Senior account executive (Spanish and Portuguese speaking)

The Role

Press Box PR is hiring a bilingual media relations executive to work in its sports and news media team, with a specific focus on landing coverage in Spanish, Portuguese and South American territories. 

Reporting to the sports leadership team, you’ll be largely pitching content to journalists and editors at Spanish, Portuguese and South American publications that cover trending sports, news and politics topics.

You will have your finger on the pulse of what kind of content Spanish, Portuguese and South American publications will want to receive and the topics that they cover, which requires a keen interest in current affairs, sport and popular culture.

While your media knowledge will be important, you will be able to speak and write fluently in Spanish and Portuguese.

You will have a keen eye for detail and the ability to produce engaging and accurate pitches on a proactive and reactive basis.

Due to the nature of this role, we would accept mainly remote working from candidates anywhere in the UK.

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Who is PBPR?

The Press Box PR team has grown from 0 to over 45 in the space of four years and combines extensive journalistic experience with top PR professionals to offer a unique proposition in the market. 

Press Box PR is a fast-growing PR agency, staffed predominantly by journalists who have made successful moves into PR. Formed in 2020, Press Box PR has grown quickly to become a thriving 45 person agency working for a range of consumer, sport and B2B clients on digital and creative PR projects.

Press Box PR is based in Barbican, central London and operates a hybrid model meaning teams spend an average of three days a week working away from home with colleagues in the office and clients at varying sites.

Requirements

• You can speak and write fluently in Spanish and Portuguese
• You know the Spanish and South American media landscape very well
• You have a growing blacklist of journalists in France, Spain and South America
• You have the written language abilities to write stories and content the Spanish and South American media want to cover 
• An ability to think on your feet and quickly react to breaking news stories to pitch engaging content to target publications

bonuses may include:

• An understanding of SEO and link-building
• Experience working in PR
• Experience working on a national or regional sports/news desk
• Qualifications relevant to journalism or PR (i.e., NCTJ qualifications)

Salary, perks and benefits

• Salary: £28,000-£34,000 DOE
• Annual bonus scheme paying up to 15%
• Enhanced private pension 
• Medicash 
• Annual training budget 
• 30 days annual leave (including bank holidays)
• Annual leave increases by one full day each year worked for up to five years

How to apply

To apply, please send your CV and email us telling us why you think you'd be a good fit and give us one example of your client’s revenues growing through your successful account management.

Contact hiring managers Jack Mansell and Jake Bacon at hello@pressboxpr.co.uk with any questions.

‍Press Box PR is an equal opportunities employer encouraging applications from candidates of all backgrounds. Press Box PR will cover costs of interview travel for applicants from outside of London.

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