About this role
Six month contract, with likelihood of extension.
Cover letter required.
*About the role:*
Magnolia is looking for an experienced marketing and communications professional to provide seamless coverage for an established client portfolio. This role combines established project and account management with hands-on public relations, branding, and communications strategy and execution.
Our company is results-driven, growth minded led by a team of relentless and tireless customer-centric marketing and communications experts. The ideal candidate is a natural people-person, thrives on building and maintaining relationships, highly-organized, proactive, is a strategic and forward thinker, is growth-minded and also has competent knowledge of PR and marketing. You are a self-motivated, hungry individual who is eager to learn and challenge the status quo to drive better results for our clients and our business.
You will lead day-to-day client relationships, translate business goals into clear workplans, coordinate cross-functional teams and keep deliverables on time, on budget and to a high standard. You will also lead strategic planning, account management and maintaining client relations. Dealing with pressure is not a concern, but you thrive on it. The emphasis of this role is primarily on maintaining and growing client relations, ensuring client accounts are well maintained, managed and are growing.
*You will lead*:
* You will be client facing; engage directly with clients to ensure excellent service is being provided * Establish peer-to-peer relationships with your clients (DM, PR, Comms and/or Content) * Ensuring clients are satisfied with Magnolia?s services and fulfillment * Conduct and lead client meetings * Handle and resolve all client and internal team PR and Communications queries * Assist the strategic counsel on your accounts in developing marketing strategies/recommendations based on client conversations and business objectives, including executing on those strategies, as applicable * Develop an effective and open line of communication for clients * Identify account risks and opportunities * Translate client objectives into clear PR and communications priorities, scopes, workback schedules, deliverables, responsibilities and success measures. * Manage concurrent projects in Asana or an equivalent platform, coordinating dependencies, approvals and resources across PR, content, digital marketing, creative and leadership teams. * Provide quality assurance before delivery and ensure work is strategic, accurate, on-brand and polished. * Ensure client retention * Create opportunities for strong, long-lasting relationships with clients * Develop and execute PR and communications plans aligned with client business objectives, target audiences, messages and measurable outcomes. * Conduct media outreach to secure opportunities for clients; including interviews, byline articles, podcast appearances, TV interviews, etc. * Write and edit press releases, media pitches, byline articles, op-eds, award submissions, case studies, talking points, briefing notes and related communications materials. * Identify timely media angles and thought-leadership opportunities by monitoring client sectors, competitors, news and emerging issues. * Build targeted media lists and editorial calendars * Create media briefing documents with detailed and insightful notes to prepare clients for interview appointments * Track and report on performance, including quality of coverage, message pull-through, audience relevance and progress against agreed KPIs. * Support on other PR and communications projects as needed.
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*About You:*
* Desired Bachelor?s degree in Marketing, Communications or related field * At least 5 years? experience in marketing, agency experience an asset * Strong unde