Account Director

1 week ago

London, United Kingdom MatchFit Sports PR Ltd Full time €57,000

WE'RE ON A MISSION TO HELP EVERYONE Love Sport THE WAY WE DO

CAREERS


WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:

We’re looking for a brilliant and creative Account Director to join our fast-growing sports communications agency. The dream candidate will be a positive and collaborative leader with outstanding communication skills, creativity, high standards and a drive to help their team shape and deliver high quality work. 

We’d love to identify an individual who specifically has a passion for several sports, isa high-class comms operator, and who is ambitious to grow with us and hungry to build their dream communications career. This person would be joining MatchFit at an incredibly exciting time of growth, with a number of soon-to-be-announced new business wins, and with the opportunity to play a highly prominent role in our agency development in coming years.

WHO WE ARE:

We are MatchFit, the communications agency with sport in our DNA. Like all great sports teams, we bring a blend of experience, skills, personalities and expertise, bonded together by a share mission. Ours? We want everyone to love sport the way we do.

We unleash the power of ‘earned-first’ storytelling in sport to make brands unmissable and supercharge rightsholders. 

- Rightsholders: The FA, Manchester City, The LTA, The EFL, GB Taekwondo

- Brands: LiveScore Group, Topps, Blast esports, Rematch, Blakely, Sportsbreaks.com  

- Talent: Growing stable of personal sports talent

Eye-catching creative. PR which cuts through. Scroll-stopping social. Influencers who do just that. FOMO creating experiential. Content which connects. Reputations protected and enhanced. Our award-winning work puts brilliant communications thinking first.

ROLE OVERVIEW:

The Account Director will play a hugely important role within MatchFit, joining the extended Management Team and leading several of our world-class clients, reporting into our Head of Clients and, at times, Co-Founders. You will also be responsible for line-managing an Account Manager and Account Executives as you further develop your future leadership and agency management credentials.

A key aspect of this specific role will be a focus on our entertainment brand clients such as LiveScore Group, which comprises the portfolio brands LiveScore, LiveScore Bet and Virgin Bet, as well as other new clients within our growing client roster following some game-changing new business wins. You will have excellent brand experience, and be comfortable working with elite talent and ambassadors across consumer campaigns, as well as an ability to navigate clients through the unique challenges of B2B campaigns. You will be empowered to play a prominent role in new business pitches, something which the whole agency contributes to.

THE SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE WILL HAVE:

- Outstanding client servicing skills

- Brilliant leadership and teamwork skills

- A desire to foster a fun but high-quality work culture

- The ability to manage and communicate well both with your team and with agency leadership

- Relish playing a prominent role in the creative process to conceive high quality work

- Comfort applying strategic thinking and building high class documents and plans

- Brilliant pitching and presentation skills

- A reputation for being a fantastic role model , leader and coach for their team 

- A natural love and enthusiasm for PR, and experience leading their team to brilliantly execute earned media campaigns

- Be able to commute to our office in Shoreditch , London

Beneficial attributes for a candidate: 

- Client experience within the sports media business sector , including broadcast, sports betting and entertainment.

- Direct experience of working on sport related clients or campaigns more broadly. (Note: We do not expect candidates to come from an agency that specialises in sport, indeed relevant consumer PR experience is every bit as valuable)

PERKS AND BENEFITS:

- MatchFit Sporting Moment: Furthering our mission ‘We Want Everyone To Love Sport As Much AsWe Do’, our people have £250 each year to spend on a unique sport experience. Recent examples include a London Marathon entry and New York Knicks tickets

- Annual profit-share scheme based on business performance

- New business bonus: Up to and including Account Director level, any employee who makes a direct introduction is entitled to a bonus, calculated as 10% of total fees received in the first 12 months of a client contract.

- 23 days holiday as standard (outside of Bank Holidays) with additional days added for each year of service, plus 1.5 weeks over the Christmas and New Year period

- 1-for-1 day-in-lieu , for any time spent out at weekend client events 

-  Hybrid working policy , with Monday and Friday designated as work-from-home days(although you are welcome in any day) 

-  Training and Development including ‘Lunch and Learn’ – our vibrant monthly internal programme – and external opportunities and courses

 
- Free team lunch on the house once each week

- Team socials every quarter, and an annual Christmas party day

- Cycle to work scheme

- Over 30,000 deals and discounts through our Charlie HR ‘Perks at Work’ platform

SALARY:

- Starting from £57k DOE.

THE PROCESS:

- Please email careers@matchfit.biz with your CV and relevant information.

- Closing date for applications: Thursday 5 th Sept
- Informal chemistry calls: w/c 9 th Sept
- First stage Zoom interviews: w/c16 th Sept
- Final stage face-to-face interview with task: w/c 23 rd Sept
- Target appointment date: Monday 30 th Sept
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