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Personal Specifications

We are looking for a full time Account Manager with strong public relations experience who is outgoing, driven, committed and enthusiastic. This is an opportunity for a passionate and ambitious professional to make their mark, become a mid-level leadership figure in the business and help in keeping a firm hand on the tiller as we grow. A good understanding of the UK media, PR strategy and methodology is essential. The ideal candidate will have a personal passion for the creative industries.

Role Overview

To contribute to TDC PR’s continued success by becoming a mid-level leadership figure in the business, split primarily across client account management and management of junior team members, with room for assistance with strategic business development. This role will report into TDC PR’s senior team, working together to co-manage our roster of clients and ensure the continued delivery of work in line with the high standards and personal, collaborative approach TDC PR has prided itself on from day one. The day-to-day will include:

• Managing a portfolio of clients with the support and oversight of the senior team
• Providing strategic counsel to clients to aid their PR and wider marketing campaigns
• Providing commentators and product or company information to the media (newspapers, magazines, radio, television and online news sites)
• Building relationships with existing and new clients
• Building relationships with key media contacts
• Liaising with clients regarding press campaigns, creative projects and PR solutions
• Dealing with the media, speaking to journalists and other members of the press
• Providing innovative and creative ideas to clients
• Briefing clients and updating them on press campaigns
• Analysing PR coverage and providing written reports
• Communicating effectively with a range of stakeholders

Key Responsibilities

• Daily point of contact with key media contact
• Developing industry, sector and product focused PR campaigns
• Managing the needs of the client and their accounts
• Contributing to daily meetings, and liaising and updating clients on PR activities
• Keeping abreast of current PR trends and tools
• Building client relationships and maintaining a network of media contacts including journalists and industry spokespeople
• Spearheading both traditional PR and social media projects
• Developing news angles, stories and pitches to further the client’s profile, products and services.
• Fulfilling the client’s key performance indicators and growing accounts
• Being involved in pitching for new business and developing PR proposals
• Managing a high level of client interactions
• Managing and mentoring junior members of staff

Key Skills and Experience

• The ideal candidate will have a minimum of three years’ experience in an in–house or agency PR role, ideally relating or connected to the sectors outlined above.
• High levels of communication – both presentation, verbal and written skills
• Impressive emotional intelligence and interpersonal expertise
• A passion for the media, including social media
• Flair for creativity, strategic thinking and innovation
• Strong copywriting and marketing mastery
• Commercially aware and business savvy
• Good industry knowledge and experience in building influential networks
• Solid computer prowess and project management skills
• Outstanding organisation with an ability to manage multiple projects
• Service focused and sensitive to confidential information
• A self-starter dedicated to growth and results
• Energetic, inspiring and self-motivated team player.
• Patient and committed when managing/mentoring junior team members
• Extremely well organised with a great attention to detail
• Resourceful, intuitive and inventive problem solver

If you would like to apply for this role, please send us an email with your CV to [email protected].

Personal Specifications

We are looking for a full time Senior Account Manager with strong public relations experience who is outgoing, driven, committed and enthusiastic. This is an opportunity for a passionate and ambitious professional to make their mark, become a significant leadership
figure in the business and help in keeping a firm hand on the tiller as we grow.

A good understanding of the UK media, PR strategy and methodology is essential.

The ideal candidate will have a personal passion for the creative industries and a minimum of five years experience in an in–house or agency PR role, ideally relating or connected to the sector’s core to the TDC business.

Role Overview

The senior account manager (SAM) plays a critical role within the account team, requiring the ability to think both professionally and proactively across all elements of the job: from client handling and self-education about the sectors in which the client(s) operate; practically – from time management, future planning and account fee structures; creatively – from campaign ideation to execution; and strategically – proactively identifying and using tools and approaches to achieve and exceed personal, company and account objectives.

As an experienced member of the team supporting the Account Directors and management team, the SAM will often be the main day-to-day point of contact for clients, ensuring the smooth running of the account(s) and leading by example to junior members. It is an opportunity to hone and refine management and mentorship skills over junior members and reinforce skills for strategic thinking and client counselling. The SAM’s job is to build strong client relationships and co-ordinate with internal teams to deliver on and exceed the clients’ objectives. They will demonstrate good business thinking and identify new opportunities in which to grow accounts.

When identifying and presenting challenges and issues, the SAM will simultaneously consider solutions to the presenting problem. To excel in this role, SAMs must be tenacious, results-driven, highly organised, display creativity and sound problem solving skills, and can work calmly and productively under pressure. They are persuasive communicators and negotiators and can inspire a junior team.

Specific to this role at TDC, the SAM will be personally motivated by the design, innovation and creative industries world, and – throughout their career – will proactively take continuous measures to enhance their understanding and learning of this sector in order to help inform their creative and strategic thinking.

