SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE, PR/MEDIA RELATIONS
The Position
Are you a proactive, friendly, persuasive person? Do you love to move fast and juggle several projects? Are you known for producing excellent, polished work? Do you enjoy ensuring that every client has a completely positive experience? Then, fuoco is looking for you!
The PR Sr. Account Executive is primarily responsible for the internal and external account and project management for various clients with support from multi-disciplinary teams and senior levels of management. The candidate should have strong organizational skills in project management, a passion for storytelling and in-depth writing, a love for developing relationships, and at least one year of agency experience. Preferred experience with media databases and reporting tools (Meltwater, Muck Rack, or Cision). This senior account leader cultivates meaningful client relationships while leading and nurturing teams that drive agency revenue and profitability. They adapt in any situation and capitalize on opportunities that benefit their team and the organization. This leader knows the most productive environments come when expectations are clear, accountability is measured, and work is both challenging and fun. The ideal candidate has proven account and team leadership chops, has solved big problems, and is ready to focus on the future of fuoco with us!
What we're about
Be like Dolly: Inclusive / Kind and genuine / Humble and hard working / Problem solvers /
Active contributors to the greater good
Be Curious: Invested in understanding the “why” / Firm believers that asking questions is
a sign of strength / Lifelong learners / Challengers of ideas that don’t make sense
Be Present: When we’re here, we’re here / Hold space for what’s important / Respect
each other’s time
Be Your Whole Self: Embrace the diversity of our lived experiences / Make meaningful
connections at the intersection of vulnerability and transparency / Encourage each other
in work and life
You’ll love coming to work every day if you get, want, and have the capacity to:
- Serve as the primary point of contact on the client team, building, maintaining, and
growing relationships between amazing clients and the agency - Support execution of PR/media relations projects to ensure on-time and on-
budget delivery - Maintain all client and internal documentation following established processes,
including timely reporting
The Work
- Serve as a trusted advisor to clients, offering strategic counsel, industry insights, and proactive recommendations to achieve business objects
- Execute PR and media relations strategic plans and projects
- Build relationships with key trade and relevant media outlets to secure high-value media coverage on behalf of clients
- Draft internal and client PR and media relations materials including press releases, pitches, bylines, blogs, content briefs, fact sheets, agendas, recaps, reports, newsletters, and award submissions
- Stay current on industry and media trends and monitor placements providing regular reporting and analysis for clients
- Project Management
- Maintain the organization of all client documents, assets and deliverables
- Maintain project management system for assigned clients
- Support the development of project timelines and track client deliverables and deadlines
- Account Management
- Support team in day-to-day service of client accounts
- Actively contribute to team meetings and client calls/communications
- Develop meeting agendas
- Take meeting notes for client calls including:
- Recording and or transcription
- Create meeting recaps – summary, action items and next steps
- Draft client communications
- Support account, PR & Marketing lead in weekly, monthly, quarterly reporting
- Coordinate, schedule and manage logistics for client meetings
- Stay abreast of clients’ brand/marketing, products/services, competitors, market/industry trends
The Essentials
- Experience
- BA or BS in PR/Media Relations, Journalism, Communications, Marketing or related field or equivalent work experience
- Minimum one-year experience at an agency
- Skills
- Understanding of how PR, communications, creative and media work together
- Strong interpersonal, communications and presentation skills: verbal, written
- Superior organizational and time-management skills with attention to detail
- Willingness to speak up and ask questions
- Intangibles
- Interest in working on healthcare/B2B brands
- Demonstrated poise and professionalism
- Desire to learn and grow and ask questions
- Self-starter and team player
- Sees solutions in problems
- Thrives in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
- Passion for strategy, culture, trends, impacting behavior, and inspiring others
To apply email a resume and cover letter to careers@growwithfuoco.com.
Fuoco LLC is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Fuoco LLC recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.