Responsibilities

• Cultivate and maintain strong senior client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor
• Partner with Cirkle’s central creative and strategy hub to shape bold, culturally relevant campaigns that deliver against client objectives
• Oversee campaign evaluation and reporting, ensuring results demonstrate clear impact and value
• Lead earned-first campaign development with a focus on generating standout consumer coverage and cultural relevance
• Drive proactive media relations programmes across national, consumer, lifestyle and interiors media
• Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, editors, broadcasters, influencers and content creators
• Identify reactive and real-time opportunities that keep clients relevant within culture and conversation
• Identify opportunities to drive organic client growth and additional project work
• Lead the development of proposals and pitches, acting as a confident strategic and creative lead
• Lead budget creation and forecasting across relevant accounts

Requirements

• Strong experience working across consumer lifestyle, household, retail, interiors or FMCG brands
• Proven expertise in consumer media relations and publicity, with strong national, lifestyle and consumer press contacts
• Experience developing creative, earned-first campaigns that deliver measurable impact and cultural relevance
• Understanding of integrated communications across earned, influencer, social and digital channels
• Knowledge of digital PR, SEO and GEO principles would be highly advantageous
• Excellent strategic thinking and client consultancy skills
• Strong organisation and project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple stakeholders, priorities and deadlines
• Highly creative with a strong instinct for newsworthy storytelling and media sell-in
• Confident working in a fast-paced agency environment and able to adapt quickly to changing priorities
• Experience managing and developing teams

Benefits

• Bonus scheme
• Monthly employee recognition awards
• Comprehensive wellbeing programme, including health insurance and up to 8 free counselling sessions per year
• Fully funded railcards
• Regular funded socials
• 27 days paid holiday, plus Birthday day off, plus ‘Joy Day’ – an initiative launched by the Wellbeing team in 2022, to encourage the team to take a day off to do something which brings them joy
• Internal and external mentoring and buddy schemes
• An electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Social purpose led paid time off for volunteering, voting, giving blood and every team member has one ‘allyship’ day per year, where they are encouraged to take a day to demonstrate allyship by supporting the interests of marginalised groups