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About the Role
BLUE is seeking an Account Manager to serve as the primary day-to-day contact for a client portfolio. This role involves translating strategy into tactical implementation, leveraging PR creativity and sector intelligence, and mentoring junior team members. The ideal candidate will act as a communications counsel and critical friend to clients, contributing to the company's culture and talent development.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the trusted day-to-day client contact, translating strategy into tactical delivery across multiple accounts.
- Monitor delivery against KPIs, identifying news hooks and thought leadership angles by combining PR creativity with sector knowledge.
- Act as a critical friend, leading client meetings and building relationships with journalists and industry influencers.
- Produce client-ready first drafts of press releases, pitches, by-lined features, media briefs, and speaker abstracts with minimal senior input.
- Oversee client social media content, ensuring brand tone of voice consistency.
- Mentor and develop Account Executives, fostering their skills and potential.
- Delegate effectively, involve senior support when necessary, and manage upwards to meet deadlines.
- Uphold BLUE's culture and set standards for junior staff.
- Own the delivery of client events and webinars against agreed KPIs, managing all aspects from invitations to on-the-day execution.
- Identify commercial opportunities within accounts and report them to the senior team.
- Contribute to new business pitches, proposals, and brainstorms.
- Help build BLUE's own profile and network.
Requirements
- Solid agency-side PR or communications experience with a track record of day-to-day client account management.
- Excellent written and spoken English, with strict attention to grammar, tone, and journalistic style.
- Proven project management skills, with the ability to juggle multiple accounts, prioritize tasks, and manage deadlines (including upwards).
- Experience mentoring or line-managing junior team members.
- Strong media relations skills with existing relationships with journalists and industry influencers.
- A commercial mindset with the confidence to push back and manage client expectations against an agreed retainer.
- Experience in, or genuine curiosity about, the marine, renewable energy, or wider sustainability sectors (desirable).
- Experience managing client events or webinars (desirable).
- Experience managing social media for corporate or B2B clients (desirable).
Skills
- Account Management
- PR Creativity
- Sector Intelligence
- Mentoring
- Project Management
- Media Relations
- Commercial Mindset
- Client Relationship Management
- Content Creation
- Social Media Management
- Event Management
Location
- UK offices
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Work from anywhere (2 weeks, after 1 year of service)
Experience Level
- Agency-side PR or communications experience
- Experience mentoring or line-managing junior team members
Salary/Compensations
- New Business commission scheme
Benefits
- Hybrid working
- 4pm Friday finish encouraged
- Dog friendly offices
- Charity donation made in your name on your birthday
- Day off on your birthday
- Employee of the Quarter recognition
- Additional annual leave after 2 years
- New Business commission scheme
- Employee assistance scheme
- Two centrally located UK offices, fully stocked with food and drink
- Regular team socials
- Perk Box access and discounts
- Salary sacrifice pension scheme
- ‘Work from anywhere’ policy (2 weeks, after 1 year of service)
- A genuine stake in a growing, purpose-led consultancy
- Opportunity for international travel and events
- Weekly T@3 for knowledge sharing
- Loyalty bonuses
About the Company
- BLUE is a specialist global B2B communications consultancy for organisations operating in complex, high-value industries such as maritime, marine leisure, energy, and carbon markets.
- Since 2008, BLUE has turned market expertise into influence and impact, helping clients lead conversations, shape markets, and unlock growth.
- BLUE's credibility comes from deep immersion, not observation, allowing them to operate as true consultants.
- BLUE is a growing, purpose-led consultancy.