Salary – from £50,000
We are Harvard: a multi award-winning agency for tech brands big and small. With services spanning creative and marketing, planning and PR, we help our clients make their move and our people make their mark.
We’ve grown phenomenally in the last few years to a 70+ strong business with global clients – and we continue to expand.
We are now looking for a B2B PR Account Director to join the team and build a career here.
Who you are
You are a driver, both for our clients and for our account teams. With a day-to-day focus on client and people management, you are fully across the strategic priorities for your accounts and adept at guiding your clients and nurturing your team to deliver on those.
You are….
…confidante to our clients
…nurturing to our account teams
…driver to our business
…best practice leader between clients, account teams, planning, editorial, creative & design
…expert in technology, PR & marketing
You are the trusted advisor who helps guide our clients to the optimal outcome, producing best-in-class strategic and creative work. Across the agency, you are our go to expert on best practice day-to-day marketing tactics across the funnel.
What you do
For our clients…
- Drive the rhythm of work across your accounts, taking a monthly and quarterly view to planning and execution
- Simultaneously manage multiple projects / clients and ensure delivery against targets on a quarterly basis
- Work with your associate director/director to develop strategy and scopes of work for clients
- Liaise with clients 1:1 providing consultancy, developing strong relationships, and spotting client development opportunities
- Manage the writing of excellent long and short form content for digital and print media across accounts, proofing and editing confidently
- Be a media expert – pitching and securing top-level interview and byline opportunities with national, broadcast and internal media to help elevate your clients
- Manage client finances and drive organic growth among your client base: drafting proposals, providing revenue updates and ensuring profitability of projects
- Engage our full service offering where appropriate to ensure our clients are receiving a best-in-class service
- Manage financial commitments with third-party suppliers such as research companies, regional PR offices etc. on behalf of clients
For our team…
- Motivate and manage your teams, monitoring resource requirements and flagging issues to your directors
- Guide and mentor junior members of the team as well as developing career plans and undertaking coaching for any direct reports, leading by example and sharing best practice advice
- Work as a team player in the agency and identify opportunities for editorial, creative, and planning to be involved wherever needed
- Feed updates and ideas on improving working practices to director / team lead and support new business activities
- Set an example in media relations – use the contacts you’ve developed over the years and show the junior team how to nurture these relationships themselves
For our agency…
- Develop your PR and marketing knowledge and skillset to actively suggest new ideas and advise Harvard’s integrated client portfolio
- Identify and develop new business opportunities as appropriate to new and existing clients
- Contribute to developing case studies of client work for the Harvard website, creds presentations
- Contribute to and proactively share Harvard’s own marketing and social output
- Work with senior leadership to create a positive, inclusive culture at Harvard
- Participate in our training programme – Never Stop Learning
- Approach the development of your role with enthusiasm and commitment
Our Values
Harvard’s values are fundamental to helping ensure we operate in a high performing manner, remain people-first, and succeed as an organisation collectively. We expect us all to live and breathe these values. They encapsulate the culture that fosters a happy, supportive and rewarding working environment, and also drive growth for our business by helping us know our clients and unlock opportunities. The Harvard values are:
COURAGE – We actively challenge – ourselves, our clients and the industry – by being brave, thinking big and always striving to do better
COMPASSION – We put people first, creating an environment rooted in kindness, empathy, respect and inclusivity.
CURIOSITY – We are strategic and creative problem solvers, restless in our learning and in the pursuit of innovation.
CANDOUR – We quickly and openly address challenges head-on and have the conversations we need to in order to do the right thing and get to the right answer.
COMMITMENT – We strive every day for high-performance, as individuals and for the collective, aligning personal success and growth with the success of the business as a whole.
What we promise you
At Harvard we believe that your career should be driven by you, guided by a brilliant line manager and enabled by us as an agency. With that in mind, you will have:
- The empowerment and autonomy to take control of your own career path and make use of all of the support and guidance available
- Comprehensive training through easy access to our ‘Never Stop Learning’ programme
- A talent management structure built around personal contact and clear communication on career paths and the meaning of high performance at Harvard
- A diverse and varied client-base, with opportunities to build skills, try new types of work and work across teams
- An equal and inclusive culture and approach, ensuring that all voices are heard and respected and we continue embrace new ideas
