Public Relations Senior Account Executive

About us

Tin Man is an earned first, creative comms agency offering everything from brand consultancy to creative activations, media relations to social media management, content to experiential. All of our work is designed to create powerful, emotional connections between brands and audiences.

Tin Man’s ‘communications with heart’ approach has helped change behaviour, challenge perceptions, increase brand equity and enhance bottom lines for household brands including Virgin Atlantic, Cadbury, OREO, Warner Bros. Studio Tour London, Hilton, Vodafone, Dunelm, Tesco and Cafédirect.

The Role

Senior Account Execs at Tin Man are vital in bringing our award-winning creative campaigns to life: uber organised at logistics and influence outreach, tenacious in selling stories to journalists, culturally connected and super aware of what’s going on in all things media – both traditional and social. Ideal for someone with at least a year’s solid PR experience, you’ll work as part of a bigger team and be coached by our excellent account managers.

You’ll need excellent writing skills, good attention to detail and have the ability to prioritise and manage your own workload.

If you want to learn and grow in a creative, fun, supportive and well-respected comms agency, then this is the role for you.

Ultimately, we’re looking for you to be enthusiastic and proactive in:

• Speaking to the media, selling in stories we’re working on, placing products on their pages/website for reviews – and above all, have a real hunger for getting coverage
• Reading papers and websites every day, flagging relevant stories and writing short synopsis on articles
• Drafting assets including press releases, influencer briefs, website copy and more, and to ensure its as client ready as possible for senior team to review
• Keeping up to date on what’s happening across your client accounts, their products, industry, trends and relevant media/influencers – really getting to understand their business
• Managing and motivating yourself to produce high quality work and meet deadlines, and be proactive in suggesting ways to continually improve ways of working

The ideal candidate will have:

• At least 2 years experience working in a PR environment
• Excellent writing skills, with the ability to adapt writing to suit different audiences
• Great attention to detail, must be able to spot spelling mistakes or grammatical errors
• A tenacious approach to media sell-ins. You can’t be afraid of picking up the phone! And a good understanding of the media landscape from TV news and magazine programmes to national newspapers to consumer lifestyle magazines to blogs
• A good understanding of the influencer landscape and influencer marketing channels such as Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok etc.
• Good communications and interpersonal skills at every level, and a high regard for confidentiality when needed
• Great organisational skills, being able to juggle lots of different actions day-to-day across varying accounts
• Strong IT skills across Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Googledocs – we use MacBook laptops at Tin Man
• The ability to work well under pressure

Essentially, we’re looking for someone smart, organised and driven - with a proactive attitude who is not afraid to roll their sleeves up and get stuck in.

At Tin Man, we’re all about creativity, collaboration, and bringing out the best in people no matter who you are or where you’re from. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and we’re building a workplace where everyone feels they belong and can grow.

If there’s anything (like neurodiversity, a disability, or a health condition) that might affect how you apply or take part in the hiring process, just let us know. We’ll work with you to make sure things feel fair, comfortable, and tailored to you. Sharing this won’t affect your application, we just want to set you up for success.

Due to the high volume of applications, we can only contact those shortlisted for the role.