MUSE Communications - Senior Associate Director (Permanent or Freelance Role)
Date Posted: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Date Expires: Saturday 23rd December 2023
MUSE Communications is a small and super friendly comms team that bring a boundless energy to all of our clients – mostly of which are founder led. As an ambitious senior executive team, we love to grow brands with unique communication campaigns and passion whilst being a constant counsel to our amazing clients.
Our team consists of industry experts, having previously worked within the luxury sector across cosmetics, fragrance, hair, and wellbeing. It’s important to us that we uphold and preserve our agency’s credibility by bringing brands and their stories to life with authenticity and relatability in today’s ever changing media landscape.
This is an exciting opportunity for the right person to really showcase their talents and use their autonomy to drive results and awareness for our curated portfolio of beauty clients. This is an opportunity to really demonstrate business and entrepreneurial flair and further develop the role as the business grows.
Key Responsibilities
- Providing senior leadership within the business.
- Managing client relationships and building long-term partnerships with key client groups.
- Providing feedback and dialogue with existing clients and evaluating current and past projects.
- Executing creative client projects and liaising with key team members regarding delivery and success.
- Generating new business and identifying growth opportunities within current client contracts.
- Developing a consistent and innovative corporate brand message.
- Developing the public relations team alongside other senior leaders to support brand building exercises and boost positive client media coverage.
- Taking ownership of storytelling with new and creative ideas, driving the editorial strategy with content pitches, press releases and new campaigns in a range of media including social media.
- Monitoring the industry and external climate to advise on public relations strategy, opportunities and positioning.
- Managing public relations crises and providing counsel to senior leaders.
- Reporting into the MD and FD and supplying high level data and financial analysis.
- Developing senior press relationships and managing contacts with key commentators, industry spokespeople and sector influencers.
Key skills
- Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Ability to present to a range of stakeholders at a senior level and at client events.
- Creative approach with an ability to initiate new campaigns.
- Team management, delegation, and supervisory skills.
- Keen networker with an ability to build and maintain large numbers of industry and media contacts.
- Team player with leadership and management skills within a PR environment.
- Project management talents with an aptitude for organisation and attention to detail.
- Ability to analyse complex data and interpret it for a range of audiences.
- Business acumen with the ability to communicate across departments and represent PR at a senior level within the business.
Relevant experience
- At least eight years solid PR experience within the beauty and/or luxury sector or other industry relevant to this role.
- A strong industry network and contacts with senior journalists and members of the press.
- Excellent client handling.
- Proven track record of successfully implementing PR campaigns for a range of clients.
- Polished presenter and adept at explaining PR terms and outcomes to senior players.
- Commercial acumen and experience of developing new business.
- A deep understanding and knowledge of the PR and communications sector.
- Management experience of developing star performers and overseeing performance.
- Experience in managing budgets.
- Driven, ambitious and willing to contribute to the business.
Qualifications
- Qualifications in a relevant discipline including marketing, communications or business is desirable but not essential.
Benefits after a successful trial period
- Private health insurance
- Company mobile
- Performance Coaching
- Potential Share Options
- Generous Holiday Allowance
- Hybrid Working
No recruitment agencies
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