Pr Executive - London, United Kingdom - loveholidays

loveholidays
loveholidays
Verified Company
London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Why loveholidays?*:


At loveholidays, we're on a mission to open the world to everyone, giving our customers' unlimited choice, unmatched ease and unmissable value for their next getaway.

Our team is the driving force behind our role as our customers' personal holiday expert - the smart way to get away.


The impact you'll have:


Reporting to the PR Manager, this is an exciting opportunity to join our growing brand and PR function at loveholidays, providing hands-on support to ensure we deliver against our communications objectives.

As PR Executive, you will play a key role in protecting and enhancing our reputation as a leading online travel agent by delivering creative and newsworthy stories.


We're looking for someone who is a curious, creative team player and is willing to get stuck in to land high impact coverage.

In return, we promise to provide you with a rewarding and supportive environment where you'll have the opportunity to grow and develop.


Your day-to-day:


External Communications and PR:

  • Develop press releases, media pitches, briefing documents and other communications
materials

  • Build and maintain relationships with key national, regional and trade journalists, keeping
our media database up to date

  • Pitch a range of stories and late deals to press each week
  • Monitor the news and social media for potential reputational issues, industry updates, trends and competitor activity
  • Identify newsjacking opportunities and work quickly to leverage them
  • Daily monitoring and documentation of all earned coverage
  • Support the PR manager in producing regular measurement reporting to track progress against KPIs
  • Administrative tasks such as invoicing

Your skillset:


  • Creativity is key for this role we want to create a newsjacking mentality so you'll need to be able to think outside of the box
  • Ability to build media facing narratives that highlight our brand messages and capture journalists' attention, ensuring they genuinely understand who we are and what we do
  • Experience in a fastpaced PR agency or inhouse press office functio
  • Experience of executing consumer brandawareness PR campaigns
  • Knowledge and understanding of crisis communications and issues management
  • Knowledge and understanding of digital PR and the dynamics of SEO authority
  • Excellent stakeholder management skills, being able to influence upwards is key as you'll be working with stakeholders at all levels of seniority

Not necessary but would be desirable to have:

  • Knowledge and understanding of the travel sector
  • UK and Irish media relationships, ideally across travel and consumer affairs
  • Experience managing agency relationships towards delivering clear business outcomes

Perks of joining us:

Other than an amazing environment for you to grow, have impact and show the world your incredible skills, we offer the following benefits:

  • Company pension contributions at 5%
  • Individualised training budget for you to learn on the job and level yourself up
  • Discounted holidays for you, your family and friends
  • 25 days of holidays per annum (plus 8 public holidays) increases by 1 day for every second year of service, up to a maximum 30 days per annum
  • Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
  • Subsidised gym memberships
  • Cycle to work scheme, season ticket loan and eye care vouchers
  • At loveholidays, we focus on developing an inclusive culture and environment that encourages personal growth and collective success. Each individual offers unique perspectives and ideas that increase the diversity and effectiveness of our teams. And we value the insight and potential you could bring on our continued journey._
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