ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

ACCOUNT DIRECTOR

Account Director

About Bottle PR

Bottle is an award-winning PR agency based in Oxford specialising in digital PR, content, social media and influencer marketing. We have a broad portfolio of clients, which include brands such as Gousto, AXA Global Health, Rowse, and Medichecks. If you like variety and would enjoy working on a travel brand one day and a dog food brand the next, read on…

The role

We’re looking for an Account Director to join our awesome Comms team. Reporting to the Comms Director, as a senior lead, you will have your own client portfolio and dedicated team.

No two days are the same, but responsibilities include: 

  • leading 4-6 accounts, ensuring we are continuously hitting KPIs and demonstrating impact to each client

  • developing digital PR and social strategies which help clients meet their business goals (collaborating with our Creative and Planning team to maximise impact)

  • leading the quarterly StoryPlanning process, developing creative insight-led ideas for fame (brand awareness) and findability (search visibility)

  • designing and leading large-scale, KPI-busting campaigns from start to finish 

  • being part of a winning new business pitch team

  • managing 2-3 direct line reports, helping each one flourish and contribute to the agency’s success

About you

Bottle team members are known as Lightning Catchers. To be the next Lightning Catcher, you need to:

  • have agency experience running big fame campaigns across PR and social channels OR experience running digital PR campaigns (PR for SEO) campaigns… even better if you have both

  • be creative and intellectually curious, with a passion for brand communications in earned media

  • be a critical thinker; from dissecting a brief and developing the strategy through to analysing results and making recommendations for optimisation

  • consistently drive strong results for clients and have the foresight to change the strategy if needed   

  • thrive off team leadership and know that if your team is getting great results (and is happy doing it), then that can only reflect well on you

  • be trusted and well-liked by clients, able to influence them through well-considered counsel that builds confidence in you and your agency

  • be commercially minded and able to grow accounts YoY

  • align with Bottle’s beliefs and values

 

What we offer you 

  • Hybrid working as standard, 3 days in office in Oxford, 2 days work from anywhere (WFA) – plus flexibility on start / end times and additional days to WFA & early finish Fridays in Aug

  • 5 weeks holiday (plus birthday day off, and ‘3 for 2’ over Christmas)

  • Enhanced employer pension contribution (5%)

  • Health cash plan

  • Personal access to You Can Now training platform & Audible subscription

  • Relocation support package if you want to get closer to Oxford

  • Cycle to work & EV salary sacrifice scheme

  • All-day snacks

 

We invest in spending time together out of the office – including the infamous summer trip away. Recent trips have included Wilderness Festival, a country house in rural Wales and Morocco!

Salary

Starting at £45K D.O.E

 

Start date

ASAP