Total 31 pr media communications job vacancies in belfast northern ireland

Communications and Marketing Officer needed in Downpatrick, £16.25ph PAYE - Reference: OR2462

1. To contribute to the provision of a Communications and Marketing service across the Client to ensure the delivery against agreed corporate and service-specific Communications and Marketing objectives and targets, and continuously develop and deliver consistent and co-ordinated Communications and Marketing service improvements.
2. To support Managers and Officers across the Client, in relation to the development and implementation of effective Communications and Marketing strategies.
3. To maintain effective working relationships with other employees and directorates and lead on the management of a range of communication, marketing and engagement channels, including digital platforms, using the most appropriate and cost-effective channels and channel mixes to position the Client, its services and facilities positively to ensure that the Client reaches the wide variety of customers and stakeholders we serve.
4. To contribute to the development and implementation of emergency communications plans to provide accurate, timely and consistent information and advice to staff, elected members, service users, citizens, the general public, partner organisations and the media in a Major Incident or business disruption.
5. To contribute as required to the preparation of financial estimates and business plans for the Communications and Marketing Section and to assist with the management and control of the Communications and Marketing budget ensuring services are delivered within allocated budgets.
6. To participate in the preparation of business cases, tenders and quotations in line with financial and procurement regulations, policies and procedures and corporate timescales.
7. To undertake Communications and Marketing related project work as directed by the Head of Communications and Marketing using the principles of good project management and provide regular and ad-hoc Communications and Marketing reports for the Head of Communications and Marketing, Assistant Director, Chief Executive, Senior Management Team, Committees and Client as required.
8. To direct and signpost Managers and Officers to the appropriate source for issues outside the remit of this post. This may include carrying out duties for other posts within the Communications and Marketing Section.
9. To assist as required to the preparation of effective risk management and business continuity plans and procedures for the Communications and Marketing Section.
10. To keep under review new developments in all fields relevant to the postholders responsibilities and to make recommendations to Senior Officers as appropriate.

This is a Full time role on a temporary contract basis

If you are interested in the role please apply on our website with your CV, alternatively you can email your CV to katie@essentialemploy.co.uk quoting the reference number.

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WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW

This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $80,000 - $85,000 inclusive of superannuation

Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane.

ABOUT GROUPM:

GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE

The Performance Associate Manager plays a key role in the team, providing implementation & campaign management for key clients while also supporting the planning function. You are responsible for supervising elements of team workload to ensure client demands are met.

A guru in biddable operations, you drive effectiveness and efficiency gains across the department. With a drive and passion for all things digital, you’re stepping into a management role by developing key leadership skills to complement your technical prowess.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS

Collaborating closely with internal teams
Establishing strong relationships with relevant media, data, and technology partners
Foster deep trust and understanding with agency client teams
Contribute to great teamwork in your immediate team

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING

People – 20% of your time
Oversee workflow of junior team members, swiftly escalating issues as they arise
Hold constructive and meaningful performance evaluation meetings with reports each month, setting clear KPIs and monitoring achievement
Provide clear guidance and instruction when working with, teaching, or helping others

Product – 40% of your time
Take the lead in delivering end-to-end biddable campaigns, including QA compliance and use of best practice
Proactively identify and drive innovation and best practice opportunities within your teams.
Guide and enrich advanced biddable capabilities by applying your experience via both hands-on and coaching
Work with your manager to develop testing frameworks that advance our capabilities

Client – 20% of your time
Lead initiatives to improve both agency and client capabilities, working across vendors and partners to achieve success
Cultivate strong, trusted relationships with clients at a junior and intermediate level, as it relates to implementation planning & buying
Develop your skills of media planning principles, including agency practices and philosophies

Commercial – 20% of your time
Ensure all team financial and compliance processes are followed in a timely manner and with 100% accuracy
Maintain a strong perspective of in-scope services for your clients, and the process for completing work above and beyond this
Provide hands-on leadership to junior staff in dealing with commercial issues, such as account queries, reconciliations, and bookings

WHAT MAKES A GREAT PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATE MANAGER

Attention to detail: you display high attention to detail across all work and can spot potential issues ahead of time
Organisation: confidently able to optimise work and supports the wider team in this planning & prioritisation
Team & collaboration: viewed as a valued member of the team, actively supporting and contributing to the efforts of other team members
Communication: can manage conflict to a resolution, adapting communication style to both give and receive constructive feedback
Analytical: create new and improved approaches to managing complex information and arrive at logical conclusions
Flexibility: adapts to new ideas and initiatives, displays a positive attitude in the face of ambiguity and change
Proactivity/taking the initiative: work autonomously, focused on achieving results
Problem solving: able to define complex problems, can identify optimal and alternative solutions with minimal supervision

