Account Director/Senior Account Manager - B2B travel PR

The role: Account Director/Senior Account Manager

We're looking for an accomplished, astute and dependable PR professional with an interest in businesses in the international travel industry to join our friendly and award-winning team. This is the perfect role for an existing Account Director who would like a change of scene, or a seasoned Senior Account Manager who is ready to take a step up. Either way you will have significant experience in successfully and independently managing multiple client accounts, as well as managing and developing junior team members.

Reporting directly to the MD, you will be responsible for developing and implementing strategic communication plans for global organisations, primarily within the B2B airport and travel retail industries. You will provide counsel on a range of corporate and brand communications issues and ambitions.

International travel to Cannes in October may be required, and there may also be opportunities to travel to other destinations such as Paris or Singapore.

If you are exceptionally organised, see yourself as a safe pair of hands and are looking to shape your future in PR with a boutique agency at an exciting time in its development, then this is for you.

Key responsibilities

• PR strategy - Contributing to the creation of strategic PR plans and programmes for clients
• Client management - Taking a lead on the day-to-day management of 3-7 global client accounts within travel, including devising frameworks for impactful client reporting and evaluation
• ndustry expertise - Delivering sound strategic counsel, demonstrating a good understanding of our clients' businesses and industries, and building trusted client relationships
• Writing - Drafting complex written material for clients such as media briefings, Q&As and thought leadership pieces, and supervising junior team members in the creation of press release and social media content
• Social media - Leading on B2B social media strategy and content creation for clients, as well as influencer activations when required (primarily LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube)
• Team management - Managing the day-to-day work and professional development of junior team members as well as leading by example as one of the most senior members of the team
• Crisis management - providing crisis communications support and consultancy

Experience and skills required

Personal specification - essential:

• 5+ years' PR consultancy experience (preferably UK-based)
• 1+ years' experience working at SAM level or above
• Experience managing multiple client accounts
• Experience taking campaigns from inception to execution
• Strong writing & communication skills Confident and experienced in managing and developing teams
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
• Enthusiasm to travel for events or client visits, which may involve working outside of traditional hours (such as weekends or bank holidays)
• Interest and belief in the global benefits of the travel industry

Personal specification - desirable:

• Experience in corporate communications, B2B or travel PR
• Working knowledge of and/or degree in foreign languages
• Experience of financial budget management

Salary

£45,000 - £60,000 depending on experience

Location

Our office on Eccleston Square, next to London Victoria station. Option to work from home Mondays and Fridays.

Core benefits package (fully accessible once probation successfully completed)

Personal development

• Personal annual training budget
• CIPR membership and training
• Monthly one-to-ones

Holiday

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year

Flexibility and wellbeing

• Working from home
• Gym membership
• Annual wellbeing allowance
• Funded eye tests
• Pension provision
• On-site facilities including meditation room and roof terrace with spectacular views over London

Socials and team culture

• October team trip to Cannes
• Regular team drinks/smoothies
• Christmas social at The Comedy Store

Bonus

• Christmas bonus

Future benefits

Templemere's team members can access the below enhanced benefits in addition to the core package after one year working in the company. They can choose one option from each section (so three in total).

Gold benefits

• An additional three days of annual leave
• Private health insurance
• Additional pension contributions

Silver benefits

• Priority Pass Prestige membership
• AirBnB gift card
• GAYE
• An additional two days of annual leave

Bronze benefits

• Giving back days - one day of paid leave once every six months to support a charitable cause of your choice
• Carbon Neutral Plus subscription
• Bills support
• An additional day of annual leave

Length of service rewards

• Travel grant - £2,000 towards a trip away after two years of service
• Sabbatical - Four-week paid sabbatical after three years of service

About us

Templemere PR provides world-class reputation management and communications consultancy to businesses working in the travel and transportation industries. From travel technology to travel retail, airports and airlines to rail, we are experts in what we call 'the business of travel'.

We help businesses communicate effectively with existing customers and attract the attention of potential new clients. We combine imaginative ideas with genuine understanding of what does and doesn't work in PR, and deliver results that can be measured in terms of their effect on our clients' businesses.

Whether the brief is to promote the opening of an airport lounge, increase awareness of a new travel app, manage the publicity of an international travel trade association, or build a deal-winning reputation for an airport food and beverage operator, our strategic and sophisticated approach to PR is always focussed on delivering real commercial value and linking investment in PR to boosting profitability.

We find the news stories within our clients' businesses and tell those stories to the right people, at the right time, in the right way, for maximum impact. Companies who choose to partner with us get sensible advice from people who know what they're talking about.

If you are looking for a great opportunity where you can provide crucial support to clients and feel valued as an essential member of the team, then this is for you! We are at an exciting time in our agency's development, and we hope that you will be a part of our future progress

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