£23,500 - £29,000 • Journey Further • Manchester, London or Leeds
About Journey Further
Founded over seven years ago, Journey Further is a Performance Marketing agency that accelerates growth for leading household brands and disruptive start-ups. Our 150+ team are located in Leeds (HQ), Manchester, London and New York
We have been recognised as the fastest growing agency in Europe (AdWeek) a ‘Top 10 Best Places to Work’ (Best Companies.
Role Purpose
As a PR Executive, you’ll be instrumental in delivering effective and impactful PR campaigns for our clients. You’ll have a passion for building and maintaining strong relationships with journalists, securing high-value media coverage, and supporting the delivery of campaigns that help brands stand out in the market.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll be at the forefront of outreach, ensuring our clients get the coverage and recognition they deserve. You won’t be afraid to try new things to keep our outreach process fresh, innovative, and ever-evolving, pushing boundaries to ensure our clients are always ahead of the curve.
Key Areas of Responsibility
- Media Outreach & Relations: Take ownership of outreach efforts across assigned accounts, securing relevant media placements to meet and exceed client KPIs.
- Develop Outreach Strategies: Create and adapt outreach strategies based on insights and results to ensure maximum coverage and performance for each client.
- Media Landscape Mastery: Stay ahead of media trends and continuously develop your knowledge of the ever-evolving media landscape to drive results.
- Client Updates & Reporting: Provide performance-led updates, including reporting coverage, updating trackers, and preparing coverage books to ensure transparency and progress.
- Press Materials & Newsjacking: Draft press releases and materials with minimal amendments needed, and identify opportunities for newsjacking and reactive PR that benefits clients.
- Support Campaign Ideation: Play an active role in brainstorming and researching ideas for campaigns, ensuring that creativity and performance are always at the forefront.
- Go the Extra Mile: Always look for ways to surprise and delight clients by delivering results that go above and beyond expectations.
General Areas of Responsibility
- Support PR Excellence: Contribute to onboarding, QBR slides, and pitches, ensuring PR excellence across the team.
- Effective Time Management: Ensure deadlines are met and outreach activity remains on track across all clients.
- Continuous Improvement: Share knowledge on best practices from training, events, or case studies, and contribute to making the team even better.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- 1+ Years of PR Experience: A strong foundation in PR, with proven success in delivering media coverage and results, preferably within an agency setting.
- Media-Savvy: A love for keeping up with the latest media trends, with a growing network of media contacts and the ability to secure coverage across a range of PR tactics.
- Creativity & Communication: You’re a natural storyteller who loves coming up with new, innovative ideas, and can write and communicate with clarity and impact.
- Results-Driven: You understand the broader performance marketing landscape and how PR contributes to improving brand visibility and organic growth.
- Proactive & Organised: You take initiative, managing your time and responsibilities effectively while delivering excellent results.
- Collaborative: Able to work across internal teams (SEO, creative, and social) and external teams, ensuring campaigns are integrated and deliver maximum value.
Why Join Us?
- Impactful Work: Be part of a team that drives real results for exciting brands, using creativity and data to deliver standout PR campaigns.
- Innovative Culture: Work in a dynamic environment where bold ideas are encouraged, and you have the freedom to experiment and push boundaries.
- Growth Opportunities: We believe in continuous learning and development, offering opportunities to advance your skills and career.
Ready to create headlines and drive real impact?
Join Journey Further, where your work will be seen, celebrated, and drive genuine business success.
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.
Sorry, We cannot offer sponsorship to work in the UK.
Locations job is available:
Manchester, London, Leeds
Leeds and Manchester salary bracket
£23,500 - £27,000
London salary bracket
£24,000 - £29,000