Marketplace Associate Manager - Job description
WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $80,000 - $85,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

About GroupM
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

Responsibilities
• When thinking about People this roles responsibility is to adhere to and promote
• Living and breathing the GroupM values everyday whilst possessing a proactive mentality and approach to workloads
• Possessing a strong commitment to creating a positive, motivating, and inspiring team culture with the ability to contribute POV's and follow leadership directives.
• Works collaboratively with client team across all disciplines throughout the campaign development process ensuring they deliver work in a timely manner.
• Communicates confidently and effectively on all matters with clear articulation holding both excellent written and spoken capabilities when communicating internally and externally.
• Conducting own personal brand within the GroupM Professional Etiquette guidelines.
• Delivering a gold standard implementation of media planning and buying
• Building an effective knowledge and use proprietary and industry tools & systems to deliver market leading campaign implementation.
• Demonstrating knowledge, understanding and application of the GroupM Process and the roles and responsibilities at each stage
• Obtaining necessary certifications for required platforms.
• Provides accurate administrative support to the broader Investment team
• Demonstrating a strong understanding of your client and their category whilst responding to all requests in a timely manner, consistently managing expectations
• Developing trusted relationships with media owners to build knowledge of product suite and formulate opinions on the media landscape.
• Developing strong internal partnership relations and builds knowledge of product offering
• Ensuring financial procedural adherence is met across all touchpoints including pro-formas, MBA's, bookings, and loadings with an aim for zero account queries.
• Follows GroupM SOX Compliance and auditing processes with 100% adherence.
• Ensures timesheets are completed regularly with 100% accuracy and attention to detail.

Planning Director - Job Description
WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $105,000 - $115,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

About GroupM
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

About the role
In your role as Planning Director, you are the story teller, the person that connects all the dots, defines the idea, and the systems architect. Working closely with our strategy, creative, account service, marketplace and digital teams, will engage with the business leadership team to deliver on your client’s objectives. We are now one of the largest agencies with an enviable client roster, which includes CBA, Bankwest, adidas, Bayer, Dell, Google, Mars, PlayStation, The Coca-Cola Company and Uber.

What will make you stand out
• You are considered a specialist when it comes to understanding how media works across paid, owned and earned channels.
• Really enjoys working with data – being able to pull actionable insights from a client’s data set translating this into planning lead implications/optimisations. Ability to build and optimise reach and use tools to do this.
• In-depth understanding of the latest research on media effectiveness and how media drives growth
• Experience in audience and signal planning understanding how to build audiences and translate them into segments we can buy and activate against
• Competency working across planning tools from audience planning, allocation and optimisation
• Ability to work with implementation teams to translate the strategy into actionable plans for brands
• Ensuring delivery of a digital solution which is relevant to the client’s business/brand by working with the Implementation teams to fine tune budget allocation, weights, phasing, site mix with creation of the media plan
• Builds key relationships with key client stake holders in marketing, planning and strategy
• Works with client teams to share thought leadership on media planning effectiveness either pro-actively or in key stakeholder meeting

More about You
• Has the ability to turn numbers into a story - numbers are like a second language and easily translated fast, accurately and effectively
• Is a highly skilled communicator who knows how to simplify the complicated media world and structure of an agency
• Is always excited to build connected systems that deliver against business solutions
• An awareness of what award-winning work looks like
• Is a trusted advisor who can quickly understand the client’s business needs and develop a solution
• Enjoys working within a fully integrated team

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $90,000 - $120,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The role of the Client Associate Director is to be a key point of contact for our clients and to support the development of strong communication recommendations across all channels, paid, owned and earned. Responsible for supporting a successful client relationship. Bringing together the right people, to deliver the highest quality of outputs for your client, end to end, ensuring deliverables are grounded in client priorities.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
• Manages day to day contact with Clients, building strong, trust-based relationships
• Full understanding and comprehension of the client brief and ability to discuss it internally with the broader client and craft teams.
• Deliver a well-informed POV in every meeting, providing innovative strategic insights by acting as an expert in your craft. Brings innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging insights from across the market.
• Confident in your knowledge of media planning principles (e.g. scheduling, flighting, recency, effective reach theories, seasonality, market prioritisation, roles of all communication channels) and strong ability to utilise agency and industry tools to enhance and support planned recommendation.
• Articulates and justifies the tactics against each channel clearly detailing how they bring the strategic approach to life.
• Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
• Leads / oversees implementation planning and trading processes ensuring quality and timely output across the segment, identifying buying strategies on a campaign-by-campaign basis.
• Engage with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you have an understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients.
• Help develop Client Development plans through to execution with key clients.
• Solid working relationship with internal & external stakeholders, and able to bring together diverse capabilities for the benefit of the client.
• Skilled understanding of Client contracts & commercials, and able to align to identify & support new solutions and revenue opportunities for clients.

