Senior PR Account Manager

We are looking for a talented PR professional; someone striving to excel in their career and to be part of an agile, forward-thinking team.

If you would like to join an award winning team that delivers great results, then we’d love to hear from you. MTM is a market-leading integrated agency, voted Drum Top 10 in the country, located on the water at Ocean Village in Southampton and partner to an enviable list of international clients.

We are looking for a talented PR professional; someone striving to excel in their career and to be part of an agile, forward-thinking team.

Our agency vision is to be outstanding, to deliver service excellence and make a real difference to our clients.

If this sounds like the role for you, then read on.

The Opportunity

This is an important role for a talented comms professional, looking to progress their career at an agency where they can make a positive difference and be empowered to drive client campaigns.

The opportunity requires a strategic thinker with strong writing skills, someone who is social media savvy and able to capitalise on the media relationships they already have. Preferably with an agency background with 4-5 years experience and a strong knowledge of the role PR plays as part of integrated marketing campaigns. Your contribution will be valued, we will support you and give you every opportunity to excel in your career.

Job responsibilities

  • Collaborating with the wider team to create engaging and compelling PR strategies.

  • To assist in planning and executing PR strategies across multiple channels.

  • Assist in the planning and delivery of social media campaigns and content.

  • Writing and editing content for all aspects of PR campaigns.

  • Campaign management, delivery, monitoring and budgets.

  • You will work closely with other teams to deliver on shared client KPIs.

  • Contribute to business development, including responding to tenders, drafting new business proposals and presentations.

The MTM Agency

Our team helps our client partners find and capitalise on their unique opportunities. Market-leading brands trust us to create and implement informed strategies, go-to-market campaigns and engaging experiences that amplify their message and resonate with their audience. We make sure our clients' message gets noticed and they are heard by the right people at the right time. We have just been nominated in The Drum Awards 2023 for the category B2B: Agency Team of the Year. In an era of rapid market evolution, The MTM Agency has distinguished itself by transforming B2B and B2C challenges into unique marketing campaigns.

The agency operates distinct teams across design, digital strategy and performance, development, PR and social media ,film and animation. You will be working across teams to deliver integrated and creative PR campaigns for our client partners, working with leaders within their respective fields.

Essential skills

  • A creative ideas approach to meeting PR briefs

  • Strong writing experience for all aspects of client content requirements

  • Significant knowledge of how social channels work as an integral part of PR campaigns

  • Strategic thinking/forward planning

  • Proficient in putting together and reporting on campaigns for multiple projects/clients.

  • Experience in selling stories to the media

  • To be adaptable, flexible and resilient to change

  • Pro-active with experience of working under your own initiative

  • Excellent attention to detail, thorough and accurate

  • Excellent communication skills, both verbally and in writing

  • Ability to work to manage budgets and meet deadlines

  • A confident and enthusiastic personality with a forward thinking and can-do attitude

  • Willingness to suggest new ideas and recognise the value they add

  • Being highly organised, with the ability to multitask

Benefits

As a Senior PR Account Manager with The MTM Agency, you will develop and deliver effective, targeted and innovative strategies to help us achieve our clients goals and to become a valuable member of the PR and content team.

You will be working in a fast-moving exciting environment with a great team who will help motivate you and provide endless opportunities for advancement. Our open-plan office with free parking is based on the waterside at Ocean Village in Southampton.

We are a caring considerate employer offering a good working environment and opportunities for training and professional advancement.

Our benefits include:

  • Apple MacBook or PC depending on your role/preference

  • Training budget/opportunities to allow you to develop

  • Attendance to relevant seminars and industry gatherings

  • The flexibility to collaborate in the office, combined with home working on fridays

  • Fun and supporting environment in our waterside offices at Ocean Village

  • Regular 1-to-1 support, including weekly meetings and annual reviews

  • No boundaries collaboration across agency services

  • Regular, free lunches and dinners to bring us together and celebrate successes

  • Company get togethers at least twice a year, all expenses paid

  • Exceptional remuneration, above average industry rates

  • 25 – 35 days holiday depending on length of employment

  • Plus your birthday as an additional free holiday day

  • Contributory pension scheme - 3%

  • Cycle to work scheme

  • Employee travel season ticket loans

  • Free eye tests

Our investment in you

You're serious about producing the very best, so we make sure you're equipped to do it. We have an excellent agency reputation and are trusted by some of the largest and most respected organisations in the world. We expect you to be at the top of your game and represent us to the best of your ability.

We have a growing team with very low staff turnover. Testament perhaps to our investment in and care for our team, it means that our team grows together. You'll work alongside some amazingly talented colleagues who will help you progress and you will enjoy sharing your experience to help others. We also provide an annual budget to help you up-skill.

We care, we're an ethically-minded agency and operate in a way that not only helps our business, but helps others do good; whether that's other businesses, charities or organisations. We hope you think in a similar way.

Your next step

If this is you and you like what you have read, we would like to hear from you, email your CV with a covering letter to [email protected]

Experience:

  • Public Relations: 4 years + (agency experience preferred)

Application deadline: 27th November 2023

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent