Film & Entertainment - Associate Director (SAD)

We are a team of strategic communications experts and publicists working across the specialist area of Film & Entertainment while also offering support to a variety of clients across the Freuds Group. We offer unrivalled connectivity, experiences, and opportunities. From red carpet premieres to film and TV campaigns, Freuds is the place where culture and entertainment collide. We pride ourselves in delivering impactful campaigns that drive the cultural conversation.

We are seeking an experienced Film + Entertainment Associate Director (Senior Account Director) to join us on a 12-month maternity contract.  You’ll work across a portfolio of TV and Film clients, operating as a member of the senior team providing high level client counsel and acting as a mentor and manager to the team. You will have responsibility for building and maintaining relationships with clients and managing teams to ensure delivery of activity at a consistently high standard. 

• Helping to develop creative communications strategies and campaigns, supporting successful delivery
• Building trusted relationships with clients and colleagues, acting as a senior communications advisor across a range of houses and platforms
• Contributing to strategy and solutions, and bringing new ideas that help strengthen our offering
• Developing and maintaining close relationships with journalists, so they’re open to hearing ideas you pitch on behalf of clients
• Building internal and external networks with colleagues, opinion leaders, journalists, professional associations, online influencers and other relevant third parties
• Sharing insight with your team and the wider Entertainment Practice on developments in media outlets, social platforms, influencers, journalists and techniques
• Planning, integrating and delivering online PR activity as part of clients’ wider digital and traditional PR plans
• Ensuring online opportunities are considered within campaign proposals and ideas
• Developing campaigns for social networks, community sites and user forums that are memorable and deliver earned media impact
• Support senior leadership on issues and crisis management, including preparation, approach and response
• Line management  
• Encouragement of junior team members to continue building their digital knowledge
• Acting as a digital point person for the team—spotting skills gaps and suggesting solutions such as training, reading and resources
• Identifying key external digital events and encouraging relevant attendance
• Bringing enthusiasm and a ‘can-do’, proactive attitude
• Embrace our cornerstones of Love & Work, which require a passion for what we do and an ability of persevere. In addition, you will take an active role in our belonging values – collaborating to achieve common goals, connection with one another in an authentic way, sharing our perspectives and embracing others, and actively supporting each other and our experiences.