Job Description

Great opportunity to join a team of 50 people at an award-winning PR and Digital agency, Clarion Communications, based in Southwark, London 

Clarion Communications is a Top 100 full-service, WPP PR & Digital agency with offices in the heart of London and Glasgow, working with some of the UK’s most popular brands including Aldi, Unilever, Wilkinson Sword, Tate & Lyle, Border Biscuits, Quintessential Brands and Wickes amongst many others.

This particular role will be to work across a portfolio of hugely successful Consumer PR accounts – Aldi, plus potentially another Consumer PR account.

Aldi is Clarion’s largest client and we work across Aldi Food plus possibly one or more of: Aldi’s Beers, Wines and Spirits, Specialbuys categories, Health & Beauty, Mother & Baby or Petcare.

Aldi Projects is an exciting part of the programme – ad hoc campaigns created to generate additional news – eg Aldi’s Champagne Bar just before Christmas or the Sprouts campaign – both fabulous examples of Aldi Projects.

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Headline Responsibilities

• You’ll be part of an incredibly fast paced and dynamic team
• You’ll be working on creative news stories, experiential activity and a busy press office
• Potentially working across food & drink, health & beauty, petcare, and food – so you’ll be targeting consumers across all sectors
• You’ll be overseeing the Influencer Gifting Activity (working with Clarion’s Digital team)
• Oversee day-to-day activity of the Junior PR team

 Desired Skills and Experience

• Min 4 years’ PR experience
• Energy, creativity, strategic thinking and great organisational skills
• Excellent working knowledge of national and consumer media, track record in generating news angles and achieving stand out coverage for big brands
• Ability to create concepts and strategies for engaging social media campaigns
• Strong team leadership and motivational skills
• A proven track record of managing teams
• FMCG/Retail experience
• Knowledge about and/or an interest in wine/drinks would be a plus but not essential
• Experience handling big budget clients
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The Perks

• Hybrid working (2 days in the office each week or more if preferred)
• Flexible working hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays
• Weekly happiness audit
• 4pm finish on Fridays
• Free monthly onsite massage
• £250 yearly ‘Clarion anniversary thank you’
• Local gyms discount
• Mental Health Allies
• Thursday afternoon drinks
• Rooftop bar and restaurant
• Staff recognition / voucher awards at monthly staff meetings
• Numerous perks being based at Rose Court incl weekly running club, puppy wellbeing workshops, yoga workshops, nail bar and so much more
• Extension of Clarion’s Mindfulness Hour… http://clarioncomms.co.uk/news/clarion-mindfulness-month.html

Location

Clarion is now based in Southwark on a WPP ‘campus’ location, part a hub of Ad, Digital and PR agencies with river views and rooftop bar!

The Package

As well as a competitive salary depending on experience (£30k-£35k), you will receive many other great benefits working with Clarion. Owned by WPP, our benefits include contributory pension scheme, life assurance, private healthcare, 22+ days holiday (plus a day off for your birthday), seasonal shutdown between Christmas and New Year and a multitude of WPP discounts across hundreds of brands including Apple, Majestic and Ford.

In addition, personal development programs include a mentoring scheme for all employees as well as the Clarion Academy training, a newly introduced initiative – reverse mentoring and 360 personal reviews.

We’ve also partnered with Lifework’s, the UK’s leading Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) provider to bring all our staff access to their Lifestyle platform. They not only provide traditional EAP support such as chat support and counselling via the phone 24/7/365, but their website and app also provide a huge amount of educational material on topics such as family, health and money.

Additional Information

Recruitment Policy

All employment decisions must reflect our (WPP’s) Human Rights Policy Statement. We respect the human rights of all employees, including permanent, temporary and contract workers. We select and promote our people on the basis of their qualifications and merit, encouraging diversity. We expect all employees to be treated without discrimination or concern for factors such as race, religion, national origin, colour, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age or disability. We seek to provide safe workplaces. We recognise the rights of our employees to freedom of association and collective bargaining. We will not tolerate harassment or any form of forced, compulsory or child labour.

Clarion Communications is committed to enabling working parents to balance their work and family commitments.

Diversity & Equality Mission Statement

Diversity is a strength.

Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective are proven to be better companies. This belief is at the heart of who we want to be.

We invest in training, consult with communities and clients and constantly review our creative approach to ensure diversity and equality is a part of our DNA. We also utilise WPP training resources, tackling subjects such as unconscious bias, cultural awareness and gender equality to ensure that every one of our employees is an ally.

However, we know that good intentions are not enough and that there’s always more work to be done. Clarion’s Diversity & Inclusion council meet regularly to ensure that we’re always striving to make meaningful progress.

Our ultimate aim is to work towards achieving a workforce that is truly representative of the diverse makeup and culture of the melting-pot that is the UK.

 To do this, we’re doing the following:

• Publishing a yearly transparency report on our approach to diversity and inclusion
• Partnering with BAME-specific recruitment networks to ensure greater reach and visibility when vacancies become available
• Revising recruitment policy to include nameless CVs
• Partnering with graduate schemes to provide mentoring to BAME candidates to encourage their entry into marketing and PR
• Working with external experts to audit and improve our approaches to diversity, equality and inclusion within our office.

How to Apply

Job Categories: Equal Opportunities. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: account manager, Consumer PR, and pr. Salaries: Not Disclosed.

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