Account Supervisor to Account Director, Legal PR

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Title: Account Manager - Account Director, Legal PR Communications

Industry: Integrated Public Relations

Location: New York City or San Francisco or DC

Type: Full-Time

**PR Agency experience is a must**

Our client, a prominent award winning integrated public relations firm is seeking a skilled media relations professional with exceptional client management skills and an understanding of the legal and professional services markets, the Account Manager OR Account Director plays a key role in driving the agency’s creation of strategic media plans to meet client objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple projects for 5-6 clients from concept to completion by anticipating challenges, troubleshooting problems, proposing solutions, offering client counsel, overseeing quality, and ensuring deadline and budget adherence.
• Develop key messages and effective media pitches on timely news issues; send pitches to journalists and follow up to secure opportunities.
• Take lead on client service administration activities, including preparing client status and activity reports; attending meetings, events and conference calls; tracking for and compiling media coverage; and coordinating interview scheduling.
• Contribute to creation of strategic media plans to meet client objectives.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key journalists in person and via phone and email.
• Serve as a line manager for interns, Junior Account Executives and Account Executives; provide on-boarding support, training and ongoing feedback and participate in reviews.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of four years’ PR/communications work experience with at least one year in an account and team management role.
• Highly curious, creative and self-motivated, with superior critical thinking, communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills.
• Proven track record of successfully implementing a variety of creative and effective public relations initiatives that have generated measurable results for clients in the professional services industry.
• Skilled with media database software (Cision) and research tactics.

Contact Person

Pebbles Obando

Principal Consultant

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