Date Posted: Friday 18th February 2022
Date Expires: Friday 18th March 2022
This is an exciting opportuinity for an ambitious and connected fashion PR who wants to join a fun, young and close knit team in a mid-senior level role working across campaign, press office and influencer client work.
We are instinct PR, a consumer lifestyle & fashion agency based near Spitalfields with a 15-strong team of PR experts, publicists, creatives and strategic thinkers. For further details about the company, please click here.
We Are Relationships is our agency ethos; it comes across everything we do for clients, media and eachother. Our values are personable, connected and results driven which are applied to all our work and has a very high success rate, with our average client and team retention period at 5+ years.
We are looking for an ambitious and smart Senior Fashion Publicist to join our team, driving media relations for our fashion division and working across some of our recent client wins as well as supporting the ongoing growth of our core clients. This role offers the opportunity to work on leading brands such as White Stuff, Diadora, Replay, QVC, Sekonda and St James and our latest win, Nautica, across press office and influencer relations as well as creative campaigns.
Not bogged down by unnecessary process or hierarchy, we are a progressive employer and love seeing our team develop and grow, both professionally and personally, as proven by our outstanding team retention record. This approach has helped us to flourish as a business, expanding our capabilities and our clients. And we have big ambitions to continue this expansion.
About You
The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3-4 years experience working in fashion PR agencies on high street fashion brands and a HOT little black book!
The day-to-day
- Develop strong senior press relationships and manage contacts with key commentators, industry spokespeople and relevant influencers
- Managing client service and agency performance for pure-press office clients; responsible for KPI delivery
- Develop news angles, stories and pitches to further the client’s profile, products and services
- Take ownership of creating press materials
- Lead sell-ins across your team – managing media lists and briefing team
- Devise and produce proactive media campaigns – from idea generation to implementation through media plans
- Monitor media coverage and prepare regular evaluation reports
- Attend press conferences or interviews with the organisation’s spokespeople
- Regular attend media meetings and encourage team to do the same
- Regularly share interesting articles and trends among the team and clients
- Assisting with winning new business and developing current client accounts
Key responsibilities:
- Manage and coordinate the team to achieve and exceed client objectives
- Provide expert counsel to clients and agency team members across a broad range of media topics and trends
- Manage, review and edit all press materials, media lists, pitches, reports, etc
- Start to identify new business opportunities and attend new business pitches and present accordingly
- Create and foster a learning environment and offer sound advice, suggestions and guidance to the supporting staff members
- Champion the agency values and brand
- Key contact for clients
Key skills:
- Possess a positive attitude, passion for media and PR, grace under pressure and ability to work in a fast-paced environment
- Keen networker and adept at building relationships with key influencers and clients
- Expertise at handling a range of media to place products, grow brands or secure news coverage
- Promote professionalism through manner, appearance and delivery and always keeping promises
- Exceptional written, verbal and presentation skills
- Outstanding interpersonal skills
- Be a trend setter, stay on top of the news and always be relevant
No recruitment agencies
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