Come join FINN Partners, an award-winning global integrated marketing agency!  We are seeking an experienced Account Supervisor to join our Travel | Lifestyle division.   

The ideal Account Supervisor is a resourceful, self-starter and leader who shares our Work Hard-Play Nice values and thrives on tackling new challenges every day and is passionate about all aspects of the Travel, Tourism and Hospitality Industry. He/she/ they will be part of a strong, energetic, collaborative, and highly skilled public relations team and work on iconic global travel accounts: hotels and resorts, destinations, luxury products, airlines, and travel-related services.    

The Account Supervisor will lead multiple projects and team members and act as a primary day-to-day manager for clients with support from senior-level executives.  You will oversee media relations strategy, client planning and execution, special events, and partnership programs for travel clients. The role will lead a motivated team, engage in a range of assignments spanning launches, thought leadership, social media, and stakeholder engagement, ensuring client success.  

This role will be based in our New York City office and a hybrid schedule of a minimum of two in-office days per week.  

About Finn Partners

Finn Partners was launched in 2011 to realize Peter Finn’s vision to be a world-class, best-place-to-work global agency with a heart and a conscience that any major client in key markets around the world would be proud to have as a partner.

More than an integrated marketing agency, we are a bold collective of communications advocates, stewarding brands, protecting reputations, pioneering industries, influencing public policy, and leveraging data and analytics to shape the most important conversations of our day.

Headquartered in New York City, the agency has 1,400+ employees, with offices in 34 offices in 3 continents. Above all else, our success is driven by one simple thing: client relationships. Fueled by a relentless work ethic and dedication to client success, we do whatever it takes to make them successful while working hard, playing nice, and having fun along the way.

Responsibilities

• Serve as day-to-day client contact along with senior executives, managing overall timeline and budget, establishing your position as the client’s “go-to person”.
• Manage day-to-day execution of specific public relations campaigns and programs.
• Oversee and lead proactive media relations strategy for accounts to secure earned media.
• Lead and mentor junior staff.
• Stay in tuned to trends and newsjacking to leverage for the client’s earned media.
• Create public relations strategy documents incorporating earned, owned, and paid tactics, goals, and pitch angles.
• Organize and lead press trips on behalf of clients and events.
• Anticipate any problem-solving solutions throughout program execution.
• Cultivate meaningful media relationships on behalf of clients with a pulse on media comings and goings.
• Cultivate new business leads and opportunities, participate in proposals and presentations.

• PR agency experience (at least 5 + years) working with travel and/or consumer clients.
• A Bachelor’s degree in communications, public relations, or marketing is a plus but not required.
• Prior luxury brand experience is highly preferred.
• Experience successfully driving external programs—media relations, social media, and thought leadership.
• Strong knowledge of and relationships with top-tier mainstream media outlets in business, lifestyle, consumer, travel, and podcasts.
• A proven track record securing coverage for clients in national travel/hospitality/lifestyle media outlets and existing, strong relationships with national travel/hospitality/lifestyle media contacts and influencers.
• Strong project management, problem-solving, and executive functioning.
• Strong communications skills, both oral and written (including editing skills).
• Experience working with Meltwater, Cision, Muckrack, Creater IQ, Infegy, a plus.

Benefits

As a FINN team member, you’ll also enjoy:

• A generous time-off policy with extra time off during the summer (Summer Days), early close Fridays once a month, and office closure between Christmas and New Year’s Day.
• Complimentary reservations for our company house in upstate NY.
• A generous wellness subsidy.
• Hybrid WFH model: Company-provided weekly breakfasts and monthly lunches.

Compensation

• The approved salary range for this role is $75,000 – $90,000 annually, dependent on experience and location.

To Apply

• Please upload your resume and cover letter, detailing public relations work experience, and indicate your desired salary in $US Dollars. While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have a greater interest. 

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