Responsibilities

• To create, manage and execute PR activities for a wide range of clients to raise awareness, gain coverage and influence audiences.
• Develop, maintain, and grow media relations and develop PR plans to gain media coverage and newsworthy stories online.
• Take a more senior and mature approach internally and take more responsibility for contacting clients directly.
• Take the lead in managing small accounts to become comfortable planning PR activity and time management for clients.
• Take responsibility for daily media monitoring for reactive news opportunities.
• Be comfortable undertaking basic PR tasks like writing press releases, outreaching to media and drafting articles with minimum edits.
• Have an increased understanding of earned media’s influence on AI search and assisting the SEO team with tasks to improve AI visibility.
• Confidently communicate internally with team members and the wider SF teams.
• Be conscious of client campaign time throughout the month, carefully managing your own time to ensure all clients are serviced as expected.
• Work alongside the SEO and content teams to integrate all activity online, to help improve organic visibility.

Requirements

• Strong experience in owning and delivering external communications strategies for brands across both B2B and B2C sectors.
• Excellent writing skills and strong experience writing longer-form copy (1,000 words +).
• Great organisational and time-management skills.
• Strong relationships with regional and national media, managing and influencing them to build awareness of the brands they currently work with.
• Creative thinking and an ability to create unique stories and compelling campaign ideas that really stand out and attract coverage.
• Be full of ideas about how even the most seemingly boring of companies can get mainstream media coverage!
• Confident speaking and presentation skills to effectively communicate PR strategies to clients in both in-person and virtual meetings.
• To create, manage and execute PR activities for a wide range of clients to raise awareness, gain coverage and influence audiences.
• Develop, maintain, and grow media relations and develop PR plans to gain media coverage and newsworthy stories online.
• Take a more senior and mature approach internally and take more responsibility for contacting clients directly.

Preferred

• Degree-level qualification in a relevant subject is preferred.
• 1-2 years in-house / agency PR or sales experience preferred.
• Remote Work: Hybrid 3 days in the office, 2 days at home.

Benefits

• BUPA private healthcare.
• Generous company pension scheme.
• Monthly team lunches at a local restaurant.
• Regular company-wide social events such as go-karting, cocktail making, Henley Regatta, bowling, Reading Oktoberfest and more!
• Opportunity to attend the latest industry events around the world.
• Career development, training and mentoring by the best in the search industry.
• Birthday off in addition to a generous allocation!
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay.