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Account Executive – Fort Lauderdale
Location: Fort Lauderdale – hybrid
We’re looking for an amazing Account Executive to join the FINN Partners team in Fort Lauderdale. This is an opportunity to join one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing integrated public relations and marketing firms in the world, which was recently named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2024. We offer a unique opportunity: the chance to contribute your passion, energy and talents with a roster of incredible clients and major brands in an entrepreneurial environment while collaborating, learning, and growing your career with an amazing local and global team of nearly 14,000+ colleagues in 33 offices around the world.
Specific Job Functions Related To Job Responsibilities
- Help support the delivery of high-quality programs that meet and exceed client goals.
- Organize and support account management activities: calls, follow-up reports, media monitoring
- Build an understanding and knowledge of client business and their competitive business environments, monitor and proactively flag trends and articles relevant to client business
- Research key client information including business strategy, products and services, key customers and competitors
- Work with team members to respond to client requests and ensure requests are taken care of in an efficient manner
- Develop client content including internal and external documents, such as: media pitches, news releases, social media content, talking points, fact sheets, bios, agendas, basic newsletter and website content, creative briefs.
- Create and maintain media lists; field and manage routine media inquiries.
- Pitch media across all communications channels and in multiple markets – local and national.
- Monitor all media relevant to your clients; understand its relevance and share with the team and clients as instructed by the account lead.
- Develop proficiency on social channels and support execution of social campaigns.
- Develop proficiency in basic management of marketing projects.
- Support event execution and logistics.
- Help with coordination of materials related to major communications and marketing campaigns.
- When office leadership determines you are ready, begin to build preliminary proficiency as an account lead by managing activity and budgets on smaller accounts, with the support of a partner.
Qualifications
- A bachelor’s degree
- 1-3+ years of full-time prior PR agency work experience. (Please keep in mind that the 1-3 years do not include time you may have spent as a PR Intern while at university.
- Media relations / earned media experience
- Experience supporting clients in hospitality, food& beverage, and travel.
- Experience supporting social media strategies and campaigns—basic design skills a plus
- Ability to collaborate with team to execute successful media relations programs
- Attention to detail
- Excellent writing skills
- Strong project management skills
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong communication skills, both oral and written (including editing skills)
- Experience using Microsoft Office products
- Solid grasp of essential media monitoring and database tools (Meltwater, Muck Rack, Cision, etc.)
- Understanding of the public relations industry and its basic principles
As a FINN team member, you will have access to:
- A generous time-off policy with extra time off during the summer and office closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day
- Comprehensive medical and dental insurance with FSA
- Parental leave and flexible accommodations for working parents
- 401(k) plan with matching benefits
- Company travel and consumer discounts
- Complimentary reservations for our company house in upstate NY
- An annual Wellness subsidy
- Hybrid WFH model
- Career growth opportunities
- This position is a hybrid role. Candidates must be able to work from the Fort Lauderdale office one day per week.
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