Leadership:
• Ensure all new team members are onboarded correctly in line with the Enboarder workflow.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that SOX controls, SLAs and KPIs are adhered to.
• Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact to remaining team members.
• Motivate the team to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
• Develop and train team members to ensure they reach their potential.
• Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations and Annual Performance Reviews through Culture Amp.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve all team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT CLIENT ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
• Holds a deep practical knowledge of Account & Client Management.
• Requires a minimum of 7 years of experience.
• Relevant qualification in Sales or Marketing
• Experience leading Projects, preferably with a qualification in Project Management

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $90,000 - $120,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward..

ROLE OUTLINE
The Performance Associate Director spans the full spectrum of implementation, activation, and delivery. You provide leadership to activation staff, drawing on your expertise to coach, teach, and support them in delivering for our clients to a consistently high standard. You also collaborate with clients to produce successful implementation plans that drive real business change.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
People – 35% of your time
• Manage team workflow, delegating tasks effectively, making sure goals are set & met, and resolving issues with minimal guidance
• Ensure performance evaluations are completed to the required frequency and standard, coaching managers where required
• Lead the training and development of junior members of the team, including up-to-date certifications/accreditations across all relevant platforms
Product – 30% of your time
• Enrich ongoing implementation planning and buying practices to improve delivery, collaborating with practice leads where relevant
• Actively lean into GroupM craft initiatives at an AU, APAC and Global level to drive best practice in your team and to maximise knowledge sharing opportunities.
• Bring innovation and creativity to the table by leading the testing agenda for your team, collaborating with partners to harness their capability
• Supervise the reporting output across the team, ensuring it is jargon-free, insightful, and of the highest standard
Client – 20% of your time
• Own key relationships at the intermediate level, as it relates to implementation planning & buying
• Demonstrate strong media planning principles, working with clients to provide implementation plans that are grounded in strategic priorities
• Provide coaching and guidance to junior team members on their communication and relationship-building skills
Commercial – 15% of your time
• Address and resolve challenges and issues related to commercial tasks, liaising with stakeholders and coaching junior team members as required with minimal supervision
• Seek and implement improvements to ways of working that increase efficiency and effectiveness of commercial operations
• Support Director on investment decisions, audits, and forecasting

WHAT MAKES A GREAT PERFORMANCE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
• Attention to detail: monitoring the quality and accurate of your own work, and that of others
• Organisation: manages expectations across all stakeholders, sets clear priorities
• Team & collaboration: assumes extra responsibilities to facilitate the achievement of team goals
• Communication: effectively communicates business objectives, issues, and outcomes clearly, applies strategic thinking
• Analytical: recognises causes & consequences of actions and events that are not readily apparent
• Flexibility: recognises changing circumstances quickly and proactively implements successful action plans across team
• Proactivity/taking the initiative: consistently contributes to improve work methods, outcomes, and team performance
• Problem solving: identifies root problems and proactively implements solutions, acts to minimise risk across all implementation processes and procedures

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $82,000 - $92,500 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The role of the Client Manager is to be a key point of contact for our clients and to support the development of strong communication recommendations across all channels, paid, owned and earned. Responsible for supporting a successful client relationship. Bringing together the right people, to deliver the highest quality of outputs for your client, end to end, ensuring deliverables are grounded in client priorities.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
• Engage with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you have an understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients.
• Strong knowledge of media planning principles (e.g. scheduling, flighting, recency, effective reach theories, seasonality, market prioritisation, roles of all communication channels) and ability to utilise agency and industry tools to enhance and support planned recommendation.
• Leverage industry and agency suite of tools to aid planning, including the development of target audience, brand, growth priorities, insights, role of channel and channel priorities.
• Proactively manage campaign launch activities, responsible for client campaigns going live and which requires top-class attention to detail, confidence, and organisation to ensure that all internal and external teams provide what is needed to get the campaign live.
• Brings innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging insights from across the market.
• Help build and then maintain strong collateral pieces relevant to the group, agencies, and clients by liaising with product team members to understand proposition, product features and KPIs.
• Budget planning (compose budgets with third-party costs and considerations included) for Clients to approve in-line with planned sponsorship activity, contributing to company’s organic growth and bottom-line.
• Work with Client Services Director and Managing Director on business reporting, finance and top line account summaries (point of escalation)
• Key day to day contact with Clients,
• Actively work on insights from the Client Satisfaction Survey and help develop Client Development plans
• Solid working relationship with internal & external stakeholders
• Skilled understanding of Client contracts & commercials
• Foundational understanding of agency commercials
• Continue to identify & support with new revenue opportunities
• Oversight of compliance auditing deliverables, troubleshooting where necessary
• Support the day to day work with broader team

Leadership:
• Ensure all new team members are onboarded correctly in line with the Enboarder workflow.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that SOX controls, SLAs and KPIs are adhered to.
• Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact to remaining team members.
• Motivate the team to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
• Develop and train team members to ensure they reach their potential.
• Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations and Annual Performance Reviews through Culture Amp.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve all team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT CLIENT MANAGER
• Advanced practical knowledge of Account & Client Management
• Requires a minimum of 5 years of experience.
• Relevant qualification in Sales or Marketing
• Experience leading Projects or a qualification in Project Management

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $120,000-$140,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The role of the Marketplace team is to deliver the highest excellence in Implementation Planning and Buying, spanning both offline and online media types, powered by data, technology, and automation, ensuring client campaigns are executed and amplified in an effective, efficient, and future facing way. The scope of Marketplace incorporates traditional media (TV, Cinema, Out of Home, Radio, Print, Digital Video and Display) and the online evolution of traditional media (Addressable TV, Programmatic OOH, Music Streaming and Podcasting). The role of Director within the Marketplace team is to lead the development and presentation of effective, efficient, creative and future facing implementation plans and media schedules for clients, to deliver business growth.
WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
• Lead the construction and presentation of effective and future facing Implementation plans, that are grounded in strategic priorities and data-led optimisation recommendations.
• Exceptional knowledge of the media landscape, able to confidently articulate and train others on core media principles and the how each media touchpoint can fuel growth for clients.
• Overall responsibility of the media plan, ensuring quality and accuracy
• Identify and lead product innovation opportunities for your clients and with your teams.
• Prioritise and oversee non-biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define and deliver success.
• Collaborate closely with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you have a robust understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients, are able to clearly articulate their benefits of their inclusion, with a focus on identifying and converting growth opportunities that can help transform client Implementation plans.
• Prioritise and oversee initiatives to improve both agency and client capabilities, working across vendors and partners to achieve success. Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
• Responsible for client media audits, media negotiations and billings forecasting, working hand in hand with your key stakeholders to deliver to goals and client KPI’s.
• Ensure your team are delivering on time and with accuracy.
• Strong understanding of media planning principles, including agency practices and philosophies.
• Pivotal role in new business development and pitching when required.
• Responsible for the overall delivery of client investment, with flawless accuracy across all aspects
• Ensure client Investment deliverables are met consistently, across all touchpoints.
• Deliver a well-informed POV in every meeting, providing innovative strategic insights by acting as an expert in your craft.

Leadership:
• Ensure all new team members are onboarded correctly in line with the Enboarder workflow.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that SOX controls, SLAs and KPIs are adhered to.
• Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact to remaining team members.
• Motivate the team to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
• Develop and train team members to ensure they reach their potential.
• Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations and Annual Performance Reviews through Culture Amp.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve all team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT MARKETPLACE DIRECTOR
• Advanced knowledge and skills within Digital Investment with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the organization.
• Requires a minimum of 10 years of experience.
• Relevant qualification in Media or Marketing
• Experience leading Projects, preferably with a qualification in Project Management

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $90,000 - $120,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The role of the Marketplace team is to deliver the highest excellence in Implementation Planning and Buying, spanning both offline and online media types, powered by data, technology, and automation, ensuring client campaigns are executed and amplified in an effective, efficient, and future facing way. The scope of Marketplace incorporates traditional media (TV, Cinema, Out of Home, Radio, Print, Digital Video and Display) and the online evolution of traditional media (Addressable TV, Programmatic OOH, Music Streaming and Podcasting). The role of Associate Director within the Marketplace team is to help shape and manage the delivery of client media plans.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
• Able to construct and present effective and future facing Implementation plans, that are grounded in strategic priorities and data-led optimisation recommendations.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the media landscape, able to confidently articulate and train others on core media principles and the how each media touchpoint can fuel growth for clients.
• Ownership of the media plan (creating, developing, updating and reconciling), including the distribution to all key stakeholders.
• Identify and lead product innovation opportunities for your clients and with your teams.
• Lead non-biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define and deliver success.
• Collaborate closely with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you have a robust understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients, can clearly articulate their benefits of their inclusion, with a focus on identifying growth opportunities that can help transform client Implementation plans.
• Lead initiatives to improve both agency and client capabilities, working across vendors and partners to achieve success. Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
• A pivotal role for client media audits, media negotiations and billings forecasting, working hand in hand with your key stakeholders to deliver to goals and client KPI’s.
• Ensure your team are delivering on time and with accuracy.
• Well-established understanding of media planning principles, including agency practices and philosophies.
• Actively contribute to new business development and pitching when required.

Leadership:
• Ensure all new team members are onboarded correctly in line with the Enboarder workflow.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that SOX controls, SLAs and KPIs are adhered to.
• Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact to remaining team members.
• Motivate the team to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
• Develop and train team members to ensure they reach their potential.
• Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations and Annual Performance Reviews through Culture Amp.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve all team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT MARKETPLACE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
• Holds a deep practical knowledge of Digital Investment.
• Requires a minimum of 7 years of experience.
• Relevant qualification in Media or Marketing
• Experience leading Projects, preferably with a qualification in Project Management

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $120,000-$140,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The role of the Client Director is to be a key point of contact for our clients and to develop strong communication recommendations across all channels, paid, owned and earned. Responsible for driving & leading a successful client relationship and a results driven team. Bringing together the right people, to deliver the highest quality of outputs for your client, end to end, ensuring deliverables are grounded in client priorities.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
• Manages day to day contact with Clients, building strong, trust-based relationships
• Full understanding and comprehension of the client brief and ability to discuss it internally and interrogate with the broader client and craft teams.
• Work closely with the Strategic Planner on the creation of unique and insightful channel strategies that meet the client needs.
• Strong project management, able to lead quality control of work going to the client in a timely manner, across all business units to ensure our product is answering the business need. Always seeking to raise the benchmark.
• Leverage industry and agency suite of tools to aid planning, including the development of target audience, brand, growth priorities, insights, role of channel and channel priorities. Brings innovation and creativity to the table through insights.
• Confident in your knowledge of media planning principles (e.g. scheduling, flighting, recency, effective reach theories, seasonality, market prioritisation, roles of all communication channels)
• Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
• Engage with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you have an understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients.
• Help develop Client Development plans through to execution with key clients.
• Solid working relationship with internal & external stakeholders, and able to bring together diverse capabilities for the benefit of the client.
• Skilled understanding of Client contracts & commercials, and able to align to identify & support new solutions and revenue opportunities for clients.

Leadership:
• Ensure all new team members are onboarded correctly in line with the Enboarder workflow.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that SOX controls, SLAs and KPIs are adhered to.
• Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact to remaining team members.
• Motivate the team to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
• Develop and train team members to ensure they reach their potential.
• Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations and Annual Performance Reviews through Culture Amp.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve all team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT CLIENT DIRECTOR
• Advanced knowledge and skills within Account & Client Management with understanding of the impact of work on other areas of the organization.
• Requires a minimum of 10 years of experience.
• Relevant qualification in Sales or Marketing
• Experience leading Projects, preferably with a qualification in Project Management

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $82,000 - $92,500 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The Performance Manager delivers success across all facets of the business. Highly skilled in every aspect of biddable, you are accountable for managing a developing a portfolio of clients. Able to confidently lead a small team of people, you set the highest standard for operational excellence, and maintain a market-leading view of best practice biddable media.
Passionate about technology and digital media, you are the team expert on how to deliver best-in-class biddable activation and outcomes while nurturing a junior team of practitioners.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
People – 30% of your time
• Manage team workflow, delegating tasks effectively, making sure goals are set & met, and highlighting concerns with your Director
• Hold constructive and meaningful performance evaluation meetings with reports each month, setting clear KPIs and monitoring achievement
• Assist in the training and development of junior members of the team
Product – 30% of your time
• Ensure all output is of the highest standard, and conforms to GroupM's best practices across planning, implementation, optimisation, and reporting
• Oversee the end-to-end biddable process across your team, ensuring QA compliance and use of best practice
• Identify and lead product innovation opportunities for your clients and with your teams.
• Lead biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define and deliver success
Client – 20% of your time
• Support your director in the delivery of strong implementation plans that meet client objectives
• Offer expert perspectives and POVs on recent market trends or developments, ensuring they're shared with stakeholders
• Meet with vendors and partners to drive your client's agenda, creating opportunities for junior team members to get involved
Commercial – 20% of your time
• Ensure your team are delivering on time and accurate commercial tasks, including training & education
• Seek and implement improvements to ways of working that increase efficiency and effectiveness of commercial operations
• Support Director on investment decisions, audits, and forecasting

