PR Senior Account Manager

Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh 

Working Pattern: Full time, hybrid working (3 days in, 2 from home) with flexi

About Grayling UK

Our people are in equal parts exceptional professionals and wonderful human beings. We live by being brave, curious, and collaborative, which helps us deliver award-winning work for our clients.

We’ve created a culture that champions personal growth and development, empowering everyone to be creative, innovate enjoy their work. Your growth is our priority because when you thrive, so do we. We’re serious about our work but never about ourselves, so if you’re looking for your next move, are passionate about PR and want to join an award-winning agency, you’ve come to the right place!

The day to day

We are recruiting for an experienced, hands-on Senior Account Manager with corporate communications experience. You’ll be responsible for supporting the senior team by being a trusted advisor and providing strategic counsel to clients, ensuring that excellent results are delivered for our clients and taking a lead in driving business development initiatives.

As Senior Account Manager you’ll get to:

• Develop more junior team members using the appropriate people management techniques, empowering the team to achieve their full potential
• Be the day-to-day lead on a number of client accounts, ensuring their success and leading the team to hit KPIs which ultimately support our clients’ business goals
• Take a leading role in delivering new business, leading new business initiatives and driving pipeline growth by proactively identifying and delivering opportunities for growth
• Resolve client issues swiftly and successfully, always having a grasp on desired outcomes
• Develop an understanding of client profitability and support the Directors in ensuring client profitability across the team
• Develop a strong network across Grayling globally, leveraging opportunities to work together for commercial benefit and to enhance professional development and learning
• Build an external network and proactively uses it to the benefit of Grayling

What will give you the edge

• Experience in developing and executing corporate communications strategies and campaigns
• A sharp business and PR acumen to quickly determine short- and long-term priorities to ensure all client needs are met
• Experience in managing and working on a diverse range of corporate and consumer accounts, with a key focus on corporate
• A strong thought leadership writer
• Strategic, analytical thinker with the initiative to see key campaigns through from start to finish
• Strong understanding of both traditional and digital public relations
• Curious – a desire to learn, improve, apply new knowledge and develop self
• Organised with ability to juggle multiple and changing priorities
• Supportive, inspiring and motivational leader
• Personal drive with a passion for the industry and staying abreast of current affairs
• Calm and authoritative in response to issues or crisis

• Flexible working arrangements, including hybrid working (where you can work two days a week from home)
• 25 days’ holiday, increasing by one day every year up to 30 days.
• Duvet morning on your birthday 
• Gifted time off over Christmas 
• Flexible benefits platform where you are in complete control of what you receive. It could be anything from dental to gym membership, wellbeing initiatives, training, discount deals or simply a contribution to everyday bills and subscriptions (think Netflix, Amazon, Spotify etc!)
• Free breakfasts & weekly drinks in the office
• Regular team socials and early finish Fridays. 
• Personal development opportunities, through our Grayling Advantage Academy (with courses ranging from writing, resilience, creativity and more) 
• New business and employee referral bonuses.
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme offering a 24/7 confidential advice line
• Life assurance

Get to know us

Grayling is the UK’s best-connected communications agency. With nine offices across the UK and 22 globally, we create advantage for our clients through insight-led campaigns that deliver tangible results.

We’re a friendly bunch and life at Grayling will offer you a whole host of benefits including 4pm Friday finishes, hybrid working, regular training workshops and regular socials.

We believe diversity is strength. Our commitment at Grayling is to combine our employees’ unique backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build a more diverse and inclusive organization that represents all of us and the businesses we work with. We undertake blind recruiting to review all our job applications as we believe that each candidate should be assessed based on their skills and experience, and not on bias parameters such as gender, ethnicity or age.