1 Permanent position Opportunity in Greater Manchester

GUNG HO Communications is looking to recruit a dynamic account manager to join its team, based in its London (Shoreditch) or Birmingham (Jewellery Quarter) office.

Successful candidates will be highly motivated and creative with a solid understanding of the media and influencer landscape across lifestyle, fitness, sportswear and outdoors markets with the ability to manage small and large scale campaigns and provide expert and strategic client counsel.

Lifestyle / fitness / sportswear / outdoors PR experience, either in-house or at agency level, operating in similar brand environments.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Experience managing multiple accounts, including client press office campaigns, projects and events
• Excellent client relationships, ability to provide strategic client counsel and experience of delivering an exemplary service to clients
• Experience working on key performance indicators (KPI) driven accounts, achieving and over delivering against and setting client objectives and KPIs
• Knowledge of how to implement measurement metrics, analyse results and communicate this to clients
• Highly capable of producing quality press releases / media alerts / press facing information / quotes for features as well as top class proposal, pitches and presentations writing with independent proofing ability
• Management of proposals, pitches and presentations.
• Excellent publicity skills and a strong understanding of what ‘makes a story’ and how best to pitch it
• Strong network of contacts and pre-established working relationships with fashion, streetwear, commercial, sports, lifestyle / style editors, stylists, writers, from all relevant and leading media titles. European and Global media contacts also helpful
• Must have solid influencer, talent and opinion leader relationships and ability to work with them on both an organic and paid basis
• Manage project / seasonal / yearly plans for clients in response to their briefs and objectives
• Identifying, recruiting & managing influencer/creatives/talent for content creation
• Excellent team management skills and understanding of how to manage direct reports (account executives) - providing daily support and ensure they are consistently developing / delivering against their own personal KPIs
• Solid knowledge of finance and budget management.
• Oversee meeting co-ordination, lead client meetings, conference calls and updates
• Social media savvy and be able to prove digital experience. Ability to work closely with social media teams to deliver 360 communication results
• Ability to adapt to the ever-changing media landscape

Also must be/have:

• Ability to bring a wealth of unique life experiences and culture to relevant client briefs to help our brands connect with their target audiences
• Proactive and solution driven
• Adopt and embrace agency processes and values
• Excellent written and verbal skills
• Excellent organisational and forward planning skills
• Effective time management
• Ability to be agile and reactive
• Methodical and efficient approach to work, with common sense and initiative
• Comfortable, willing and proactive to work outside of their specialist areas when necessary
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite and Googledocs
• Willing to embrace and drive change

We at Gung Ho welcome and encourage applicants from all racial and socio-economic backgrounds and strive for a culturally balanced work force that can offer unique perspectives to help connect our brands to their individual consumers.

Salary to be discussed based on experience.

Please make sure that you state in your application that you found this role via Creative Access.