Senior Account Manager (B2B Travel Pr)

We’re looking for an accomplished, astute and dependable PR professional with an interest in businesses in the international travel industry to join our friendly team. This is the perfect role for an existing Senior Account Manager who would like a change of scene, or an Account Manager who is ready to take a step up. Either way you will have significant experience in successfully and independently managing multiple client accounts, as well as managing an account team.

Working closely with the senior team, you will be responsible for delivering PR programmes for global organisations, primarily within the B2B airport and travel retail industries. International travel to Cannes in October may be required, and there may also be opportunities to travel to other destinations such as Paris or Singapore.

Alongside running your client accounts, you will also manage your junior team and be responsible for their development, helping to drive the growth of the company.

If you are exceptionally organised, see yourself as a safe pair of hands and are looking to shape your future in PR with a boutique agency at an exciting time in its development, then this is for you.

APPLICATIONS WILL BE REVIEWED AS THEY ARE RECEIVED.

Key responsibilities

• Client management – taking a lead on the day-to-day management of 3-7 (dependent on size and remit) global client accounts within travel, including devising frameworks for impactful client reporting and evaluation
• PR strategy – working with the senior team to create strategic PR plans and programmes for clients
• Writing – Writing all day-to-day written material for clients and supervising junior team members in the creation of content
• Industry expertise – Delivering sound strategic counsel, demonstrating a good understanding of our clients’ businesses and industries, and building trusted client relationships
• Event management – project managing the preparation of global trade events, including on-site press centre management where required
• Social media– managing content creation for clients (primarily LinkedIn, Instagram and YouTube)
• Team management – Managing the day-to-day work and professional development of junior team members
• Crisis management – providing crisis communications support and consultancy

Experience and skills required

Personal specification – essential:

• PR consultancy background
• Experience managing multiple client accounts
• Strong writing & communication skills
• Confident and experienced in managing and developing teams
• Ability to thrive in fast-paced, high-pressure environments
• Excellent attention to detail
• Sharp organisation skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities and tasks
• Enthusiasm to have the opportunity to run the press office at international travel trade events, which may involve working outside of traditional hours (such as weekends or bank holidays)
• Interest and belief in the global benefits of the travel industry

Personal specification – desirable:

• Experience in corporate communications, B2B or travel PR
• Working knowledge of foreign languages

Location

Our office on Eccleston Square, next to London Victoria station. Option to work from home Mondays and Fridays.

Benefits include...

• 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays per year (opportunity to increase to 34 days plus BHs after one year)
• Personal annual training budget
• Flexible working/working from home
• Gym membership
• Annual wellbeing allowance
• Pension
• October team trip to Cannes
• Christmas bonus
• Private health insurance
• Priority Pass Prestige membership
• AirBnB gift card
• Give As You Earn
• Giving back days
• Carbon Neutral Plus subscription
• Bills support
• Travel grants
• Sabbaticals

About us

Templemere PR provides world-class reputation management and communications consultancy to businesses working in the travel and transportation industries. From travel technology to travel retail, airports and airlines to rail, we are experts in what we call ‘the business of travel’.

We help businesses communicate effectively with existing customers and attract the attention of potential new clients. We combine imaginative ideas with genuine understanding of what does and doesn’t work in PR, and deliver results that can be measured in terms of their effect on our clients’ businesses.

Whether the brief is to promote the opening of an airport lounge, increase awareness of a new travel app, manage the publicity of an international travel trade association, or build a deal-winning reputation for an airport food and beverage operator, our strategic and sophisticated approach to PR is always focussed on delivering real commercial value and linking investment in PR to boosting profitability.

If you are looking for a great opportunity where you can provide crucial support to clients and feel valued as an essential member of the team, then this is for you! We are at an exciting time in our agency’s development, and we hope that you will be a part of our future progress…

Website: www.templemerepr.co.uk