As an Account Director, you’ll be responsible for the successful delivery of client programmes – whether press office or a creative campaign. You’ll be committed to ensuring work is delivered within budget and on time, as well as meeting our high quality control standards and meeting or exceeding KPIs. You’ll be adept at planning in advance and commercially savvy; responsible for budget management, capacity planning and helping to grow your accounts or identify new income streams. You’ll have experience working on big, multi-layered brand campaigns as well as running efficient press offices and influencer programmes.

• Your role as senior account lead is pivitol. You must have a 360-awareness of what’s happening across your mix of client accounts at all times, ensuring the smooth running of every project, and that all work is moving forward in a timely fashion
• An efficient and strategic forward planner, you’ll know how to keep one eye on the detail and one on the bigger picture to pre-empt challenges, navigate the media and cultural landscape, guide your team and identify opportunities for clients and new business
• You must be a proficient client handler, confident in giving accurate counsel and role modelling strong client relationships, striking that all important balance between firm and friendly

• Being commercially savvy and having an understanding of the financial workings of an agency means you’ll assist in capacity planning and monitoring account resource. An awareness of revenue targets across your clients will see you provide support to your Associates on account growth plans

• Your experience will mean you’re confident in handling campaign curveballs and client challenges proactively and professionally, modelling a solutions focussed approach and knowing when it’s time to escalate to your Associates
• Bring positive energy, fresh thinking and approach all aspects of your role with vim and vigor; inspiring and motivating your colleagues to follow suit – even when the going gets tough
• Employ a tenacious approach to delivering great work. You won’t settle for less than exceptional – be that delivering campaign results that smash KPIs, or ensuring work that leaves your desk has been through your rigorous quality control and is client ready
• A confident coach and mentor, you’ll be responsible for developing your junior team and a self-starter when it comes to your own development
• Your knowledge of PR and the wider comms mix will mean you understand how to deliver an integrated campaign, including working with influencers, third party agency teams and stakeholders.

Skills & experience

These are the types of things we’re looking for in candidates:

• Excellent writing skills. From crafting a compelling news story, to succinct social copy and client comms. Great attention to detail is a must, especially when it comes to spotting spelling mistakes and grammatical errors

• Creative thinking skills to identify proactive ideas, problem solves, newsjacking opportunities, press office tactics and influencer activations

• Great organisational skills; juggling your own actions and helping your team members to do the same. Overseeing weekly work planning set by AM and ensuring that team members are clear on their responsibilities

• Outstanding media relations and an eye for a good story. Watertight knowledge of the media landscape, the ability to spot opportunities for reactive newshijacking – and the passion to make it happen

• Agency environments can occasionally be stressful, so the ability to work well under pressure and previous experience working in a fast-paced, agency environment is essential

• Strong IT skills across Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint – we use MacBooks at Tin Man

• Good communications and interpersonal skills at every level, and a high regard for confidentiality when needed

• Essentially, we’re looking for someone smart, organised and driven - with a proactive attitude who is not afraid to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in