press/influencer hits daily and regularly updating press trackers
  • Gathering intel on relevant trends, story identification and industry insights
  • Media event assistance, as needed
  • Other misc requirements as required by team structure and client needs

Requirements

  • Minimum of an undergraduate degree (Bachelor of Science or Bachelor of Arts) in communications, journalism, or related field
  • 1+ years PR/job-related experience in public relations, communications, marketing, journalism or related fields, with direct travel and lifestyle client background preferred
  • Strong detail and organizational skills
  • Ability to manage multiple projects/tasks at any given time to ensure continued progress across agency work
  • Clear, concise communicator, internally, with clients and outside partners
  • Excellent writing skills, both technical and creative
  • Strong news writing and reporting proficiency
  • Demonstrable media pitching skills
  • Solid understanding of social media and how to utilize it
  • Have and inspire a sense of urgency among other agency channels whenever necessary

Preferred

  • Muck Rack and other PR programs a bonus

Benefits

  • MMGY Global provides a comprehensive PTO + benefits package that includes a hybrid telework policy.
  • MMGY Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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MMGY Global is the world's leading integrated marketing company specializing in the travel, tourism and hospitality industry representing multiple agency brands with one goal: to inspire people to go places. Our communications practice is composed of multiple best-in-class brands including Travel Intelligence, TCI Research, Grifco, Hills Balfour, Lieb, MMGY, the company's flagship integrated marketing agency, Myriad, NJF, NextFactor, Origin and Wagstaff. Together, we represent more than 600 travel and tourism marketing experts across the globe.

Founded in 1981
Overland Park, Kansas, USA
446 employees (140 in marketing)
49% recommend to a friend
62% CEO approval

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Account Coordinator

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