PR Account Executive, Brand

PR Account Executive, Brand

Edelman is a voice synonymous with trust, reimagining a future where the currency of communication is action. Our culture thrives on three promises: boldness is possibility, empathy is progress, and curiosity is momentum.

At Edelman, we understand diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) transform our colleagues, our company, our clients, and our communities. We are in relentless pursuit of an equitable and inspiring workplace that is respectful of all, reflects and represents the world in which we live, and fosters trust, collaboration and belonging.

Do you love communications and exciting brands? Are you a born storyteller who wants to work with the best brands in the world's biggest and most reputable independent agency? At Edelman, we are looking for an experienced Account Executive to join the passionate and dynamic Edelman Brand team to work on some of the industry's most coveted clients. This is an opportunity for a driven, professional team player with a passion for innovative storytelling to work on some of the biggest names in the PR/marketing world.

Thriving in a fast-paced, creative environment, in this role you will also get to work with a fun and passionate team, who drive change thinking and deliver incredible work. We want people who have ideas and convictions and aren't afraid to push the limits. While there is no "typical day" at Edelman, you will be exposed to a variety of disciplines within the company and be involved in several large, integrated client projects. You'll:

• Play a major role in creation of communications plans and goals for leading brands
• Manage multiple projects from conception to completion, by anticipating challenges and ensuring deadline adherence.
• Drive media relations including creating and leading outreach plans, message development, management of events, coordination of media familiarisation trips, effective pitching and training of spokespersons and growth of contact network
• Serve as daily client contact addressing client issues thoughtfully and effectively
• Demonstrate tactical proficiency in media relations, including creating and driving both earned and social media outreach plans
• Build relationships with third-party influencers and internal business partners to meet client needs
• Work closely with Account Managers to oversee operational performance of accounts, ensuring quality work, deadline and budget adherence
• Assist junior staff by motivating, coaching and consistently providing feedback
• Consistently produce high quality internal and external communications content.

About You:

• A minimum of two years of relevant experience in consumer and/or consumer health, communications, marketing or digital roles.
• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field from an accredited college or university.
• Be a media relations expert or be keen to develop these skills, building considered media relations plans, drafting messaging and pitch angles as well as selling to media with a focus on delivering outcomes for your clients.
• Have a passion for storytelling, be proficient in building campaigns that employ creative tactics along with traditional media and digital/social media strategies, have strong writing capabilities and be a creative thinker who isn't afraid to share ideas and opinions.
• Basic proficiency with generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) and curiosity about how AI can support and enhance modern communication practices.

About Edelman Australia:

At Edelman, we help solve our clients biggest corporate or consumer brand challenges. We do this by building trusted brands and applying 25 years of research and understanding of Trust.

We believe action earns trust; its only through meaningful and relevant actions that we can demonstrate a commitment to stakeholders that resonates and gives them reason to care and share. The information revolution has made trust the most valuable commodity in business today. Against this context, we've established capabilities through people, tools, data and technology that protect, promote and evolve our client's brands in today's environment, both inside and outside their organizations. We are a team of 65+ analysts, planners, strategists, advisors, creatives, producers, storytellers and more. Operating across 3 locations of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, we work with some of Australia's most consequential brands. We are Trusted to be Bold. This phrase underpins everything we do, running through our expertise, offerings, the way we show up, what we strive to create and how we work with you; it's in our purpose and our people, it's core to our network, It's how we build our teams and offerings and, most importantly, it's in the way we work.

Our purpose is to create a better future by building Trust between brands, people and society.

Our Values:

The Relentless Pursuit of Excellence: Bringing the best of ourselves and partners to our clients; Always takes all feedback as a constructive learning opportunity and acts upon it; enables others to thrive as part of agency life and adapts to others' styles to do so.

The Freedom to be Constantly Curious: Tenacious and thorough approach that drives creativity and growth for clients and ourselves. Pushes for creative ideas; is purposeful and enterprising in problem-solving; embraces diverse trends, skills, specialties and viewpoints.

The Courage to Do the Right Thing: Being a trusted and resilient partner for clients, colleagues and communities.

The Commitment to Positively Impact Society: Ensures work and relationships are founded on open and honest communications; listens and asks the right questions during day-to-day work; upholds creative, ethical and legal standards; Performing our work with an environmental conscience, and a sense of tolerance, fairness and equality.

Edelman is committed to creating equality and diversity in our workforce. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, nationality, disability gender or age. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.