Associate Director – Corporate Communications

Responsibilities

• Be a senior lead and provide value-added expertise on key clients, ensuring excellent and profitable service and delivery of results; provide strategic counsel to help retain and grow the clients
• Ensure growth in client revenues, reviewing account profitability, taking action as required, and driving plans for optimising revenues
• Identify and secure upsell/cross sell opportunities with existing clients, plus client and services cascade opportunities across the network
• Run executive media relations programmes, including providing media training for senior/c-suite clients
• Ensure excellent client communication and instil accountability for defining KPIs and service agreements
• Promote an integrated communications and storytelling mindset to deliver a cohesive service offering to clients
• Contribute to the new business programme and marketing activity; work with the marketing team to promote TEAM LEWIS as a creative leader
• Build relationships with senior prospect decision makers and key intermediaries and influencers
• Take a lead role on credentials and pitches for prospects, developing the strategic insight, messaging and creative concepts
• Help build, retain and develop a high-caliber and motivated team – inspire and nurture a first-class culture in which people can thrive and grow professionally and personally

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of the industry, emerging trends and technologies, using this to inform strategy, direction and investment
• Deep understanding of integrated communications; agency experience integrating PR with digital marketing, content and broader marketing activities
• Expertise in b2b; experience in the tech sector would be helpful
• Won and led international clients
• Successful commercial management
• Proven track record of exceeding goals and a bottom-line orientation; evidence of consistently making good decisions through a combination of analysis, experience and judgment
• Knowledge of finance, operational/information systems, HR
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Integrity, humility, self-drive/initiative – and a sense of humour!