WHAT MAKES A GREAT PERFORMANCE MANAGER
• Attention to detail: monitoring the quality and accurate of your own work, and that of others
• Organisation: you track progress and completion of activities to accomplish objectives, working effectively under short deadlines
• Team & collaboration: lead your team to achieve common goals, initiating collaboration with others
• Communication: take the initiative to keep other people informed, and tailor messages to suit others’ needs
• Analytical: distinguish between critical and irrelevant information, can deal with complex challenges
• Flexibility: confident in handling changing circumstances and ambiguity, also guiding others
• Proactivity/taking the initiative: achieves ambitious but realistic goals, coaches others on how to focus their energy on achieving results
• Problem solving: autonomously solves complex problems with minimal supervision, and proactively follows up after implementing a solution

WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $82,000-$92,500 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemake, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
The role of the Marketplace team is to deliver the highest excellence in Implementation Planning and Buying, spanning both offline and online media types, powered by data, technology, and automation, ensuring client campaigns are executed and amplified in an effective, efficient, and future facing way. The scope of Marketplace incorporates traditional media (TV, Cinema, Out of Home, Radio, Print, Digital Video and Display) and the online evolution of traditional media (Addressable TV, Programmatic OOH, Music Streaming and Podcasting). The role of Manager within the Marketplace team is to oversee that approved client media plans are booked with the highest level of operational excellence.

WHAT YOU SHOULD SPEND YOUR TIME DOING
• Oversee the delivery of best-in-class campaigns, in line with all planned parameters, in an efficient, effective, compliant, and future facing way, in line with Marketplace best practice.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of the media landscape, able to articulate and train others on core media principles and the capabilities of each media touchpoint.
• Identify and lead product innovation opportunities for your clients and with your teams.
• Lead non-biddable projects across your client remit, working collaboratively with stakeholders to define and deliver success.
• Engage with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary solutions teams to ensure you have a robust understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients and can clearly articulate the benefits of their inclusion.
• Responsible for ensuring all financial and compliance processes are followed by you and your team, with 100% accuracy.
• Lead initiatives to improve both agency and client capabilities, working across vendors and partners to achieve success. Seek to find, communicate, and implement improvements in all aspects of the role. When required, a strict adherence to buying commitments that have client contract association.
• Support the planning team in the development of strong media plans that meet client objectives and KPIs.
• Support Associate Director and/or Director on investment decisions, audits, negotiations, and forecasting.
• Strengthen your skills of media planning principles, including agency practices and philosophies.
• Maintain an in-depth understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives, and be able to clearly articulate these to your team and your media partners.

Leadership:
• Ensure all new team members are onboarded correctly in line with the Enboarder workflow.
• Manage the day-to-day activities of the team to ensure that SOX controls, SLAs and KPIs are adhered to.
• Manage leave and team absences to ensure coverage for team responsibilities and minimal impact to remaining team members.
• Motivate the team to achieve individual, team and organizational goals.
• Develop and train team members to ensure they reach their potential.
• Empower team members with skills to improve their confidence, product knowledge, and communication skills.
• Conduct fortnightly 1:1 check-ins, annual Career Conversations and Annual Performance Reviews through Culture Amp.
• Liaise with the People Team to resolve all team disputes to ensure a safe and productive team environment.
• Create and foster a cohesive team environment through team activities and cultural moments.

