Account Manager - Consumer PR

Agency:

Golin Ketchum

Job Function:

Account Management and Growth

Job Subfunction:

Account Management

Job Description:

About The Role

We are looking for an Account Manager with consumer brand PR experience to join our stellar and ambitious team, creating unmissable campaigns that earn attention, awards and plaudits among consumer and the PR industry.

You will bring strong consumer brand experience, excellent media relationships, and a passion for culture and storytelling. Confident leading integrated campaigns, you will have experience delivering events, influencer partnerships, talent activations, and creative earned media campaigns, alongside exceptional project management skills.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on two iconic consumer brands, helping to develop and execute award-winning creative campaigns and earned media strategies that drive impact, influence culture, and deliver measurable business results. If you're looking to take the next step in your career at an agency that values bold thinking, collaboration, and creativity, we'd love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

• Establish strong relationships with client decision makers to understand their priorities and state of their business; use that knowledge to provide them with strategic recommendations
• Support the day to day client lead in the development of strategic and tactical plans
• Keep a keen eye on how evolving plans and priorities impact client campaigns including creative assets, copy and promotion timings
• Day to day management of junior team members
• Drive the creation and ongoing plans to achieve our clients’ vision
• Work closely with creative teams to ensure creative is built in to take full advantage of integrated campaigns
• Keep teams apprised of relevant trends and opportunities that can add value to our clients and to our team
• Maintain close relationships with journalists and leverage those relationships for unique client opportunities
• Demonstrate a clear understanding of the nuances of your clients and how best to meet their needs and objectives
• Assist with managing account finances

What Are We Looking For

• Previous experience at Senior Account Executive/Account Manager level in consumer PR / communications in an agency setting
• A strategic thinker, manager and collaborator
• Experience managing team members
• Comfortable leading multiple projects simultaneously
• Media savvy with media contacts to ensure we generate standout coverage
• Excellent written skills for press and media facing materials
• A team member who contributes to an inclusive culture and role models inclusive behaviours

About Golin Ketchum

Golin Ketchum is the most awarded public relations agency of the decade. We create change that matters for our clients and our people. The kind of change that earns attention and shapes culture to build business. Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence, fueled by Omnicom’s industry-leading data and AI solutions, to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies.

At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.

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