PR Senior Account Director

We are seeking a PR Senior Account Director (SAD) to lead integrated communications strategies across our portfolio of travel and tourism clients. You’ll bring a proven track record as an Account Director with travel experience, creative leadership and strategic oversight to drive growth, build strong client relationships and foster media relations.

This is an opportunity for an established SAD or high-performing AD ready to step up, lead bigger accounts and shape the agency’s travel offering at the senior level. As a PR Senior Account Director, you will oversee a team working across multiple accounts, ensuring the successful implementation of PR plans and strategy.

At MMGY Global, we believe nothing shapes your view of the world like travel. So every day, we share our client’s stories from a perspective that inspires people to see the world differently. Our personalised service and strategy connect media, consumers, and influencers across the globe, taking people to new places and changing their view for the better. At MMGY we inspire people to go places.

As PR Senior Account Director, you’ll lead a team of talented communicators delivering integrated, high-impact campaigns. You’ll be a trusted advisor to clients, develop strategic plans, oversee flawless execution, and guide proactive media relations efforts, all while nurturing a passionate, high-performing team.

Duties include:

• Create annual PR plans for clients, thinking strategically and brainstorming ideas for clients together with their team.
• Lead pro-active story pitching at editor level and creating key opportunities for “glory” coverage for your clients, supported by your team.
• Pull together the scope of works for projects, campaigns, activations and key client activities.
• Plan and manage client press trips, FAMs, activations, and crisis communications.
• Contribute to new business pitches and help evolve our travel PR offering.
• Oversee team workflow, mentoring junior staff and ensuring campaign excellence.

What you bring:

• 7+ years of PR experience, including 2+ years in a senior leadership role.
• Proven track record in travel, tourism, or lifestyle PR.
• Exceptional media contacts and storytelling instincts.
• A creative and strategic mindset with strong leadership skills.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication abilities.
• Confidence in budget management, campaign delivery, and team development.
• A passion for travel and the power it has to change perspectives.

Our industry-leading benefits:

• A flexible hybrid work schedule
• Generous annual holiday package including 25 days of annual leave, 3 personal days and year-end holiday break.
• Private medical, life and income protection insurance and pension scheme contribution from the company.
• Lively social calendar with numerous activities and events to take part in.
• Weekly fresh fruit deliveries.
• Dog friendly office.
• Cycle to work scheme/Season Ticket Loan.
• Work from anywhere / work from any office benefits.

Who Are We? We’re a travel-obsessed collective of more than 600 people across the country and around the globe. And when we say we inspire people to go places, we mean ALL people. That’s why we’re focused on nurturing a workforce that is representative of the places we visit.