We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior PR Strategist to join our UK PR Department either in our Manchester or Leeds office.

As a Senior PR Strategist, you’ll be working with global household brands across the travel, finance and lifestyle sectors whilst having the opportunity to work alongside the senior team to grow and develop the PR department including our team and clients. You’ll also have access to our training budget to help grow and develop your career and the opportunity to get involved with marketing and events if this is of interest to you.

Core Role & Responsibilities:

• Lead clients' strategies ensuring they are within budget, aligned with the brand, their sector, and their audience and meet organic objectives and KPIs.
  
  
• Seek and implement new processes, tools and ways of working within the department to contribute to team growth and upskilling.
  
  
• Support the management team to provide and organise internal and external training for the PR department to further skill sets.
  
  
• Direct line management including conducting 121s, performance reviews and goal setting of individuals within your team, ensuring you’re coaching and developing them to progress within their role.
  
  
• Contribution to wider department marketing including social and vlog content, event and conference attendance.

Requirements:

• Minimum of two years of Digital PR experience, preferably agency side.
  
  
• Experience managing a small team including conducting 121s, performance reviews and setting goals.
  
  
• Extensive knowledge and confidence in building client strategies across different sectors, preferably across the UK market.
  
  

• In-depth understanding of Digital PR and SEO best practices.
  
  
• Confident use of PR and SEO tools such as ahrefs, BuzzStream, BuzzSumo, Search Console and GA to name a few. If you have experience using social listening tools too, even better!
  
  
• Massive team player with a can-do, what-’s-next attitude – we want someone who goes out of their way to support their team, isn’t afraid to suggest new, bold ideas and is always striving for more.

Why join C3?

We have a vision of creating a ‘1000 person A team’. Our clients want to work with the best and we want to be the best. We believe our approach to growth creates unlimited opportunities for our business, but more importantly unlimited opportunities for our employees. We’ve created a culture of continuous learning and innovation focused on bringing the best out of our team and in turn providing the best results for our clients. This includes our company mentor scheme, monthly innovation days and yearly team training budgets. The success of our approach is evidenced by our client retention rate, pitch success rate and employee retention rate. If you are striving for professional growth, are naturally collaborative and are an expert at what you do, come join the Connective3 team!

Benefits

Connective3 is a creative, fast-paced, and rewarding environment. We offer much more than just the normal ‘agency perks’. We offer you a commitment to help nurture and develop your career aspirations. From industry-leading training, conference attendance, and collaboration with different digital teams and skill sets, we ensure you always learn and grow. We also offer:

• Hybrid and flexible working
• Weekly fresh fruit
• Yearly volunteering programme
• Regular company socials
• Birthday holiday
• Private medical insurance
• Company-funded wellness access and counselling
• Access to Perkbox rewards
• Wellness days off
• Work from anywhere in the world for 6 months in the year
• Early finish Fridays

…And much more!

Connective3 is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, colour, sex, religion or belief, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, illness or any other protected characteristic.

We are not partnered with any recruiters for this role. If you would like to be considered, please apply directly with us.