WHAT MAKES A GREAT MARKETPLACE MANAGER
• Advanced practical knowledge of media landscapes
• Relevant experience in Media or Marketing
• Experience managing a direct report

Performance Partnerships Account Executive - Job description
WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $70,000 - $82,500 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

ROLE OUTLINE
• Work closely with the Account Manager to support across day-to-day campaign advertising operations responsibilities.
• Undertake the setup of campaigns within the ad management platforms.
• Produce campaign reports across your accounts. Overtime, you can increase these responsibilities to include deep-diving into the data to find useful trends, analyse results and identify key insights.
• Assess daily campaign reporting to identify and flag any performance trends across accounts.
• Work closely with the FAST team to better understand report templates, data sources and reporting metrics. Provide feedback to team regarding reporting standard, templates and processes.
• Manage your workflow and responses to ensure agreed deadlines are met, we are obliging with our service level agreements and executing tasks with 100% accuracy.
• Provide campaign statistics to the Account Manager and Department Head, for monthly client presentations and reviews.
• Supportive tasks to the management team, with opportunities to meet people across the broader business and contribute to making Mindshare a great place to work.
• Build yourself to be an expert in our technologies by undertaking all specialist accreditation, as well as developing a sound understanding of ad serving technologies, tracking set up, conversion tracking and technical troubleshooting across platform.
• Build a great working relationship with your team, operating seamlessly together to deliver success for our clients, across the briefing, booking, set up, optimisation and reporting processes.
• Develop strong, trusted relationships with your Mindshare peers, agencies, clients and platform partners, advocating and effectively communicating your specialist solutions and services.
• Cultivate a positive team culture of fun, productivity, knowledge sharing and growth.
• Epitomise the Mindshare vision and values, and sets a positive example for your peers.

What you’ll bring:
• An understanding of digital media and the technology landscape is desirable.
• Exposure to performance marketing, reporting, data analysis or advertising technologies would be highly desirable.
• Good grasp of Office software, with particular emphasis on Excel.
• A high attention to detail and organisation skills.
• Strong written communication skills.
• To be a team player, with a can-do attitude and the ability to collaborate with your peers.

Minimum qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in a business, statistics, science, marketing or communications related discipline.
• Ideally 6-12 months experience working in a media business.

Performance Director - Job description
WPP AUNZ–Barangaroo NSW
This is a role at GroupM which is part of the WPP network.
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $120,000-$140,000 inclusive of superannuation
Location: Office location will be determined dependent on the right applicant, as we have offices based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth and Brisbane

ABOUT GROUPM:
GroupM is the leading global media investment management company serving as the parent to WPP media agencies including Mindshare, EssenceMediacom, Wavemaker, GroupM Nexus, Acceleration and GOAT. With 1,000+ people based across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, GroupM’s primary purpose is to maximize performance of WPP’s media agencies by operating as leader and collaborator in trading, content creation, sports, digital, finance, proprietary tool development and other business-critical capabilities. GroupM’s focus is to deliver unrivalled advantage to its clients, stakeholders, and people. Combined with GroupM’s global scale, our media investment decisions—guided by brand safety, leading privacy principles and premium relationships— represent 1 out of 3 ads in the global marketplace. Through modern investment services, we put money against goals that move businesses forward.

Role Overview
The role of the Performance team is to deliver the highest excellence in Implementation Planning and Buying, spanning Social, Search, Programmatic and E-Comm, powered by data, technology, and automation, ensuring client campaigns are executed and amplified in an effective, efficient, and future facing way.
The role of Director within the Performance team is to lead, with overall responsibility for the direction, workflow and quality of Implementation Planning and Buying for the client team.

