PR Manager

Job Description

PR Manager, Festival Republic

Company: Festival Republic

Department: Marketing and PR

Location: Farringdon, London

Reporting to: Head of Marketing and PR

Working Hours: Full time. 10am-6pm although these vary, particularly in high season. Permanent Contract

Role

Festival Republic is the UK's leading festival and events promoter. We are looking for an experienced, energetic and self-motivated individual to manage the PR for the company's portfolio of festivals and events.

Reporting to the Head of Marketing and PR, you will manage PR campaigns and strategies to include The Great Escape, Download, Latitude, Wilderness, Wireless, Reading and Leeds festivals, plus other events, working closely with a roster of agencies.

You must have at least five years' experience as a PR or Media Manager within a similar field, with a fantastic knowledge of the festival and music industry.

What it's like to work in the Team?

The Marketing and PR team is a live music obsessed team of talented individuals who thrive on collaboration. Some team members are dedicated to individual festivals and some work across the whole portfolio. The PR Manager gets to work closely across all of our wonderful events and audiences. We welcome great ideas from everyone in the team and celebrate each others successes. This role would suit someone who was keen to roll their sleeves up and become part of our friendly department.

Who you are?

Competencies / Skills / Knowledge / Experience
• A background in music PR, partnership work or media
• An abundance of creativity
• A knowledge of social media and the digital media landscape including influencers
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage a number of projects at one time
• Ability to stay calm under pressure and respond to changing priorities
• Excellent communication skills
• Fluent in English and an excellent command of grammar and spelling
• Copywriting and proof reading abilities
• Knowledge and enthusiasm for UK and European festival markets and events

Behaviours

The following attributes determine how the role will be carried out and are required to be a success
• Must be able to inspire agencies to develop their best work
• Have high standards with a tendency not to settle for second best
• A sense of humour is invaluable

What the role includes?

Publicity:
• Understand the festival market for each event through market analysis, customer profiling and competitor awareness
• Manage and maintain key journalist relationships in online, radio, TV, print and regional
• Managing PR campaigns across all festivals
• Working with press agencies on strategy, targeted media, feature ideas, identifying and communicating the USPs and ethos of each event
• Negotiating and executing contracts with agencies and media partners
• Dealing with all press enquiries to FR
• Coordinating announcements/ exclusives with media partners
• Setting up relationships/ maintaining existing media partnerships
• Working on collaborations with influencers and digital supporters
• Coordinating and managing media partner activity and overseeing press activity on site
• Managing press budgets for each event
• Managing requests to film on site
• Managing artist photo and film requests on site
• Coordinating Press launches and Press days
• Manage in house media lists and media distribution

Corporate PR:
• Corporate PR positioning and managing media enquiries
• Charity partners, communicating key charity projects per event and ensuring media needs are looked after
• Sustainability, communicating key process' and media positioning within the market
• Stakeholder media management
• Drugs and health and safety messaging coordination
• Liaise with Global PR teams across business keeping abreast of current business trends
• Manage and coordinate key business messages with trade media
• Ensure updated corporate messaging sites on event websites

Crisis Communication:
• Manage and circulate to key stakeholder's robust media crisis communications plan
• Work closely with external PR agencies in the event of a media crisis
• Manage the creation and distribution of crisis communication media messaging
• Media liaison with key authorities in lead up to and at event

Reality Check

While this is a great opportunity in an exciting industry this is not just a chance to see shows for free! The role is not your ordinary 9-5 and the industry is demanding with sometimes unsociable and long hours. The excitement and energy of the shows, tours and festivals we create comes from the hard work and dedication we commit to our work, and this role is no exception to this. So, get ready to bring your best to the role.

The Company

Festival Republic is part of Live Nation Entertainment which is the world's leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, LN Media and Artist Nation Management.

We reserve the right to close this job advert at any time.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-rv76zm-3-21-106-69-42 in your application.