Public Relations Director - Sports & Entertainment

Hill & Knowlton is a strategic and creative partner to drive breakthrough opportunities for growth and value creation, advance corporate strategy, and build reputation capital and resiliency. We’re a proven partner for business and brand transformation. A full-service global firm, we provide strategic communication, marketing and corporate affairs solutions distinguished by intelligence and creativity. Hill & Knowlton is part of the Burson Group and WPP (NYSE: WPP), the creative transformation company.

About Hill & Knowlton

Hill & Knowlton is the global strategic communications leader for transformation. We help brands, businesses and leaders build reputation, manage risk, and create breakthrough opportunities for growth. Founded in 1927, today’s Hill & Knowlton operates 70 offices in over 30 countries, providing advisory, public relations and creative solutions to local and global clients. Our global team offers integrated strategic services, grounded in deep sector expertise, and enabled by creativity and intelligence. Headquartered in New York, Hill & Knowlton is part of WPP, one of the world’s largest communications services groups.

Currently our work across sport, entertainment, culture and sponsorship sees us manage an unrivalled portfolio of global brands, prestigious international events and high-profile federations with global ambitions. To support our mission and serve our clients with future communications, we are seeking a number of communications professionals to join our growing practice as part of a collaborative newsroom.

Senior members of the sports team at Hill & Knowlton (H&K) are active leaders of projects, trusted consultants to our clients as well as developing partnerships with government authorities, sports, event companies and organizing bodies. Our directors and managers are passionate and proactive about storytelling, developing knowledge and championing H&K standards. Roles vary from being full time consultants on specific project management campaigns to working across selected key accounts across our portfolio of events.

The role requires mobility and flexibility to travel with the successful candidate running live events planning, delivery across marketing functions.

At this level, you have the experience and autonomy to independently lead projects, planning and delivering newsrooms with knowledge and experience across the mix; from content production to design and data and devising publishing channel strategies (traditional and social; earned, owned, shared and paid).

The role requires brilliant basics of excellent written and communication skills and first class media and influencer relations. The successful candidate will need to bring fresh ideas, creative thinking, energy and a strategic mindset to developing and producing high quality, tailored news and content.

You will also be able to identify new opportunities and play a proactive role in terms of proposal development. The candidate will be able to demonstrate a clear ability to line manage, lead juniors and teams within projects.

• Act as senior lead client contact who can take wider business and marketing strategy and development them into digital and social media content and publishing strategies
• Champion the importance of client satisfaction and service within the team, leading by example and encouraging positive client relationship building behaviour and champion stand-out work
• Work well within collaborative, integrated teams, displaying a proven ability in running a team, controlling timelines and budgets, anticipating issues and working towards solution of complex problems
• Have exceptional creative and proposal writing skills
• Act as H&K spokesperson, improving client relationship, service and scope
• Display strong technical proficiency across marketing platforms and inherent curiosity about merging platforms
• Ability to lead a multi-disciplinary team

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

• Exemplify the company’s ethics, vision and values in daily work
• Build on your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
• Independently, assume a greater level of responsibility and accountability for client relationships, driving your practice area with revenue targets
• Create and drive initiatives to strengthen skills and culture of practice area/office through training and/or office responsibilities
• Take a lead role on strategic consultancy services such as media training, messaging, strategy development, flight school and crisis preparation/handling
• Be seen as a leader within your office; display gravitas; manage difficult client relationships

QUALIFICATIONS:

• University degree
• 10++ years’ relevant industry experience
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Proven presentation and planning capabilities
• Ability to multi-task and work in a team environment
• Bilingual is an asset

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Across 70 offices in 30 countries our people are the heartbeat of our business. Bridging countless cultures, backgrounds and lived experiences, we are drawn together by a common drive and a collaborative spirit – called to our craft each day by the desire to deliver the best work.

And at H&K, diversity, equity and inclusion are not just values; they are strategic imperatives that fuel our future in an industry built on the art of understanding, connecting and developing relationships. We believe that a diverse workforce is essential for inspiring bold ideas, fostering constructive dialogue and cultivating meaningful experiences that drive innovation and creativity.

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