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Account Executive / Jr. Account Executive (Fashion & Lifestyle)

Job description:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Account Executive or Junior Account Executive with a proven track record of pitching and securing media placements in fashion, lifestyle, and trade publications. The ideal candidate will have strong fashion and lifestyle media contacts. We are looking for someone who is creative and a proactive go-getter looking to join a positive and collaborative team.

Qualifications:

  • Must have extensive, established media contacts and great media relations skills
  • Fashion, accessories, beauty and lifestyle experience is crucial
  • Ability to manage a multi-faceted, high-volume campaigns
  • Experience working with influencers and celebrity talent
  • Broad industry knowledge of important pop culture happenings
  • Client relations skills, ability to assert industry expertise, while building strong relationships with clients, the media and other employees in the company
  • Strong strategizing abilities
  • Must be a team player and work well in fast paced environment

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Ability to lead planning and executing of PR campaigns for brands
  • Coming up with positive news coverage about clients or products, cooperating with clients and media on a daily basis to come up with news content
  • Constantly monitoring media and social media to find new opportunities for clients
  • Develop and distribute press releases to the media
  • Secure press coverage and product placement in key media outlets
  • Develop and execute celebrity seeding opportunities for clients
  • Ability to manage several accounts
  • Complete client and editor requests within a timely manner
  • Act as the main contact for client communication
  • Attending client meetings and preparing reports for clients
  • Research and present opportunities for increasing brand visibility amongst core demographic, style influencers, media and celebrities
  • Maintaining extensive and meticulously updated contacts lists / databases
  • Demonstrate a positive, self- motivating attitude while managing time efficiently
  • Exhibit strong communication and seasoned writing skills
  • Be detail oriented and able to multitask in a well-organized manner

Requirements:

  • 2 years of full-time public relations experience (agency or in-house) in the lifestyle and/or fashion field
  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Proven success in pitching TV, print and online media
  • Proven success in securing top tier placements
  • Knowledge of celebrity and influencer relations