Account Manager

Company Description

Octopus Group is an award-winning B2B marketing agency based on Chancery Lane, London. B2B and technology are our big passions. We take a different approach to B2B and technology marketing, built on the understanding that brands thrive when awareness and sales work together. Our guiding Brand to Sales philosophy is all about helping our clients link brand reputation to commercial sales success, creating powerful campaigns that build brands and grow businesses. Our creative, commercially driven campaigns have recently won us the Grand Prix in the B2B Marketing Awards, Drum B2B Awards and 3 PR Week Awards and countless other industry accolades.

Job Description

The opportunity:

We’re recruiting for an enthusiastic PR Account Manager keen to get stuck into a great and diverse portfolio of clients covering IT and Technology. As Account Manager you’ll be responsible for coordinating a team of two Account Executives and driving the success of client programmes in partnership with an Account Director.

As the key client contact, you’ll provide regular consultancy around key initiatives, employing your expertise to deliver the best PR solutions. And, working in a fully integrated agency, you’ll have many opportunities to work on cross-discipline campaigns and learn from specialists from strategy to paid media and beyond.

We’re seeking candidates with a thirst to learn and push their PR skills to the limit at one of the UK’s leading B2B marketing agencies.

What You’ll Do

• Coordinating and driving world-class PR programmes for an established portfolio of tech clients
• Guiding and motivating a team of Account Executives to drive client success
• Working with Account Directors to develop creative and highly effective PR and influencer campaigns
• Developing hands-on PR and social media plans aligned to client objectives
• Leading from the front in media and influencer engagement to secure opportunities for clients in target media
• Developing measurement and evaluation models for clients to track and demonstrate ROI
• Regular copywriting and content quality control for a diverse range of content types including blogs, bylined articles, social media posts, press releases, case studies, awards and client Q&As
• Arranging and leading team and client update meetings including preparation of reports, proactive ideas etc.
• Supporting client development alongside Account Directors and client owners
• Being day-to-day contact for clients, providing consultancy and communicating in a proactive and timely manner to show progress
• Relationship building and networking with colleagues, clients and the media
• Providing well-informed and timely advice to both clients and internal departments in order to continually optimise client PR programs
• Staying abreast of key news and evolving stories in client sectors and more broadly and using insight to drive new ideas and creativity for clients

Qualifications

What you’ll bring

• B2B experience working agency-side within a similar role
• Ability to demonstrate strong copywriting skills
• A keen demonstratable interest in the news, media and trending topics
• Ability to create coherent, intelligent and well-thought-through communications plans
• Proactive, personable and self-motivated
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
• Highly developed interpersonal, team building and relationship management skills in order to gain trust with established clients and mentor team members
• Extremely organised with meticulous planning and project management skills and the ability to work independently and meet deadlines
• Nice to have: Proven experience/understanding of multi-channel campaigns and content marketing disciplines

Additional Information

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