PR Senior Account Director – Brand at Grayling

Location: London (Chancery Lane)

Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working (3 days in, 2 from home)

About the role

Our growing Brand team has an exciting opportunity for a creative, commercial and consumer focused Senior Account Director to join the team. You will ideally have big brand experience across global hub coordination, integrated campaigns and sponsorship campaigns. You will also provide operational support to senior director by managing a portfolio of clients, managing account teams and contributing to organic and new business development initiatives.

You’ll will be working across a broad spectrum of big brand clients including the likes of Visa, PokerStars, brand sponsorships with FIFA, the Olympics and Paralympics and F1, Nestle, Pico and more. Given the nature of these accounts, you could well get the opportunity to travel to some of the most glamorous destinations and events in the world!

The day to day

Provides strategic counsel and advice to clients, developing and delivering innovative, insightful and integrated campaigns

Finger on the culture pulse and haring of rising trends with the wider team, leading, empowering and supporting them in the delivery of their roles

Develops new business and leads the process with prospective and existing clients, monitoring and developing opportunities to secure commercial growth for the division and the wider business

Protects revenue and builds long-term success by building strong relationships at the highest levels in client organisations and within Grayling

Develops long term client satisfaction by managing and implementing client service programmes

Creates budgets and manages them profitably, ensuring a balance between client service and profitability and providing rationale to the client demonstrating added value

Assists with business planning for the division through the analysis and evaluation of opportunities, risks and threats, resulting in a commercially astute plan

Supports the senior directors in key decision making and calculated risk taking to the benefit of the division and the wider business.

Defines KPIs and measurement metrics, using them to increase client satisfaction and improve divisional performance

Leads, motivates and develops account teams and individuals using progressive people management techniques and company processes, ensuring the optimum combination of skills and experience to achieve excellent results for clients

Connects with colleagues from across the Grayling network, leveraging opportunities to work together to develop global clients for commercial benefit and to enhance professional development and learning

Develops and maintains an active network of business contacts for the commercial benefit of the company

Continually develops own professional competencies and industry knowledge to ensure skills and experience remain ahead of the curve sharing this knowledge with others to enhance their development

What will give you the edge

Excellent strategic understanding of both traditional and digital public relations

Global brand experience

Integrated campaigns and multi-channel delivery

Digitally savvy

Ability to convert new business opportunities to revenue

Highly commercially astute and decisive

Curious – a desire to learn, improve, apply new knowledge and develop self

Excellent grasp of clients’ marketplaces, audiences and routes to market

Incisive, creative and strategic problem solver

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Confident networker

Organised with ability to juggle multiple and changing priorities

Supportive, inspiring and motivational leader

Personal drive and passion for the industry

Self-aware and able to adapt personal style and approach to clients and team

Our promises to you

Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working (where you can work two days a week from home)

25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.

Duvet morning on your birthday

Gifted time off over Christmas

Flexible benefits platform where you are in complete control of what you receive. It could be anything from dental to gym membership, wellbeing initiatives, training, discount deals or simply a contribution to everyday bills and subscriptions (think Netflix, Amazon, Spotify etc!)

Enhanced family-friendly policies

Work from anywhere for up to a period of two weeks per year.

Free breakfasts & weekly drinks in the office

Regular team socials and early finish Fridays.

An abundance of personal development opportunities, through our Grayling Advantage Academy (with courses ranging from writing, resilience, creativity and more)

External mentoring via Creative Access for anyone from an under-represented background

New business and employee referral bonuses.

Cycle to work scheme

Health & wellbeing programmes, including discounted gym membership

Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line

Life insurance

Get to know us

Grayling is the UK’s best-connected communications agency. With nine offices across the UK and 70 offices around the world, we create advantage for our clients through insight-led campaigns that deliver tangible results.

We’re in the top 5 of Newsweek’s 100 UK Most Loved Workplaces due to our open and supportive environment and were ‘Highly Commended’ in the large consultancy of the year category in the 2022 PR Week awards. We’re a sociable bunch and life at Grayling will offer you a whole host of benefits including 4pm Friday finishes, hybrid working, regular training workshops and regular socials – not to mention the opportunity to work across award winning global campaigns!

We are proudly part of Accordience. Accordience is an international public relations, public affairs, financial and corporate communications group – made up of Grayling, Citigate Dewe Rogerson (CDR), Red and Cirkle. Together, we have c.1,000 employees and operations in 30 countries.

We believe diversity is strength. Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees’ unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organization that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and will give fair consideration to all applicants regardless of age, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, family or parental status, neurodiversity and disability status.

We are a Disability Confident Committed employer and will be very happy to provide any reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process. For any advice or assistance please contact [email protected]

Don’t meet every job requirement? That’s okay! Our company is dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role, but your experience doesn’t perfectly fit every qualification, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this role or others.