Job Description

Our client, a global award winning agency are recruiting for an Associate Director for their financial and professional services clients. Clients include private equity, hedge funds, law firms, small banks, other specialist non-bank lenders, accountancy firms and management consultancies.

Our client provide a unique level of business insight to their clients and the media, and they regularly produce pioneering research into a diverse range of topics for their clients, such as corporate finance, emerging market loans, tax investigations into High Net Worths, product recalls and insolvency.

They offer excellent career progression for their staff.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

We are seeking an experienced Associate Director with a strong PR Agency background. You will be experienced in financial & professional services PR, particularly with legal or accountancy firms.

• Have strong media contacts
• Be intellectually curious
• Numeracy and an interest in business will be crucial
• Excellent written and oral communications skills and the ability to win the confidence of senior clients.
• The right candidate will need plenty of news sense and creativity in order to take responsibility for developing our clients' media strategies.
• You will also need experience of managing and mentoring more junior team members.