The role –  Account Manager

• Responsible for high quality day-to day deliverables on client accounts, with a focus on corporate communications and media relations. 

• Nurturing and maintaining junior relationships with existing clients and fostering relationships with new prospects. 

• Focusing on quality and having a deep understanding of our clients’ objectives, to provide insight, analysis and advice to our clients day-to-day. 

• Contributing to client meetings, ensuring consistent high standard of work, and providing clear feedback to junior members of the team on deliverables including monitoring notes and briefings. 

• Supporting and coaching junior account teams with their work and progression. 

• Playing a key supporting role within the team on business development and supporting delivery of the corporate communications marketing plan. 

We’re looking for candidates with: 

• Experience delivering communications campaigns across channels. 

• A keen interest in current affairs, storytelling, speech-writing, politics, policy, digital campaigning and business. 

• Excellent writing skills, with a keen eye for detail. 

• A passion for a fast-paced and varied working environment, such as in a busy press office, in-house communications team or PR agency. 

• Some experience of account management in agency, or equivalent in-house role with demonstrable experience of managing deliverables and working across teams. 

• Candidates with 3+ years’ experience in a communications role at a consultancy or relevant in-house role are preferred. 

• Experience using tools and databases like Roxhill, Meltwater or Signal (or similar). 

• A good understanding of the media (at a national, regional and trade level) and how the landscape is changing. 

The successful candidate will: 

• Work with well-known companies and brands in the FMCG, tech, retail, health and energy sectors making an important, tangible contribution to the UK. 

• Help these clients, and our team, to develop and execute campaigns. 

• Be part of an exciting consultancy focused on delivering high quality work that helps our clients act to earn reputation and advocacy. 

Benefits: 

• Bonus: Discretionary bonus of up to 15% of salary if the company performs and you individually perform 

• Flexible working policy including 3 days in the office, including Mondays. 

• Pension: Statutory pension 

• Leave: 25 days holiday per year (Jan-Dec) 

• Wellbeing policy: one additional day off each month as a wellbeing day, in addition to annual leave allowance 

• Freedom to work from overseas for up to two weeks each year 

• Health insurance following probationary period 

• Enhanced maternity leave policy 

For more information or to apply, please email hello@5654.co.uk with your CV and a cover letter. 

The closing date for applications is 15th August, with interviews due to take place in late August.