Head of Pr

Role: Head of PR
Location: Huntingdon head office but the role is remote

**Salary**: £45-60k
The main indicator of your success in this position will be the effective management of the team, as well as developing internal PR workflows, processes and systems to continually improve the team's effectiveness and efficiency.
You will also provide thought leadership both internally and clients-facing to identify key opportunities for growth. You will liaise regularly directly with clients to ensure high client satisfaction. You will support our Sales org by helping ascertain thescope of work for new opportunities, as well as help price these opportunities.
Main Responsibilities:

- Develop or improve on existing internal PR workflows, processes and systems to continually improve the team's effectiveness and efficiency
- Manage the PR team to design, execute and deliver creative and successful communications plans in the UK and internationally that match or exceed expectation within public relations, communications or media outreach.
- Devise teams best suited to a client's needs and monitor an adjust performance within ongoing campaigns.
- Delegate responsibilities, manage resources to your team by effectively liaising, supporting, planning and sharing to drive success, governance and high morale.
- Create a strong work ethic within the team environment, and to assess bottlenecks and areas of availability among the team to ensure efficiency.
- Be available to team members to share experience and engage in continuing training in aspects of PR & Communications.
- Work with all team members on growth plans and conduct regular performance reviews; identifying key areas of growth, and to ensure time and training is made available to grow the individual staff members skillset, and that of the agency.
- Work with the senior management team to budget efficiently and effectively to assess, implement and deliver against agreed targets in budget and team performance.
- Advise on staffing requirements and working to maintain profitability.
- Accountable for issue management, crisis communications and managing reputational risk.
- Collaborate with other internal service teams to maximise opportunities within events, sponsorships, influencers, video/photography, social media, content, loaner pool and beyond (where applicable to client's requirements).
- Monitor the press/public's opinions on clients and client's products, suggesting and implementing strategies to increase value to the client. Manage crisis and issues.
- Communicate client strategies, performance and issues to management team.
- Manage responses to media and public enquiries, interviews with media outlets, and preparation of and distribution of press releases, assets, samples and game code.
- Develop and maintain relationships with clients.
- Develop and manage the contacts database.
Essential Skills & Experience Required:

- A resilient, proactive leader. Strong leadership, mentoring and strategic direction will be essential to your success.
- Ability to work on multiple client projects simultaneously, whilst maintaining client relations, team leadership and hitting deadlines.
- A flexible approach to change working hours and adapt to business needs, attending events onsite including evenings and weekends as required.
- A natural ability to build strong relationships with clients through your positive attitude and enthusiasm for achieving results.
- Media savvy, you will have a great understanding of current communications techniques, be an expert in producing high quality presentations and accomplished in areas of all forms of communication.
- A strategic thinker, you will be personable, extremely well organised, a strong team player and an exceptional communicator and presenter.
If you feel the above specification matches your professional background, click apply.