Consultant (Senior Account Executive)
Employment: permanent – four or five days
Hybrid: home/remote and office in London
Application deadline: 29 August 2025
Salary: up to £30k, depending on experience
About us
Highbury Communications is a boutique consultancy providing strategic communications and public affairs advice to ambitious scale-ups, established innovators and top-tier global businesses.
We implement corporate PR and public affairs campaigns that deliver commercial results.
We offer strategic communications services such as planning and strategy, corporate storytelling and messaging, and issues and crisis management. We also offer public affairs advice such as policy and political monitoring, stakeholder engagement, government relations and policy and consultation responses.
Our clients are typically tech businesses, financial institutions, and professional services firms.
The role
After several new business wins, we’re looking for a versatile and ambitious consultant (senior account executive) to hit the ground running, specifically focused on our corporate comms accounts.
The opportunity
- Work on global campaigns with innovative and established businesses
- Help build reputation and momentum for ambitious scale-ups
- Gain diverse experience across a variety of corporate reputation accounts
- Help engage a range of stakeholders including journalists
- Join a fast-growing agency with quick career progression and potential for senior leadership roles for the right person
Responsibilities
- Understanding our clients’ propositions and business and comms objectives
- Leading campaigns with autonomy from senior colleagues
- Monitoring media and current affairs developments
- Delivering high impact media relations in the national, business and sector media
- Creating engaging thought leadership and written content
- Nurturing relationships with journalists and policymakers
- Keeping abreast of the news, political, and policy agenda across relevant sectors
About you
Experience
- A minimum of one to two years’ agency experience
- Have run a PR campaign
- Managed accounts and built relationships with clients, journalists and other stakeholders
- First-class written and verbal communication skills
- Proactive and evidence of industry
Key attributes
- Critical thinker: able to seize opportunities or reduce risks for clients
- Adaptable: ability to flex across corporate accounts and issues to meet objectives and priorities.
- Connected: to the media and political agenda
- Curious: as a small agency, we want someone keen to learn beyond the remit of the role
- Passionate: given our mix of corporate and public affairs accounts, we want someone with an interest in and/or experience of both
- Positive: we value character more than credentials. We want someone who’s excited about the role, what they do and working in a small but growing business
Even if you don’t have the experience we’ve listed, contact us if you think you’re the right person
What do we offer?
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits.
- Flexible working
- Remote/hybrid working
- CIPR membership and regular training
- Up to 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Monthly team socials
- Discretionary bonus
- Percentage of new business wins
Applying
If interested, please send an email to jboydwallis@highburycomms.com with the subject line “Consultant application” with:
- Your CV
- A short cover letter with 100 words about a corporate PR or public affairs campaign you love and why
We may not be able to respond to all applications.