Celebrity PR

Do you want to gain valuable experience and make industry connections at one of the UK's leading brand agencies?

Location: Costock, near Loughborough, Leicestershire

Hours: Full time

Location: Office-Based

Champions UK plc requires a PR & Outreach Executive to schedule in-house interviews with everyone from celebrities to sportspeople. You will work closely with our Music & Entertainment and Speaking Departments to network, interview, transcribe and outreach exclusive interviews to online publications. You will also work with our social media team to craft high-quality YouTube content and develop a successful SEO/PR strategy.

Daily Tasks of a PR & Outreach Executive at Champions

• Be introduced to interviewees by the Sales Team
• Communicate with celebrities, sportspeople, businesspeople and more
• Liaise and schedule exclusive interviews, including virtual call invite/link
• Research the interviewee and write relevant interview questions
• Conduct the interview with a friendly and professional demeanour
• Share the content with the social media team
• Source and contact editors of relevant online publications to outreach the content
• Propose relevant speakers and interview questions to publications
• Transcribe the content and format the Q&A
• Write an introduction and ‘call to action’
• Liaise with senior leadership to decide backlink and anchor text
• Send the content to the publisher
• Track the published and unpublished content
• See the vital impact our outreach campaign has on our SEO performance

Experience, Qualifications & Desired Skills

Champions believes that there is more to a person than quantifiable metrics; we see value in a hard-working, friendly and confident attitude. So, if you are ready to learn, we are ready to teach you. Champions happily invests in the personal development of our employees, and we believe in the potential of transferable skills.

Below is a selection of desired experience and qualifications, but we urge you to get in touch even if you do not meet the following specific skills.

• Experience with creative writing, compiling press releases, articles and editorials
• Enthusiastic and confident personality
• Ability to communicate professionally via email and on the phone
• Confidence working with journalists and editors
• Strong attention to detail and competent proof-reader
• Work across departments with Music & Entertainment and Celebrity Keynote
• Consistently high-quality grammar and spelling
• Computer literate with Microsoft Office experience
• Degree in related disciplines
• Good written English
• Ability to work as part of a fast-paced team
• Ability to share your ideas in a team
• Experience devising content strategies and managing projects
• Knowledge of social media platforms, like YouTube

Why Choose Champions?

Champions UK plc is inviting you to join one of the UK’s leading brand agencies. We are an award-winning company that has worked with some of the biggest names in sport, film and television, business, politics and more

What makes Champions so special is our traditional family values. As a family-owned business, we pride ourselves on our enthusiastic and supportive workplace culture. You will have access to the expertise of our industry experts, top technology and our growing list of employee benefits, including professional health and wellbeing support and quarterly social outings. Our team also benefit from relevant tools, platforms, tech-products and services needed to streamline their daily tasks.

Our enviable portfolio of clients includes regional, national and international authorities on a diverse range of topics, and our network of publications is global. We continue to secure networking opportunities with famous figures across the world, and our outreach team have previously worked with:

• Sir Mo Farah CBE
• Michelle Visage
• Mike Krieger
• Dr Alex George
• Lord Seb Coe
• Jonny Wilkinson
• Sean Wallace (The Dark Destroyer)
• Sir Ranulph Fiennes
• Ade Adepitan
• Marco Pierre White
• Nicola Adams

Champions UK plc are an award-winning agency. We were handpicked by Sir Richard Branson as 57th in The Sunday Times Fast Track 100, featured as one of London Stock Exchange’s 1000 Companies to Inspire Britain, and featured in the Telegraph 1000: Britain’s Brightest Businesses.

Our company is constantly evolving to support and serve our employees. Recently, we worked with our external HR service, Breathe HR and Growth Partners, to set up professional counselling services and 24/7 GP access, the details of which are available on our Champions Speakers website under staff benefits.

Employee Benefits

• Access to our on-site gym
• Countryside location with accessible, free parking
• New start goodie bag & branded stationary
• Quarterly ‘Above & Beyond’ bonus scheme
• Increased holiday allowance after three continuous years of employment
• Opportunity to work with a friendly and dedicated team
• All expenses paid social events every quarter
• Access to industry-leading training and personal development
• Contributory pension scheme
• Birthday bottle of bubbly
• All expenses paid Christmas party with catering and entertainment

Become a Champion

If you are ready to take the next step in your career and want to unleash your creativity and innovation in an award-winning team, send your current CV and cover letter to Champions UK plc. Make sure to outline your experience and why you are the best person for this role.

Job Type: Full-time

Benefits:

• Casual dress
• Company events
• Company pension
• Employee discount
• Free parking
• Gym membership
• Health & wellbeing programme.