ADPR PR Account Manager

At ADPR, we are experts at driving growth and creating valuable connections within the marine and active lifestyle sectors.

We’re looking for a new Account Manager that shares our enthusiasm, loves to tell stories and is hungry for results!
We have been delivering high-impact results for our clients for over 30 years. We’re proud that we have worked with some of our clients for over 20 years – it endorses the fact that we stay creative, enthusiastic, are constantly evolving and continue to deliver the highest quality results. We work with global brands like Helly Hansen, Polar Electro, and Sunsail, as well as charities such as Ferne Animal Sanctuary and the Youth Adventure Trust.

As an Account Manager, your main responsibilities will include:

• Feeding into strategic and creative campaign plans.
• Taking control of the plans to ensure that campaigns and plans are delivered, and service agreements are met.
• Managing a high level of client interaction and managing the needs of your clients.
• Managing and mentoring junior members of the team.
• Scouring the news for opportunities and creating stories that stick for our clients.
• Developing positive and long-lasting relationships with our journalist colleagues.

You can find out more about the kind of work you’ll be doing here.

Successful applicants will:

• Be an organiser extraordinaire.
• Be proactive, collaborative and creative.
• Have a great attitude and be hungry to learn.
• Love getting stuck into a project.
• Be bold and brilliant.
• Have excellent attention to detail.
• Have a passion or interest in our core sectors.

Our people are the heart of our business – a motivated and enthusiastic team creates our success. We are dedicated to career progression and development, and everyone has an annual career development budget.

Other benefits include:

• 4 weeks holiday allowance plus bank holidays, with a bonus day off on your birthday
• Additional holiday over the Christmas period while the office is closed (this usually spans across 2 weeks!).
• Flexible working hours.
• Hybrid working: a mix of working from home and from our office in Long Sutton, Somerset. Apart from our monthly in-person team meeting, everyone sets their own frequency for going into the office.
• Regular social activity.
• Annual bonus scheme.
• Individual EAP programme and MHFA training.

You need to be able to get to our office which is in a rural location, and to client venues, so a car and driving licence is essential.

£30k DOE
37.5-hour week, permanent role, hybrid working

If you would be interested in helping tell our clients’ stories and feel you have got the relevant experience for this opportunity, email your CV and cover letter to beki@adpr.co.uk.