Senior Communications Executive
14 hours ago
City of London
ROLE: Communications Executive SEEN Group Vision: Be the agency the Beauty world wants to work with. SEEN Group Mission: Originating ideas so inspiring they elevate perceptions of Beauty. SEEN Group Values: • Creativity, • Inclusivity, • Positivity, • Excellence Role Overview: The Senior Communications Executive is a vital role within the agency and is instrumental in effectively executing communication plans on behalf of their designated clients, ensuring a proactive, leading approach. You are well organized and drive efficiencies across your team, demonstrating clear updates and knowledge for your clients. Roles & Responsibilities: Client Service: • Strong support to account lead, with timely management of account actions and account admin to deliver BIC client service, • Establish client relationships as a trusted and efficient ‘go-to’ for owned account actions, • Display good understanding of the clients’ business, remit and challenges – circulate articles of interest/competitor analysis to clients and the wider team on a regular basis, showcasing a clear point of relevance for each brand, • Lead elements of client calls and own preparation of agendas and minutes to meet deadlines, • Ensuring weekly/monthly reporting is delivered with keen attention to detail and by designated deadlines to senior team members, • Deliver timely coverage updates and coverage emails, with a clear explanation of the coverage driver and quality Skill Set: • Great written and verbal presentation skills, owning press office proposals and delivering client updates/proposals as part of client calls and meetings, • Regularly manage projects from inception to delivery to create PR assets and events - play a key role in presenting proposal to the client to secure budget & activity approval, • Assist in the development of strategic client proposals, providing superior writing and editing skills, research and local market insights to support the AM and SAM wherever possible, • Excellent media and influencer relationships, to the benefit of day-to-day client pitching and in-role specialism, • Creative thinking across press office plans, activities and tactical storytelling, • Active role within earned and paid for influencer strategies with senior account team, • Share articles of interest with the wider team to continue beauty knowledge and relevance, • Management of press and influencer mailers and seeding programmes to a high standard, • Responsibility to create and maintain external supplier lists, ensuring they are inclusive, relevant and cost effective, • Oversight of agency media contact list to ensure it’s updated on daily basis, • Create and manage internal press office budgets and trackers, • Become proficient at managing project job bags on Paprika and complete budget reconciliation on a regular basis, • Management of team press assistant, managing workloads and priorities each week, • Contribution to SEEN’s social team to ensure they are kept up to date on client news and content opportunities