Overview

This highly successful agency boasting an impressive list of clients, from household brands to ambitious start-ups, is looking for a corporate generalist who is comfortable working across retail, leisure, FMCG, food and drink and e-commerce. They have recently launched their ESG consulting offering, which has been well received, meaning there are more opportunities to work on sustainability-related briefs. It’s a great move if you want to join an agency that has a strong integrated offering and truly invests in great talent.

The Company

This very stable agency is thriving despite the global pandemic. They have been advising at the leading edge of the healthcare sector’s COVID-19 response, have helped companies raise essential funding to ensure resilience through the crisis, advised on one of the UK’s largest ever stock market flotations which successfully came to the market in volatile conditions and they are busy across a number of M&A situations including the largest transaction so far this year.

Whilst there are distinctive industry sectors of expertise within the agency, there is only one P&L across the business to encourage practise areas to work together and share clients. It is an extremely exciting time for the business and there are development and growth plans at a time when many competitors are being conservative. They have the scope to invest in great talent and are able to develop great practitioners at speed.

The Role

Key challenges and opportunities in this Corporate PR Director role:

• You will be proactive and driven – you will create and deliver exciting campaigns
• You will advise a range of companies from different sectors including retail, leisure, FMCG, food and drink and e-commerce
• You will be strategic, a natural problem solver but able to work with others successfully as campaigns are integrated and you will be working closely with your financial and public affairs colleagues.
• When it comes to new business, you will want to get involved and be a proven convertor

The Person

Key attributes and experience for this Corporate PR Director role:

• It is likely that you are working as a Corporate Director advising consumer facing companies
• Be flexible and have expertise in a minimum of two industry sectors as it’s likely that you will be advising across a number
• Sector expertise of most interest include technology, consumer (FMCG), and consumer healthcare
• Must be a good operator at a strategic level and enjoy a consultative approach
• Be a confident media relations adviser
• Credible, self-starter and naturally driven

To be considered for this Corporate PR Director role please click to apply.

For more details on this role, and similar roles, contact Canace Wong on 07917 875 669 or canace@the-works.co.uk