PR & Social Media Director (12 Month Maternity Cover)

Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableDirector/ExecutiveFull time

Posted 2 months ago

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Job Summary

Own the PR and social program by guiding a multi skilled team, owning senior client relationships, and shaping high impact strategies in a data driven, AI aware environment.

  • PR leadership and team management across integrated and standalone clients to drive strategic, commercially meaningful outcomes.
  • Senior client advisory and cross functional collaboration to win and grow opportunities with strong media and influencer relationships.
  • Own framing and selling bigger PR ideas, with a clear measurement framework and accountability across the team.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Ideally, we are looking for someone who can guide and manage our multi skilled PR & Social Media team, with an emphasis on supporting the development of PR strategies, driving team proactivity, and ensuring brilliant basics, whilst also personally running some key PR client relationships.
  • You will act as a trusted PR expert to our PR clients, sometimes working as part of an integrated team across the agency and at other times leading PR only clients with additional commercial support from Senior Management or Business Director leads.
  • Maintain the quality of our PR & Social Media output through innovation, learning, and a deep understanding of the earned media and social landscape including being well versed in the impact AI is having on PR.
  • Champion best practice across PR and Social, ensuring work is strategic, culturally relevant, and commercially impactful.
  • Help develop and sell in bigger and more ambitious PR ideas and plans.
  • Build and own senior level client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor with honesty, confidence, and pragmatism.
  • Lead key PR & Social relationships in close collaboration with Account Management on integrated accounts, ensuring best in class service, retention, and growth.
  • Work closely with the commercial and new business teams to pitch, win, and grow PR & Social Media opportunities.
  • Be comfortable in the detail while maintaining a clear view of the bigger picture.
  • Be across your own and the team's (as appropriate) utilisation and burn rates against client retainers and projects.
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SHIFT Active Media

SHIFT Active Media, Data Driven Marketing Experts For Cycling And The Great Outdoors 🚴🏼♀️ 🏔️ 🌲 Data | Consultancy | MarketingOur multi-skilled, multi-talented team blends decades of cycling expertise and international media relationships, with blue chip agency experience and knowhow. Our work is powered by unique research, unrivalled market intelligence and genuine passion for all things bikes and the great outdoors. It’s this combination that made us the agency partner of choice for Rapha, Zwift, fizik, YT, Brompton, Kask and many other fantastic cycling and outdoor brands.

Founded in 2010
Bath, England, GBR
36 employees (21 in marketing)

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
5.2K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$2
Traffic Source Mix
Search
54.5%
Direct
32.8%
Referral
6.3%
Social
5.6%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~36

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
18 (50% of company)