Corporate & Sustainability Senior Associate - Account Director

Freud Communications is a full-service PR and strategic communications agency that builds, protects, and enhances the reputations of our clients through impactful storytelling. Our team of c100 corporate and consumer consultants work on both impactful and fun initiatives for a range of FMCG, Retail, Media and Technology companies. Freud Communications is global in both outlook and delivery. Our consultants in London and New York have worked at the highest levels of business, government, media, charity and academia. We pride ourselves on our unrivalled network across the world and invite you to join us.

We’re looking for an established Senior Associate (Account Director) to work on some of our corporate accounts representing clients across a variety of industries. Clients could include the likes of Mars, EY and Formula One. Your work would involve media handling and publicity, brand positioning and thought leadership, issues and crisis management and developing programs that help our clients communicate and reach their sustainability goals. Our work ranges from national to global, and we’re keen to hear from creative, innovative professionals who want to join us and lead from the front – for our agency and for our clients.

Whether you’ve been agency or in-house, we’d like to hear from you.

Industry & Media Understanding

• Act as a source of knowledge on your clients and their sectors with a particular focus on sustainability developments that impact their work, and demonstrate that understanding in client meetings and when curating ideas
• Practice furthering your knowledge of and relationships with media and influencers that are relevant to your clients’ sectors
• cascade your findings and understanding upwards and downwards amongst your team

Client Relations

• Develop a genuine rapport with clients and establish yourself as a thoughtful advisor, demonstrating an understanding of their political, internal and budgetary constraints
• Act as your client’s day-to-day contacts – by email, phone and in meetings
• Manage client meetings and leading on your pieces of the agenda

Connectivity

• A passion to grow your network with media and influencers, clients and other industry professionals, cultivate those relationships and always consider how your connections can accelerate and elevate the work we do

Accounts and Team Management

• Taking responsibility for the smooth running of accounts – ensuring your team is fully briefed on activity, show an understanding your fellow team members’ capabilities and the client’s expectations, and supporting junior members of the team as needed
• Ensure expectations levels are set and adhered to
• Mentoring junior colleagues, identifying skills gaps and working with their line manager to help in their development  
• Ensuring your team leads and senior colleagues are always up to speed – from general developments to important successes or challenges on your accounts  

Digital  

• Embrace our Digital First culture, using and suggesting new research and comms methods that will help drive efficiency and innovation
• This extends to out-of-the-box thinking – offering up ideas that could lead to fresh solutions and original ways of doing things

Culture

We hope you’ll embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability to persevere. You’ll have a level of curiosity about the world around you and the spaces in which we operate; ask questions and offer up ideas. In addition, you’ll take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connecting with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.