Media Relations Manager – Marketing Agency (HOME BASED)

£35,000 per annum (Temp to Perm Position)

Home / Remote Based (with occasional office visits for team meetings in Berkshire)

Techniche Global are supporting a large multisector Marketing Agency with appointing a Media Relations Manager. This role can interview and appoint immediately, with a work from home/remote work setup until lockdown restrictions lift and safe office working can resume.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Comms/PR/Marketeer to focus primarily on Media & Public Relations in busy emerging sectors such as Technology, Telecoms, Computer Software, and IT Services. This will cover both UK & US clients.

With a laid back & empowering management style this agency has an envious reputation within B2B Technology. A positive ethos and proactive, fun, friendly team make this an attractive opportunity!

The Role & The Person:

The candidate we’re looking for will be a self-starter, with experience of working in media relations, either in journalism or PR. The candidate will be working across a number of our comms accounts, under the direction of the Account Director, and will be responsible for finding engaging ways to share the stories and developments of our (largely tech-based) clients.

This role demands strong attention to detail and organizational skills, and the candidate must have experience balancing a number of project requirements at any one time. In addition, excellent interpersonal skills are key to the success of this role.

Key responsibilities will include:

Developing and delivering proactive and reactive media handling strategies via a variety of media channels
Building and maintaining relationships across the business to help inform media engagement
Providing timely, accurate and appropriate responses to enquiries from international, national and regional broadcast, online and print media
Planning, compiling and distributing engaging material to generate positive media coverage
Press release and outreach management, including any associated follow up
Monitoring our media coverage and providing regular reporting

Required Skills & Experience:

To be considered for this role potential candidates must have a minimum of three years’ agency experience and must be able to demonstrate how they have built and developed relationships with journalists and / or provided strategic media handling advice to colleagues across the business.

A minimum of 3 years Agency experience (marketing agency, PR agency etc)
Experience in building and developing relationships with journalists, media and press contacts
Ability and knowledge to provide strategic media handling advice to clients
Exceptional writing, editing and verbal skills
Experience of developing and delivering impactful coverage through a range of communication channels
Ability to plan, deliver and evaluate work in order to improve current and future campaigns
The ability to manage media relations across multiple projects of varying scope and size

Media Relations Manager - Marketing Agency (HOME BASED)