Public Relations Account Executive

New York, USA (Hybrid)

$60K/yr – $73K/yrMid Level2+ years expFull time

Posted 3 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive media relations and client communications for a beverage-focused PR team, owning list-building, pitching, and stakeholder updates.

  • Must-have: 2–4 years in beverage/alcohol with strong journalist relationships.
  • Standout: Ability to build media lists with minimal oversight and proactively pitch top-tier outlets.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Builds media lists with minimal oversight
  • Strategic pitch writing and targeting
  • Relationships with press contacts developed to a point where regular contact should result in hits for clients
  • Feature story pitching
  • Client management
  • Professional, client-ready, and timely communications -- internally and externally
  • Effectively communicates progress against program deliverables
  • Other duties as assigned

Requirements

  • 2-4 years of beverage alcohol industry experience; preferably in sales or marketing.
  • Knowledge of the wine industry
  • Has strong relationships with industry contacts and proactively networks to increase connections
  • Can build strong media lists with little need for review from supervisors
  • Can proactively conduct outreach to potential clients and promote agency
  • Strong written/verbal communication, including the ability to successfully pitch to top tier journalists
  • Can provide effective customer service including: leading client meetings, completing deliverables on time, managing expectations, and driving strategy
  • Events - can build strong trade lists with little need for review from supervisors and is able to communicate key benefits of the event to invitees
  • Desire to continuously refine skills and/or learn new ones
  • Proficient in Google Workspace and Microsoft office tools (Excel, PPT, Word)

    Benefits

    • Clients: Our client list is incomparable, across a range of countries, regions, and categories.
    • Opportunities for Advancement: We are growing within all of our categories every year, affording every employee potential for promotion and career advancement.
    • Fun!: Happy hours, events, product tastings both in the office and outside.
    • Diversity: We strongly believe the diversity of our staff – made up at all levels of people from all backgrounds, from 12 countries, speaking 8 languages – is our strength, not only because of the vibrant intellectual and cultural working environment but because it reflects the diversity of the marketplace in which we make our appeal and the diversity of our clients.
    • Work-life balance and generous PTO: We believe employees who are happier outside of work are happier at work, and vice versa, so we have created a culture that prioritizes work-life balance. We have a flexible PTO system and we take off the week between Christmas and New Year’s.
    • Expertise: We are the largest fine wine and spirits-focused integrated communications agency in the U.S.
    • Learning Programs: The collective wine and spirits knowledge of our staff is unparalleled. You will have the opportunity to learn from others, both formally and informally, and through our in-house educational programs share your knowledge.
    • Prestige: Our reputation in the industry, among both media and trade, is second to none, and an email address from our domain is afforded certain respect and a second look.
    • Pay & Benefits: We offer competitive salaries within our category and full benefits - health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401K, and a generous PTO policy.
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    Colangelo & Partners

    Integrated Communications for Premium Brands in Food, Wine, Spirits & More.Ask industry insiders where to turn for the best food & beverage marketing services, and Colangelo & Partners is sure to enter the conversation. Over the last 9+ years, we have steadily grown our client base from smaller, entrepreneurial brands to include regional and national institutions, ranging from the trade commissions of South Africa and Chile to global brands such as Chianti Classico and Slow Wine.We believe integrated communications is the key to propelling a brand’s story across the modern media landscape: From press to trade to consumer, from print to web and social, from New York to Capetown to Bordeaux. With an international clientele and worldly employee culture, Colangelo & Partners provides an ideal fit for premium, artisan brands seeking to build their businesses in the US and beyond.

    Founded in 2006
    New York, New York, USA
    86 employees (16 in marketing)

    Traffic Signals

    Monthly Visitors
    1.5K
    Traffic Source Mix
    Search
    16.6%
    Direct
    65.5%
    Referral
    5%
    Social
    11.7%
    Paid
    1.1%

    Headcount Trend

    Current headcount: ~86

    Marketing Team

    Marketing Team Size
    15 (17% of company)
    Median Tenure
    3.3 years
    Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
    1

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