Pr Manager

Our client is an independent travel company based in Trafford City who is looking for an experienced and highly creative PR & Communications professional to support and strengthen their brand reputation.

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced communications professional to think big, make an impact and implement new ideas or ways of working into a well-established and highly-driven Communications Team.

Reporting to the Global Head of PR & Communications, you’ll play a critical role in driving and managing their PR and external communications strategy, ensuring that all activity is aligned to their brand strategy and PR roadmap.

Working collaboratively with key stakeholders, you will need to be adaptable and dynamic - this role is for those willing to get stuck-in, relish being able to see the real impact of your results and regularly reporting on progress - using this as a steppingstone to take their business, and your career, to the next level.

**Key responsibilities**
- Planning & executing an external PR strategy which aligns to overall business and brand strategies
- Work closely with the recruitment marketing teams to ensure PR activity aligns to company recruitment strategy
- Working closely with the Corporate Travel team to ensure PR activity aligns to corporate travel strategy
- Proactively source and react to external media opportunities, and be highly confident in responding to the latest news agenda to further awareness and recognition for the brand
- Build on the brand’s good reputation by sustaining positive media relations with all target press contacts and publications
- Manage press release creation and distribution, proactively sourcing the post powerful stories and news hooks
- Manage the relationship with external PR agency partner, supplying timely company information to support the consumer PR function
- Liaising with overseas management and media to raise the company’s international profile
- Media monitor and regularly report on coverage achieved, defining what success looks like in strengthening the company’s profile within its target audiences

**Skills and Experience required**:

- You will have at least 5 years’ experience in managing and delivering PR and external communications campaign activity
- You will have a proven track record in delivering results from PR and wider external communications activity, and you will have a results-driven focus
- You will have experience in delivering crisis communications
- You will be an outstanding copywriter, who may be called upon to support both internal and external written communications
- You will be a self-starter and self-focused, able to work on your own, be pro-active and deliver results
- You will have demonstrable experience in PR planning, media monitoring and reporting
- You will have strong digital knowledge with proven experience of working within a digitally driven business
- You have the ability to prioritise workload against business/project requirements and key stakeholders