Job Title: Consumer Director
Location: London [hybrid, 3 days per week in office]
Salary: £90-105k + competitive benefits package
We're looking for a Consumer Director to join an agency that’s on a real winning streak: multiple award nominations, exciting new business wins and interesting, integrated work.
About the Agency:
- An integrated PR and communications agency. They sit as the PR offering (and a separate agency) of a wider integrated group that offer services across advertising, media buying, digital, etc which means that their campaigns are truly integrated across numerous earned media channels, influencer marketing and social.
- Multi sector offering: the agency has teams across Consumer, Corporate, Social Purpose, Digital/Influencer, Creative and Strategy. Many of the accounts are cross sector/discipline.
- Clients are all blue chip, household name brands across lifestyle, entertainment, food and drink, FMCG and retail, with brands similar to Subway, B & Q, Krispy Kreme, Metro Bank
- Size wise, the agency is around 50 with a close knit, collaborative culture and a competitive benefits package which includes health insurance, life assurance, medical insurance, income protection,. corporate gym rates and more.
The Role:
This role will work across a household name client in the entertainment space (approx 60% of your time). It’s a significant win for the agency and the remit is global in addition to activating in the UK. As a result, global experience is essential for this role.
As a large part of the work is amplifying brand partnerships, including those within motorsports – sponsorship activation (particularly in sport) would be desirable.
The remaining portfolio is UK focused, across a mix of brands in retail, FMCG, food & drink; so someone with UK and Global experience is ideal.
We’re looking for someone who has experience of working in an integrated, cross agency environment, where account teams can be made up of a mix of experts across PR, planning, creative, digital and more.
Key Responsibilities/Skills:
- Experienced in working with big brand names - able to talk the language of clients, whether they be brand managers, comms leads and social leads
- Demonstrable campaign experience in a cross-agency environment delivering ambitious campaign activations, to a high level of quality and creativity
- Able to quickly build trusted relationships with senior clients through insight and solutions that cut through and simplify client issues. You will understand the way they work and be able to unlock opportunities to grow revenue through up or cross selling services that align to clients’ strategies
- Successful in autonomously leading and winning new business and building organic income from clients
- Invested in team development, both as a line manager and a leader of a peak-performing team
- Solid understanding of the earned media landscape - from strategic media relations, news generation, as well as the social and influencer landscape and know how to exploit these channels for your clients (an understanding of global nuances / toolkit approaches etc would be desirable)
- Financial management – Ensuring correct financial management of client budgets and that your team delivers against the agency’s own profitability targets.
If you’re interested in finding out more and applying please get in touch. E: charlotte@bradshawsearch.com
