Our client is a leading PR agency in FMCG and Leisure industries. They are looking for a Senior Account Director with a minimum of five years PR agency experience to joining their team of 20+, working on an enviable client.

The ideal candidate will have:

- Excellent press contacts and relationships
- Good understanding of UK media -consumer, trade, online, broadcast
- High level of written and verbal communications
- Efficient time management
- Ability to write, monitor and adhere to budgets
- Strong negotiation and pitch skills
- Strategic and creative thinking in commercial market
- First-class delegation skills and team management
- Professional, enthusiastic attitude towards developing themselves and the agency

The role will involve:

- Full understanding of client business and broader agency issues
- Quality control over existing PR programmes and development of campaigns
- Development of new strategies and initiatives on behalf of clients
- Overseeing and monitoring level of work produced by junior team members
- Directing, training, developing and appraising team members
- Maintaining and/or increasing profitability on all clients
- Handling issues and crisis management on behalf of agency and clients
- Development of new business opportunities and pitch proposals
- Reporting to and taking direction from senior management

If you have the relevant experience and are an enthusiastic, team player looking for an opportunity to work within an environment that supports growth and rewards hard work, please send me your CV.