PR Executive
Ready to create headlines that drive real impact?
We usually respond within three days
What you will do
- Take ownership of outreach efforts across assigned accounts, securing relevant media placements to meet and exceed client KPIs
- Create and adapt insightful outreach strategies to ensure maximum coverage and performance for clients
- Stay ahead of media trends and continuously develop your knowledge of the ever-evolving media landscape to drive results
- Provide performance-led progress updates, report coverage, update trackers, and prepare coverage books to ensure transparency
- Draft press releases and materials with minimal amendments needed, and identify opportunities for newsjacking and reactive PR
- Play an active role in brainstorming and researching ideas for campaigns, ensuring that creativity and performance are always at the forefront
- Always look for ways to surprise and delight clients by delivering results that go above and beyond expectations
- Contribute to onboarding, QBR slides, and pitches, ensuring PR excellence across the team
- Ensure deadlines are met and outreach activity remains on track
- Share knowledge on best practices from training, events, or case studies, and contribute to driving the team forward
Requirements
- You have a strong foundation in PR, with proven success in delivering media coverage and results, preferably within an agency setting (1+ years experience)
- You love keeping up with the latest media trends, with a growing network of media contacts and can secure coverage across a range of PR tactics
- You’re a natural storyteller who loves coming up with new, innovative ideas, and can write and communicate with clarity and impact
- You understand the broader performance marketing landscape and how PR contributes to improving brand visibility and organic growth
- You take initiative, managing your time and responsibilities effectively while delivering excellent results
- You can work across internal teams (SEO, creative, and social) and external teams, ensuring campaigns are integrated and deliver maximum value
- You’re highly creative, love coming up with innovative ideas, and aren’t afraid to test and experiment with new ways of working
Diversity & Inclusion
Journey Further takes pride in creating an environment where everyone can be themselves. This starts with recruitment.
We pledge to make our roles as open as possible and to provide equal opportunities to everyone that is kind enough to give us their time. All recruitment decisions we take will be based solely on the positive skills and behaviours that applicants display and absolutely nothing else.
We do not discriminate based on any personal characteristic, we are a people first agency and we care about and celebrate individuals.
If something is important to you, it's important to us. If you have a particular need during the application process or during your time at Journey Further, please let us know.
- Department
- Organic
- Locations
- Manchester, London
- Yearly salary
- £23,500 - £27,000
- Employment type
- Full-time
Perks & Benefits
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Flexibility
We understand that everyone works differently, so we provide them the freedom to work how they want, when they want and where they want. No role is ever fully remote as we want people to be spending time with one another in person – however, we will support you in making sure you are supported in what ways of working suit you best.
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Experience
Work alongside one of the most experienced digital teams in the industry, and collaborate directly with clients at some of the world’s largest brands and high-growth startups, including Virgin, Sky and Oddbox.
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Trust
We believe in giving ambitious people incredible autonomy in their work. You’ll have the freedom to tackle complex problems and the support of some of the talented people in the industry to do so.
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Wellbeing
We actively care for our team’s physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
We run various company initiatives to help promote physical wellbeing – yoga, running club, 5-a-side football to name a few.
We believe in taking a proactive approach when it comes to all our people’s mental wellbeing. As such we have partnered with experts (Vitality and Chakra Corporate) that our people can turn to.
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Learning
Through our Learn Together sessions, Book Club and Podcast, we learn from the best minds in the world and apply the most valuable insight to the work we do and how we run the business.
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CSR
CSR is a key priority for the business. We’re currently working on how we can make a lasting, positive impact on the world around us. Recent initiatives we are proud of include our cycling challenge for Breast Cancer Now, our donation to PhysCap and Jon’s campaign to support local food banks.
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Benefits
Our benefits package is constantly evolving. In the UK it currently includes:
- Pension matched up to 4%
- Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
- Private medical insurance
- Personal health fund
- Home working allowance
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and Christmas shutdown
- Unlimited unpaid holiday
In the US it currently includes:
- 401k matching
- Subsidized Medical, Dental & Vision
Company Life Insurance - Enhanced Maternity & Paternity cover
- Flexible and Remote working
- 25 days paid time off plus all federal holidays & office closure between Christmas and New Year
- Unlimited unpaid time off
About Journey Further
Journey Further is a performance marketing agency working with the world's leading brands and fast-growth start-ups. We blend strategic thinking, creativity, digital channels and experimentation to create the performance brands of tomorrow.
PR Executive
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