PR Account Manager - Consumer

Red is a multi-specialist PR agency with strong consumer, corporate, technology and digital teams whose talent, creativity and passion continues to attract high profile clients. We’ve won multiple awards for our work across all key PR disciplines –150+ industry awards since we started over 31 years ago.

We are recruiting for a PR Account Manager to join our Consumer team who work with great brands across beauty, retail, travel, consumer tech, food and drinks.

This role will be working on a mixture of our wellness, retail and FMCG brands. We are therefore looking for someone knowledgeable on and connected with a wide spectrum of broadcast, print, online media contacts and social media influencers within food, lifestyle and national media.

• Driving campaigns forward and coordinating activity across your core accounts
• Effectively managing a range of coverage generating techniques
• Applying your knowledge of the news & social agenda to client campaigns and using it to generate opportunities.
• Maximising your extensive contacts list to seek out opportunities, sell‑in and land top tier coverage.
• Managing influencers and talent from negotiations to contracts to content.
• Using your creative writing skills to draft stand‑out copy that will resonate with media, influencers and owned social channels.
• Juggling multiple client and team needs
• Getting out and about across the country to festivals and events.
• Being part of huge food launches, calendar moments, and trust/fame driving activity

• A hard worker who loves the constant variety and fast pace of a career in PR
• An highly experienced Senior Account Executive or Account Manager looking for a new role on an exciting client mix.
• An excellent team player with great communication skills
• Excellent media relations within lifestyle titles, broadcast, and national news/ features writers
• Proficient in developing creative and impactful content for a variety of needs.
• You have strong agency experience working with big brands.
• Socially minded, tapping into content and social trends along with knowledge of current and up and coming talent/influencers.

• Competitive salaries benchmarked against the industry
• Generous holiday allowance plus extra days off around Christmas and the New Year
• Up to 10 weeks’ unpaid sabbatical leave (once you have 2.5 years service)
• Hybrid working:
  Tuesday to Thursday in the office, WFH on Mondays and Fridays. Plus, a Work-From-Anywhere allowance
• Active DEI Working Group celebrating Black History Month, Diwali, Pride, Ramadan, Lunar New Year, Rosh Hashanah and much much more
• Weekly personal hour to start at 10am, take a longer lunch break or finish at 4.30pm
• External mentoring via Creative Access for anyone from an under‑represented background
• Premium access to Calm and access to an Employee Assistance Programme
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Breakfast and an awesome snack box Tuesdays to Thursdays and a free bar every Wednesday and Thursday evenings.

At Red, we recognise that to deliver the best work for our clients, we need a diverse range of perspectives and experiences. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to ensuring best practice approaches to a diverse and inclusive recruitment process and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds.