Senior PR Manager

Manchester, UK (Hybrid)

Salary Not AvailableSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 1 day ago

Job Summary

Own and lead high level PR strategy for a group of retained clients, shaping culture driven campaigns, mentoring teams and driving commercial growth across budgets, renewals and upsells.

  • Lead strategic direction to C level stakeholders and performance reviews
  • Build and manage a high performing PR team with clear progression
  • Oversee outputs and budgets across accounts to ensure margin and success

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Build an imaginatively driven agency culture : To develop a team and culture that approaches ideation differently, creating campaigns that feel original, culturally relevant and genuinely enviable.
  • Foster proactive ownership : To empower individuals to take full responsibility for their clients, campaigns and workload, operating with autonomy while contributing to a fast-moving, supportive team environment. You should lead by example here.
  • Demonstrate senior-level expertise: To operate as the senior strategic lead across your accounts, bringing 5–6+ years of PR experience, confident decision-making and consistently high-quality delivery.
  • Drive commercial performance : To manage budgets effectively, identify growth opportunities, lead upsell conversations where appropriate and confidently own client renewals.
  • Develop high-performing teams : To actively manage and mentor team members, recognise individual strengths, support progression and provide clear, constructive feedback.
  • Lead senior client relationships : To build trusted partnerships at all levels, including confidently presenting performance and strategic direction to C-level stakeholders.
  • Act as lead strategic contact across a group of retained clients, and potentially senior escalation point on others
  • Lead campaign ideation, ensuring work is creatively ambitious, strategically sound and aligned to client objectives
  • Present campaign concepts and strategic plans to clients, securing buy-in and sign-off
  • Oversee all output across your accounts, acting as final internal sign-off for materials including press releases, onsite content and outreach strategy

Requirements

  • 5–6+ years of PR experience
  • senior-level expertise: operate as the senior strategic lead across accounts
  • confident decision-making and consistently high-quality delivery
  • lead a team of PR executives and senior execs (management, mentorship)
  • ability to manage budgets and identify growth opportunities
  • client renewal experience and upsell conversations
  • experience presenting to C-level stakeholders
  • autonomy and ownership of campaigns and workload

Benefits

  • A salary of £45k+ depending on experience
  • A generous holiday entitlement (25 days + bank holidays + all-agency Christmas shutdown)
  • Work from anywhere (within reason) for 15 days a year
  • Learn anything budget, roller blading, floristry, you name it…
  • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption policies
  • All the training you will need in an ever-changing industry
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Bottled Imagination

The Digital PR & content marketing agency selling creativity by the bottle.We’re Bottled Imagination, and we’re here to add a drop of something fresh to the PR industry. Whether you want a full frontal, end-to-end service, or just some ideas to kick off your thinking, we’re selling it all by the bottle.2023 UK Search Start-up Agency of the Year2024 PR Moment New Agency of the Year

Manchester, England, GBR
24 employees (18 in marketing)

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
17 (71% of company)
Marketing Roles Posted (Last 30 Days)
2

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
3.9K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$4K

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~24
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Senior PR Manager

Bottled Imagination · Manchester, UK · Hybrid