Salary – from £24,000-£25,000
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 an 80+ strong business with global clients – and we continue to expand. We are now looking for a PR Junior Account Executive to join the consumer team at Eat the Fox and build a career here.
About the role
You are….
…reporter to our clients
…support to our account teams
…energy to our business
…communicator between clients and account teams
…mastering consumer technology, PR and media
You are the lynchpin that ensures the smooth running of strategic client work and campaigns, you should know your accounts inside and out, thinking about how we ensure we achieve our targets each month. Across the agency, you are our go to expert on the latest consumer stories, media trends, and everyday creativity.
What you do
For our clients…
- Drive the day-to-day rhythm of work across your accounts, including media, influence and social
- Be a media hound – pitching and securing a steam of feature, product review, thought leadership and rapid response opportunities to make sure there is real thrust to all accounts
- Simultaneously complete tasks across multiple accounts and projects
- Respond to and liaise with clients, providing consultancy and developing strong relationships
- Contribute to our clients’ media planning by drafting, updating, and maintaining the media and influencer content calendar as well as spotting proactive and reactive media and social opportunities
- Write well-thought through written materials, including product briefing documents, opinion pieces, content creator briefs and social posts
- Take ownership of client admin: writing contact reports, providing live updates on coverage secured, updating the scorecards and status reports
For our team…
- Work to build out your own media and influencer contacts, developing relationships with journalists, agents and content creators
- Support each other by circulating relevant consumer tech intelligence, including news stories and features, social content case studies, media lists and previous experiences
- Participate in new business brainstorms, taking an active role in supporting with research and insights
For our agency…
- Develop your tech PR knowledge and skillset to be able to actively identify media and influencer opportunities for all teams, suggest joint pitches and float new ideas for media
- Start to learn about Harvard and Eat the Fox’s integrated client portfolio – look at how PR can work within a wider marketing context
- Through building your own connections with journalists and influencer, help to nurture Harvard and Eat the Fox’s excellent reputation with the media and content creators
- Take an active, positive role in our agency culture and support Harvard and Eat the Fox’s own marketing and social activity
- Participate in our training programme – Never Stop Learning
- Approach the development of your role with enthusiasm and commitment
- Contribute to a positive, inclusive culture at Harvard and Eat the Fox
What we believe in
Being…
….Social – creating strong teams that know how to work together
…Curious – curiosity leads to continuous questioning and learning
…Open – open minds lead to better ideas and relationships
….Responsible – aiming to be a force for good in the way we do business
…Entrepreneurial – everyone behaving as if it was their own business
…Expert – passionate about being a specialist
What we promise you
At Harvard and Eat the Fox 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 and Eat the Fox
- 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
Are you ready to make your move?
Our people are our superpower – we exist to enable every single one to reach their potential. We know we can only achieve that by creating and maintaining an environment where anyone, from any background feels safe, inspired and encouraged to thrive. That is our People First Promise.
We provide all the benefits you’d expect – profit-related pay, up to 5% matched pension, private medical insurance, discounted gym membership and structured training to help you develop and progress your career. As well as a few that are a little special such as; industry leading gender neutral parental leave, full access to the mindfulness app Calm and a monthly pizza on us, to name a few!