Key Responsibilities
People
· Openly communicate and collaborate with all internal key stakeholders and reports regularly
· Hold regular performance evaluation meetings with reports throughout the year, setting SMART KPIs and creating a clear career development plan with them.
· Review your team's training needs to make sure their career plans are aligned to their progression. Responsible for training and development of all members of the team.
· Responsible for overseeing workflow between all members of the team and escalating any issues.
Clients
· Establish an understanding of client challenges, objectives & initiatives.
· Help build on the agency's reputation for outstanding client service.
· Build strong and enduring client relationships at a senior level.
· Help to provide innovative strategic insights by acting as an expert on the client's business, industry and competitors
· Clear understanding of the in-scope services of your clients and the process for completing work above and beyond.
Product
· Engage with our media partners to build knowledge of the media landscape and understanding of core media principles and the capabilities of each media touchpoint.
· Work collaboratively with Media and/or platform partners, ensuring strong relationships are developed from the outset and you have an understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients
· Engage with internal product teams including GroupM proprietary product and service teams to ensure you have an understanding about their offerings and relevance to our clients.
· Confident in your knowledge of media planning principles (e.g. scheduling, flighting, recency, effective reach theories, seasonality, market prioritisation, roles of all communication channels) and strong ability to utilise agency and industry tools to enhance and support planned recommendation.
· Support the development of media plans, including media plan reconciliation, and the update of plan changes, to ensure accuracy.
· Enrich on-going campaign optimisation to improve business objectives, such as ROAS and CPA, delivering across a range of touch points; sales, store visits, online submissions, downloads etc.
· Complete and maintain all Performance platform certifications (Search, Display, Mobile, Video, Commerce).
· Challenges the status quo offered by platforms, thinking critically about their solutions to get the best outcomes for our clients.
· Use data within platforms to provide insights for client teams & clients to use across other marketing and advertising channels.
· Ensure all reporting is clear, jargon-free and insightful for clients.
· Able to construct and present robust Implementation plans, that are grounded in strategic priorities.
· Brings innovation and creativity to the table, leveraging insights from across the market.
· Developing future fit, market leading Performance strategies for your clients, to fuel growth for their business.
· Ensure client Investment deliverables are met consistently, across all touchpoints.
· Construct and present insightful and progressive post analysis reports.
· Responsible for ensuring all financial and compliance processes are followed with 100% accuracy, including bookings and loadings
· Responsible for the overall delivery of client trading KPI’s
· Seek to find, communicate and implement improvements in all aspects of the role.
· Deliver a well-informed POV in every meeting, providing innovative strategic insights by acting as an expert in your craft.
Growth & Marketing
· Collaborate closely with your Manager to identify, collate and showcase examples of great work from within the team, both internally and externally.
· Build the agency’s reputation by contributing to entries for awards and competitions
· Contribute to thought leadership across the agency’s owned assets (Website, Social, EDM’s etc.)
· Share relevant and insightful commentary internally, for the broader agency.
· Be a positive face of the agency at industry events, either related to clients’ category or our media partners.
· Develop market leading profile via strong relationships internally and externally

What makes a great Performance Director
· Attention to detail: monitoring the quality and accurate of your own work, and that of others
· Organisation: manages expectations across all stakeholders, sets clear priorities
· Team & collaboration: assumes extra responsibilities to facilitate the achievement of team goals
· Communication: effectively communicates business objectives, issues, and outcomes clearly, applies strategic thinking
· Analytical: recognises causes & consequences of actions and events that are not readily apparent
· Flexibility: recognises changing circumstances quickly and proactively implements successful action plans across team
· Proactivity/taking the initiative: consistently contributes to improve work methods, outcomes, and team performance
· Problem solving: identifies root problems and proactively implements solutions, acts to minimise risk across all implementation processes and procedures

Your new company
Hays are exclusively representing a reputable Communications agency in Belfast to recruit a PR Executive. If you are a graduate looking to commence your career in PR or Communications, this is a fantastic opportunity for you!

Your new role
As a PR Client Executive, you will be responsible for:

• Supporting several client accounts across different sectors and industries
• Helping with the planning and delivery of client campaigns and programmes and attending client meetings
• Working with an account management team to create and implement effective PR strategies and activities
• Coordinating and managing PR photography and media events
• Planning and attending various events, such as press conferences and product launches
• Building and maintaining strong relationships with clients, journalists and media outlets
• Monitoring media sources for opportunities and insights for clients and competitors, including online, print, broadcast, social media and blogs.
• Analysing media coverage and preparing client reports and feedback
• Researching, writing and executing engaging press releases to relevant media
• Identifying and capitalising on media and influencer opportunities
• Creating regular status reports and updates
• Working collaboratively in a team environment and supporting colleagues at all levels
• Being adaptable to changing situations and challenges, proactive and flexible
• Supporting the development of new business proposals and presentations

What you'll need to succeed

• Outstanding writing abilities
• Creativity and imagination
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Good presentation abilities
• Proficiency in Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Capability to forge and maintain relationships internally and externally
• Confidence
• Proactive
• Excellent organisational skills, adept at handling multiple projects concurrently.
• Adaptable, determined, enthusiastic, and able to thrive under pressure. Enthusiasm and the ability to cope well under pressure.

Desirable:

• A third level qualification, desirable if in CAM, PR, Communications, Marketing, Journalism or a related discipline
• One year's experience in a similar experience within Communications or PR
• Business awareness and a good knowledge of current affairs
• Strategic thinking abilities and strong analytical skills.
• Hold a current & valid full UK driving licence with full access to a vehicle
  
  

What you'll get in return
Salary of £23,000-£24,000 depending on experience, continuous professional development, onboarding & training, enhanced paid leave + day of your birthday, paid membership of CIPR & PRCA, mental health and wellbeing platform, private healthcare, company pension scheme, year-round calendar of fun team building program & initiatives and more.


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