Account Executive/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 Account Executive/SAE 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).
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 a supporting member of 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
- Execute PR and media relations strategic plans and assist with managing client accounts and projects
- Develop targeted media lists, conduct media audits, identify and research media placement opportunities, and create and manage editorial calendars
- 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
- Organize all client documents, deliverables, folders, and materials
We train our team to help them succeed, and everyone on our team helps with our success. In this role, you’ll be accountable to hit the following numbers each week:
- 90% on-time delivery of client projects
- 75% utilization rate among team
If you want to come to work, learn, and hit those numbers, you’ll be recognized and rewarded.
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 (will consider internship experience
- 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. No resumes will be considered without the completion of applicant survey.
The firestarters of fuoco
fuoco is a Nashville-based, national healthcare B2B marketing and media specialist agency whose passion is doing work that’s meaningful for our clients, our employees, and our communities. We are hell-bent on delivering an exceptional client experience with exceptional results. We bring unparalleled healthcare B2B knowledge, sophistication and strategic thinking.
We all work together to help build a results-driven specialty agency with $10M in revenue fueled by clients who value our expertise in strategy, storytelling and content development.
We specialize in helping healthcare B2B brands tell their stories, our sweet spot. If you want to belong to a team that does that well every day, this company’s a great fit for you.
Our clients are healthcare CMOs, VPs, and Directors of Marketing, Communications, Sales and Growth. If you have experience working with these types of clients, this role will be a great fit.
Our company runs on EOS purely. That means as a member of this team, you will have a leader who:
- Gives clear directions
- Makes sure you have the necessary tools
- Acts with the greater good in mind
- Delegates appropriately
- Takes time to truly understand your role and how you can help the company
- Makes their expectations clear
- Communicates well
- Has effective meetings
- Meets one-on-one with you quarterly or more, if needed
- Rewards and recognizes your performance
This also means that, as a member of this team, you will also embody these characteristics.
Position details: Full time exempt
Location: Hybrid role – remote with some travel to Nashville office (onboarding + quarterly meeting) and client meetings (as needed)
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.