Account Responsibilities

• Consistently developing and nurturing media relationships with key press across print, online and broadcast channels
• Pro-actively monitoring the media landscape (newspapers, magazine, journals, newswires, blogs and social media) for PR opportunities for clients, and acting as
• the front-line radar for identifying and responding to these time-sensitive opportunities. Also, actively presenting PR opportunities to clients for results based activities
• Studiously learning the media landscapes and media universes of each client, overseeing the building-up and maintaining of media lists, as well as the planning of pitches with forward features and the creation of editorial calendars
• Communicating and co-ordinating with internal teams to ensure the smooth running of accounts
• Leading on promoting / ‘selling in’ news stories and features to the media

Company Responsibilities

• Mentor and support junior team members
• Accountability and management of multiple accounts
• Daily news monitoring
• Researching and identifying new business opportunities
• Developing and implementing strategic plans to manage and grow accounts
• Assist in developing new business proposals and participating in new business
  pitches
• Support senior team members at industry and client events wherever necessary

Key Skills and Experience

• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Resilient and unflappable under pressure
• Highly organised and adept in all time management and organisational activities of
  account teams, and able to prioritise
• Thorough understanding of clients’ business and their market
• Excellent client handling skills
• Enhanced people skills – able to adapt and liaise professionally and engagingly with
  a range of personalities, both internally and externally
• Excellent skills in persuasion and negotiation
• Self-motivated and incredibly driven
• Excellent presentation skills
• Detail oriented
• Resourceful, intuitive and inventive problem solver
• Awareness of the ‘bigger picture’ – both client-based and corporately
• A naturally analytical mind – keen to evaluate impact and efficacy of PR
• A considerate, empathetic, self-aware and collaborative team member who
  contributes positively to the work culture

Career Path

To progress to Account Director position, the SAM must consistently achieve and exceed objectives based on the above activities for a portfolio of clients, as well as for the wider company, as agreed with the AD and Director.

If you would like to apply for this role, please send us an email with your CV to [email protected].

Personal Specifications

We are looking for a smart, switched-on, outgoing, driven, committed and enthusiastic PR professional with proven nous and flair to join the team as a full-time employee. This is an opportunity for a passionate and ambitious professional to develop their career, make their mark and become a core part of the TDC team at this exciting stage of growth and development for the business.

A solid grounding in UK media, PR strategy and methodology is essential.

The ideal candidate will have a personal passion for design and the creative industries and a minimum of 2 years experience in an in–house or agency PR role, ideally relating or connected to the sector’s core to the TDC business. The candidate will also have a good understanding of the digital media landscape, and how digital channels play a role in the overall communication strategy.

Role Overview

The senior account executive (SAE) plays an important supporting role to the accounts team, typically comprising an account executive (AE), Senior Account Manager (SAM), and director. The SAE will typically work across a number of different accounts, enabling the skills acquired at AE level to be further developed and reinforced. Supporting and directly reporting to the AM or SAM, the SAE is responsible for ensuring the implementation of day-to-day activities and thinking about how activity on the account ladders up to overall client objectives.

Right at the frontline of media relations, the SAE is also adept at selling-in stories to reporters and editors, leveraging the relationships they have with core press and demonstrating a clear understanding of the media landscape. Consequently, they are a core identifier of proactive and reactive PR opportunities, thinking strategically about how these fit into the scope of the account and wider workflow of the team. This requires a deep understanding of each client’s offering, what they can say, and how developments in their sector affect them. In addition, they are creative thinkers, and enjoy developing out-of-the-box ways to impress clients and secure coverage. The role is also an opportunity to begin to demonstrate management and planning skills that would be required to progress to AM level, as well as building on existing mentorship skills over junior members of the team, such as AEs and JAEs. An SAE will have a natural willingness to learn and a desire to make PR not just a job but a career. In the SAE role, they must be able to understand the ‘bigger picture’ and the intrinsic role they play in delivering on the client’s objectives, beyond just securing coverage. To progress to AM, the SAE must not only be results-driven, but also keenly focused on client service. In addition to showing evidence of strategic thinking and client counselling skills, they will have a clear understanding of how account processes should run (i.e., highlight emails, coverage books, monthly reports) and how activity should be presented to
clients over email, calls or face-to-face. Specific to this role at TDC, the SAE will be personally motivated by the design, innovation and creative industries world, and – throughout their career – will proactively take continuous measures to enhance their understanding and learning of this sector in order to help inform their creative and strategic thinking.

Account responsibilities:

• Pro-actively monitoring the media landscape (newspapers, magazine, journals, newswires, blogs and social media) for PR opportunities for clients, and acting as the front-line filter for how clients should and can respond
• Understanding and contributing to forward planning, including proactively monitoring for forward features and identifying ‘newsjacking’ moments in advance
• Continuing to develop and nurture media relationships with key press across print, online and broadcast channels, with an increasing focus on ‘tier one’ media (this will be specific to each client)
• Contributing to thought leadership and campaign development which ladders up to each client’s objectives
• Ensuring the client receives timely and accurate reports, status updates and actively providing strategic counsel and insight in client meetings and conference calls
• Research, writing and distributing press releases and other written collateral to target media
• Promoting / ‘selling in’ news stories and features to the media
• Assisting in collating, analysing and evaluating media coverage
• Assisting with digital channel audits and content creation support
• Supporting the AM, SAM and AD in account evaluation and growth

