Interim Senior Account Manager - Consumer PR

Location: On-site, London, England, United Kingdom

Contract: Fixed Term Contract, 3 to 6 months

We are looking for a Freelance PR Senior Account Manager to lead retained and campaign work for high-profile consumer clients, combining client service, creative delivery, media relations, project management, and team leadership.

Working across a range of our favourite food brands the role involves:

• Client and campaign leadership: Day-to-day client contact, coordination of meetings and status calls, monitoring budgets, demonstrating a strong understanding of client needs, presenting creative PR proposals with clear rollout, asset, and media plans.
• Content and media delivery: Responsibilities include leading campaign shoots, ensuring assets meet brand guidelines, drafting and approving media releases, monitoring creative processes, identifying news opportunities, building journalist relationships, securing coverage, and training junior staff in media engagement.
• Planning, reporting, and people management: Supervising a team, running brainstorms, creating campaign plans and timelines, managing budgets and resources, preparing client-ready reports, delegating work, setting objectives and mentoring junior colleagues with limited Account Director involvement.

Experience and capabilities: you will need solid consumer PR experience through Senior Account Management level, have strong communication, time and project management skills, mentoring or line-management experience, creativity, resilience, adaptability, teamwork, tenacity, and a passion for PR.

• Exceptional client management skills, with a track record in exceeding expectations
• Excellent media relations skills and strong project and team management are a must
• Ability to work at pace and to changing priorities and challenges
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Previous experience of direct line management of junior team members
• Ability to manage fluctuating workloads, stay calm and focused
• Creativity and ability to innovate
• Strong team working skills, resilience, tenacity and a sense of humour
• A real passion for PR, trends and media

• FMCG experience ideal

• 25 days annual leave plus Bank holidays (increases by 1 day each year to a maximum of 30) (pro rated)
• Early finish on Friday (4:30pm)
• Office closedown between Christmas and New Year - this is an additional 3 days off
• Pre-Pay Day lunch provided by Splendid