Public Relations - Senior Manager/ Account Director (Communications agency)

A Communications agency is hiring for the profile of Public Relations - Senior Manager/ Account Director.

Location: Delhi

Experience: 7-12 years

Job Description

• Overseeing media strategy and account development
• Cultivating and maintaining relationships with media and influential professionals.
• Build and sustain relationships with 35 journalists from senior correspondents to editors in a year.
• Winning new business and ensuring not to lose any existing business | Lead new business development.
• Ensure 100 percent partner retention in the financial year
• Ensure all billings, invoices, advance, cost approval requirements, etc. are raised on time.
• Lead by example – mentor
• Outstanding interpersonal skills | Thinking beyond the team and the consultancy as a whole.
• Suggest & introduce new processes within the team (partner-focused & internal) to plug-in ongoing gaps.
• Play the role of culture upholder within the team
• .Ensure all hiring requirements are planned in advance and communicated to HR in a timely and structured manner, as per process
• Nurture talent
• Ensure 80:120 happens.
• Ability to single-handedly resolve conflicts.
• Offering crisis management and counsel to partners and extending networking opportunities
• Analyzing outcomes from communication efforts and interpreting data
• Work with everyone to instill a positive, commercially focused, and diligent culture of partner delivery in the team, playing to our mission and values
• Upsell and grow the present portfolio by 20 percent minimum.
• Overseeing smooth partner servicing and raising prompt red flags to senior leadership with strategic solutions