Company responsibilities:

• Daily news monitoring
• General administration duties
• Mentor and support junior team members (e.g., AE, JAE, interns)
• Accountability and management of part or all of an account
• Being an indispensable source of support to the wider TDC team
• Continuously developing and honing core pitching, writing and selling-in skills
• Support senior team members at industry and client events wherever necessary
• Assist in researching and identifying new business opportunities
• Assist in developing new business proposals and participating in new business pitches
• Supporting with writing and sourcing social media content for TDC channels

Key Skills:

• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Resilient and unflappable under pressure
• Excellent organisation skills
• A sound understanding of clients’ business and their markets and a willingness to build on this knowledge on an ongoing basis
• Excellent people skills – able to adapt and liaise professionally and engagingly with a range of personalities, both internally and externally
• Self-motivated and incredibly driven
• Good presentation skills, which can be built on
• Resourceful thinker
• Awareness of the ‘bigger picture’ – both client-based and corporately
• A naturally analytical mind – keen to evaluate impact and efficacy of PRA considerate and collaborative team member who contributes positively to the work culture
• A good understanding of the digital media landscape, digital reporting and can demonstrate how digital contributes to the overall success of a communications campaign
• A keen interest for the sectors we operate in – design, innovation, architecture, creative agencies and similar

Career Path:

To progress to an Account Manager position, the SAE must consistently achieve and
exceed objectives based on the above activities for a portfolio of clients, as well as for the
wider company, as agreed with the SAM and AD.

If you would like to apply for this role, please send us an email with your CV to [email protected]

Personal Specifications

Founded in 2013, TDC is an international communications consultancy working with clients focused on designing and shaping tomorrow’s world. Considered the ‘go-to’ by media across design, innovation, creative and technology, we specialise in working with a mix of creative agencies, businesses, brands and industry bodies. In light of recent times, never before has there been such focus on these dynamic sectors and their impact on the planet. As a business, we’ve also never been closer to the heart of conversations around some of the biggest challenges of our age.

TDC’s team, which is headquartered in London and based in the UK, Europe, and the US, includes writers, former journalists, thought leadership specialists, and industry communications professionals. We provide a critical blend of insider knowledge with PR, digital and communications expertise.

Our diverse clients include Lexus, Seymourpowell, Panasonic Design, FutureBrand, UXUS, Fedrigoni, and Pearlfisher for whom we provide a wide range of communications consultancy and advice.

This is an opportunity for a passionate and ambitious Social Media Manager to support TDC’s digital growth. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in managing social media strategies and an excellent understanding of the digital landscape, digital campaigns and best practices.

Role Overview

As TDC advances into an exciting phase of growth, we seek a dynamic and proficient Social Media Manager to join our expanding digital team. In this role, you will collaborate closely with our digital team, spearheading strategic initiatives across key responsibilities including audience analysis, content creation, social media strategy, community management, analytics, and more. Your role will drive our digital communications and marketing efforts forward, ensuring alignment with overarching business objectives and client expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Spearhead the development and execution of social media strategies across key platforms including LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok.
• Lead the creation of best-in-class social media campaigns aligned with client goals and industry trends.
• Collaborate with account teams to produce social-first content that resonates with target audiences.
• Conduct social audits to evaluate the effectiveness of active media channels and optimise strategies accordingly.
• Manage social media calendars and serve as a central point of contact for digital requests.
• Crafting compelling and concise copy for social media, blogs, newsletters, and ads. Ability to write captions that drive engagement and conversions.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with influencers and content creators to enhance brand visibility and engagement.
• Create visually appealing social-first assets and the ability to edit videos for social platforms.
• Oversee the content & community management as well as publishing for social channels and websites
• Develop client content plans and collaborate with internal and external creatives to produce digital assets.
• Execute paid social media campaigns and collaborate with SEO and growth teams to optimise performance.
• Analyse website and social analytics to extract actionable insights and drive informed decision-making.
• Deliver comprehensive reports and insights to TDC’s leadership team, clients, and stakeholders.
• Ensure exceptional service delivery to current and prospective clients, maintaining consistency and alignment with company policies.

Key Skills & Experience

• Minimum 4-5 years of agency experience in digital marketing/communications roles, with a strong focus on social media strategy, content creation, and influencer engagement.
• Passion for tracking digital and social media trends and translating insights into actionable strategies.
• Proven expertise in developing and executing paid social media campaigns, including setup, monitoring, and analysis.
• Experience in marketing to both B2B and B2C audiences, with a keen understanding of audience segmentation and targeting.
• Demonstrated leadership abilities, including talent development and performance management.
• Strong visual design skills and the ability to create social-first graphics. 
• Exceptional project management skills, a strong eye for detail, and strong organisational abilities.
• Outstanding written, verbal, and presentation skills, with a strong ability to craft compelling copy and narratives.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams and client engagements.

If you would like to apply for this role, please send your resume, portfolio (including sample social media posts and graphics), and a cover letter to [email protected].