Role overview:
We’re looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and commercially astute team player with an affinity for business and communications to successfully deliver in the role of Account Director within the Capital Markets division.
Offering a great opportunity for learning and development, this position is a fantastic next step in your career in Capital Markets communications.
Our ideal candidate will be bright and energetic in nature. You’ll have both the resilience and gravitas to successfully support clients and the wider team.
You’ll hold a variety of responsibilities and undertake a wide range of exciting and challenging work that includes frequent client contact, participating in new business activity, arranging events and supporting marketing initiatives.
Our Account Directors are ambitious and proactive.
They deliver business impact for our clients through their understanding of the industries in which they operate. They’re passionate about the world of media and communications and keep up to date with its developments.
Our Account Directors ensure all accounts are running smoothly, with a core focus on accuracy, attention to detail and meticulous planning.
Essential skills and experience:
Minimum of five years’ communications experience in Capital Markets
Interest and enthusiasm for the City and Capital Markets communications
Passion for the media, current affairs and business
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with good attention to detail
Analytical, creative and inquisitive
Time management skills, including adapting to changing priorities and multi-tasking to deliver to deadlines, as well as a flexible attitude to working out of hours on occasions when required
A strong understanding of the media, with the communication and business skills needed to run accounts
Able to handle RNS news announcements, including managing client sign-off
Good understanding of the role of social media and the broader digital landscape
Recognises a crisis situation and knows how to escalate the response
Preferable but not essential skills and experience:
o Effective at delivering financial calendar communications programmes
o Developing advisory skills and growing awareness of regulatory best practice
o Able to judge a material price-sensitive issue and seek senior counsel
o Developing a network of City contacts, as well as financial/business media contacts
Responsibilities:
Running a broad range of tasks and supporting other Capital Markets team members
Compiling coverage reports and conducting research
Day-to-day client contact and managing relationships where appropriate
Provision of advice and guidance to clients
Ensuring efficient, high-quality day-to-day delivery of client programmes
Driving and coordinating media and analyst relations activity
Drafting written materials that are well-informed and audience-appropriate, requiring minimal input from senior team members
Assisting in the development of new business proposals and pitch presentations
Planning and managing the organisation of client events
Assisting in the nurturing of junior team members, including on-the-job coaching
Drafting press releases and handling RNS announcements
Building media and sell-side analyst relations skills
Social media engagement
The role offers a strong focus on personal development, with access to formal training programmes.
TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency that has moved from start-up to multinational in a little over two decades. Its success is due to a combination of factors: its ability to read the future and prepare for it; leveraging cutting-edge AI; strategic thinkers delivering award-winning campaigns; expanding client relationships into new markets or services; and, above all, independence from outside investors. The practice, its people and its campaigns have won many awards, including Cannes Lions, PRovoke Media, ICCO, European Excellence, PRCA Digital, Digital Impact and Global Digital Excellence.
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