SALARY – £65,000
Who you are
Are you a leader, both for clients and for account teams? We’re looking for a talented Associate Director to join our thriving PR team.
With a focus on providing strategic counsel to clients and nurturing direct reports, you are the big picture thinker for your portfolio of accounts and the account teams.
You are….
…trusted advisor to our clients
…guide to our account teams
…advocate to our business
…proactive ideas generator between client and creative, design, editorial, planning or production
…expert in PR and marketing
You are the senior leader who helps push our clients to think bigger and better, producing best-in-class strategic, creative and often integrated marketing and PR work. Across the agency, you are one of our go-to experts on best practice PR strategy.
What you do
For our clients…
- Be a trusted, consultative advisor to your clients – proactively checking in with them regularly to provide senior counsel
- Drive the quarterly planning of work and set the strategy across your accounts, handling resource needs and ensuring smooth delegation across the team
- Lead and manage a portfolio of clients, with responsibility for the smooth running of the accounts and uncovering ways to go above and beyond
- Liaise with clients 1:1, understand their broader responsibilities, provide consultancy, develop strong relationships, and identify client development opportunities
- Responsibility for client finances and actively retaining and growing existing clients: providing pipeline and revenue updates, drafting proposals, and proactively developing and pursuing growth plans
- Lead and develop the strategy and sign off scopes of work for client accounts
- Overseeing team activity and ensuring a high standard of work by supporting junior team where needed
- Engage and actively add to our full service offering where appropriate to ensure our clients are receiving a best-in-class experience
- Focus on new business and growth opportunities with the aim of producing award-winning work
For our team…
- Be a day-to-day lead in your division – visible, vocal and in touch with absolutely everyone on the team to ensure you can manage them
- Oversee team capacity and plan resource to produce best-in-class work for clients
- 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 creative, editorial and planning to be involved wherever needed
- Be a leading player in updating and improving working practices alongside director / team lead
For our agency…
- Be a trusted and established senior leader in the agency
- Use your PR & marketing knowledge and skillset to actively suggest new ideas and grow Harvard’s integrated client portfolio
- Identify, develop and lead PR-led new business opportunities
- 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
- Help develop and deliver our training programme – Never Stop Learning
- Approach the development of your role with enthusiasm and commitment
- Work with the PR Leadership team to create a positive, inclusive culture at Harvard
Who we are
We are 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. Marketing services is a key area of growth for the agency: covering everything from creative campaigns and brand development through to social media, events, influencers and content marketing.
What we believe in
Harvard’s values are fundamental to helping ensure we operate in a high performing manner, remain people-first, and crucially 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
