Responsibilities

• Lead major client accounts and play a central role in the continued growth of our progressive, fast-growing agency.
• Lead integrated corporate communications programmes for clients across multiple sectors, providing counsel to leadership teams, driving high-impact media engagement and delivering commercially successful client relationships.
• Help shape campaigns and communications programmes that build reputation, influence audiences and deliver measurable business impact.
• Work closely with teams across strategy, creative, digital and analytics to shape campaigns and communications programmes.

Requirements

• Act as the senior strategic advisor for client accounts, building trusted, long-term relationships with senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Lead the development and delivery of corporate communications programmes, including reputation management, executive profiling, corporate positioning, announcements and issues management.
• Drive high-quality media relations programmes across national, international, business and trade media.
• Provide strategic counsel and communications guidance to clients on complex business and reputational issues.
• Oversee account performance and ensure exceptional standards across all client work — always proactive, commercially focused and strategically impactful.
• Lead and mentor teams of PR professionals, helping develop talent and maintain a high-performance culture.
• Work collaboratively with specialists across creative, strategy, digital and analytics to deliver integrated communications campaigns.
• Play a role in business development, including new business pitches, organic growth opportunities and senior networking.
• Understand and manage the commercial realities of agency life, including profitability, forecasting, resourcing and scope management.
• 6+ years’ agency experience in corporate PR and communications.
• Proven experience leading corporate communications accounts across multiple sectors.
• Strong media contacts and demonstrable success delivering impactful media relations campaigns.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders and C-suite executives.
• Excellent presentation and client communication skills.
• Experience leading integrated communications strategies and reputation management programmes.
• Proven success managing and developing teams.
• Experience contributing to business development and leading pitch processes.
• A deep understanding of the corporate communications and PR landscape.

Preferred

• Independent mindset and initiative in a fast-moving environment.
• Creative & strategic thinking with a solutions-focused mindset.
• Experience contributing to business development and leading pitch processes.

Benefits

• Pensions: a 5% employer contribution.
• Holiday: unlimited holiday (including all UK public holidays) — plus guaranteed days off for birthdays and moving house.
• Flexible working
• Regular salary reviews: aligned to a transparent salary framework.
• Socials: regular team socials chosen by the team.
• Team retreats: dedicated time together away from the office.
• Bonus: transparent bonus structure linked to personal and company performance.
• Supporting good causes: we contribute part of our outperformance to charitable causes selected by the team.
• Wellness: dedicated wellbeing time within working hours every week.
• Monthly benefits budget: £50 per month to spend on whatever matters most to you.
• Private Healthcare: Vitality.