Senior PR Account Executive

ASDA'A Burson-Marsteller - Dubai, UAE

Job Description

The Account Executive will provide support to the Senior Account Manager on all operational aspects in managing a high profile account. You be required to draft media content, develop local and international media contacts, liaise with media on story development, co-ordinate and implement events, represent client at trade shows, assist in proposals development and prepare activity reports for the client.

To be considered for this role you must have worked in the fields of journalism, public relations and communication. You will have excellent writing and communications skills and have a strong desire for a career in PR. We are seeking graduates who have 3+ years’ work experience.

If you are results-oriented, tenacious and passionate about PR, with excellent strategic thinking and communication skills, capable of multi-tasking, with a can-do attitude at all times, then this is the role for you.

In return you will be joining an inspiring team who has an excellent reputation for both their client work and motivational environment. You will be coached, mentored and trained by industry leaders to help you realise your full potential. You will get to work as partners for some of the region’s strongest brands, with sister companies within the WPP Group.

Skills

PR Professional

You must be able to write Press Releases and write to a high standard, working under the direction of the Account Manager.

Be experienced in managing a client, being able to represent the agency.

Talk to the media and represent the client in all local, national and international press.

About This Company

Over the last decade, ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller (B-M) has earned its reputation as the Middle East’s largest independent public relations consultancy and the benchmark of PR practice in the region. Since its founding in 1999, ASDA’A B-M has played a pivotal role in the development of the Middle East public relations industry. Through its longstanding commitment to providing innovative, results-driven communications solutions, ASDA’A B-M has emerged as the region’s premier public relations consultancy. The agency’s communications solutions are consistently linked to its client’s business results, earning ASDA’A B-M a seat at the executive table as trusted business advisers.

Another cornerstone of ASDA’A B-M in the region is its evidence-based approach to communications. The firm conducts proprietary, in-depth research, such as the groundbreaking annual Arab Youth Survey. Through this and other studies, the agency provides unique perspectives on a range of issues, attitudes and activities in the Middle East. The overarching aim of this survey is to offer public and private-sector institutions knowledge and insights that they can use to connect with the region’s largest demographic of the region - 200 million young people out of a total population of over 300 million in the Arab world.

ASDA’A B-M is part of the MENACOM Group, the region’s leading communications network, which manages a diversified range of communications firms including: advertising brands Young & Rubicam and Intermarkets; direct marketing specialists Wunderman; media planning and buying firm Mediaedge and interactive firm Tattoo. The MENACOM Group employs nearly 1,200 professionals working across 57 offices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region.

MENACOM is majority owned by WPP, one of the world’s leading communications services networks, employing 135,000 people working in over 2,000 offices in 107 countries.