Account Manager Social & PR

Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, UK (On-site)

Salary Not AvailableMid LevelFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own client relationships and campaigns in a fast-moving agency setting, turning audience insight into bold PR and social work while keeping multiple workstreams on track and optimized with AI-enabled planning.

  • Audience-first strategy: translate client business and audience insights into creative PR and social campaigns.
  • Campaign execution: manage day-to-day relationships, briefs, timelines, and multi-stream work to keep clients informed and confident.
  • Innovation and ROI: integrate AI tools into planning and delivery to improve effectiveness and demonstrate ROI.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Building a strong understanding of our clients' businesses and audiences
  • Managing day-to-day client relationships
  • Delivering excellent, creatively ambitious work for our clients
  • Helping maintain a financially healthy client relationship
  • Integrating AI tools into how we plan, create and deliver work
  • Being a part of a strong agency culture
  • Building a strong understanding of our clients' businesses and audiences
  • Taking the time to learn what each client does, who their audience is and what they're trying to achieve
  • Bringing audience insight and sector awareness into your thinking and your work
  • Asking smart questions so briefs are well understood before work begins

Requirements

  • Solid agency-side experience in PR, social media and influencer marketing
  • Genuine curiosity about client businesses and audiences
  • Creative ambition; a real appetite for braver, sharper, more distinctive work
  • A progress-over-process mindset; comfortable making decisions and keeping work moving
  • Confident, hands-on experience using AI tools as part of a working PR, social or content workflow
  • Excellent communication and writing skills
  • Creative thinker, able to write varied, compelling and engaging content
  • Ideally experience across both B2B and B2C clients
  • Confidence and credibility when dealing with clients, media, press and influencers
  • Organised and efficient, capable of handling multiple projects at once

Preferred

  • Hands-on AI content creation experience (copy, image, video, audio) a strong bonus
  • Media relations experience beneficial
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Cogent consists of 12 best-in-class partner companies in the fluid pumping and water processing/treatment business. Our people make the difference. Our shared values define us as a team and brings our vision to life. Cogent companies are committed to providing compelling, pertinent and logical solutions while serving the local Industrial, Municipal, Commercial Building Trades, Oil & Gas markets.Automatic Engineering, BRI, Central States Group, Edelmann, Fluid Equipment, iME Solutions, Industrial Measurement & Control, Lee Mathews, Vanco, Vandevanter Engineering, Velocity Pump Rental and Water Technology Group make up our best-in-class partner companies.

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