Pr Strategist: Blue-chip Agency

1 day ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Viv Gordon Placements Full time

**Responsibilities**:
Initiative & General Management
- Responsible for overall development of strategies and programmes based on assistance from account teams.
- Develops and guides account directors and other team members with media relations, influencer and digital/social media strategies.
- Anticipates and develops solutions to client needs and problems.
- Works with team to develop new business strategies
- Is familiar with, and supports achievement of the company’s vision and exemplifies the company’s values
- Routinely contributes to agency growth and performance as project, team, group and agency leader
- Identifies and is on the lookout for trends and new developments that will impact clients and the business of PR and comms
- Mentors and manages more junior strategists in the business
- Delegates effectively
- Routinely develops and implements solutions when problems arise
- Assists peers in problem solving
- Leverages talents of colleagues in own problem solving
- Routinely seeks and shares information with colleagues
- Develops and grows junior strategic talent
- Directs and facilitates others’ contributions to team, staff and client strategies
- Displays work ethic and values of the firm in day-to-day behaviour
- Routinely invests in building agency and client accounts and resources
- Works with senior managers to identify and address supervisory training, leadership and career development needs
- Continually seeks new ways to learn and improve and contribute.

Financial/Administrative
- Completes timesheets daily and otherwise acts in accordance with company policies and procedures
- Contributes to forecasting and projections done by more senior managers
- Helps account director meet their billability targets through creative measures
- Awareness and understanding of our contractual agreements and their impact on agency procedures.

**Requirements**:

- Relevant tertiary qualification
- 6 years’ experience working with influencers in an agency environment
- Comprehensive experience in relevant channels using influencers and partnerships to drive sales
- Depth and diversity of strategic account experience that informs public relations counsel/strategy, digital communications and influencer strategy
- Full understanding of public relations, media relations and the digital and influencer landscape
- A consistent track record of achieving public relations and digital comms objectives through outstanding and consistent strategies across a variety of accounts
- Understands business, PR and digital/social trends in the industries in which the agency operates
- Has strong presentation skills and demonstrated ability to play a leadership role in a wide range of presentation settings.

City: Johannesburg

Country: South Africa

Level of Expertise: Mid-Senior

Remuneration: Negotiable

Reference Number: #Tam622

**Tamara Wolpert**:
GM & Consultant

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