Public Relations Account Supervisor – Sports PR (Remote)
LOCATION: Our Sports PR department is in our NY, NY global HQ. We are seeking qualified current USA based applicants for this remote work full-time position. (If you prefer to work onsite in our NY, NY Office, it can be arranged.)
We seek a Sports Public Relations professional with 5 years of prior PR agency-based work history delighting their Women’s Sports PR clients with outstanding quality PR campaigns and strategies. In our Account Supervisor role, you will work with exciting clients including professional sports leagues and associations, professional athletes, and active outdoor and fitness brands. You will utilize your years of women’s sports focused public relations agency work experience, your passion for the sports industry, and your creative approaches, collaborative spirit, and hard work to deliver dynamic PR strategy and program execution to our clients. A proven record of leading – coaching - mentoring your PR teammates, creating inspiring PR strategies/campaigns, and delivering excellent media results for our clients is key. This role reports to and collaborates with our Sports PR practice’s senior leadership.
FINN Partners is the fastest growing integrated marketing agency in the United States. Our core values include kindness, integrity, a commitment to DEI, collaboration, and innovation. We receive great joy in amazing our clients with our outstanding public relations work. We offer a PR career opportunity for you to professionally grow, learn and contribute. Come check us out – you’ll love what you see!
This position has terrific perks:
- Generous paid vacation days off, paid personal days off, paid sick days off, and paid scheduled holidays off
- Additional paid Summer Days off, and additional paid days off during our Winter closure (between Christmas and New Year’s Day)
- Travel + consumer goods discounts (from rental cars to cell phones and more)
- Wellness subsidy
- 401K
- Outstanding insurance / benefits package
- Career mentorship from some of the best PR pros in the business
- Professional growth opportunities within an award-winning global PR agency
- If you choose to work in-office in our NYC Global HQ, you will be working in a gorgeous office building conveniently located near West 53rd St. in Manhattan, just steps from train/bus/subway stations, great restaurants, and Central Park.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the execution of integrated and successful women’s sports and sports public relations campaigns/programs that exceed client goals
- Maintain clear and consistent communications; provide proper direction and counsel; and offer problem-solving solutions to clients
- Develop and grow senior client relationships
- Deliver outstanding earned media results daily.
- Supervise and lead internal PR teams and staff to drive their professional growth; provide proper feedback and guidance; motivate our Sports PR staff members to be creative and achieve excellent results
- Review and develop press materials, including but not limited to press releases, media advisories, key messages, Q&As, and executive remarks
- Develop overall communications media strategy for clients; manage profitability and financial aspects of accounts
- Utilize excellent contacts to secure consistent media coverage across a wide range of consumer, sports, business, lifestyle, and news publications
- Establish new media contacts to expand reach across print, online, TV, social, radio and podcasts
- Generate new Sports PR business opportunities and help secure new clients; research, and participate in new business presentations; develop RFPs that showcase our unique capabilities and proven results
Qualifications:
- 5+ years of prior Women’s Sports Public Relations progressive work history in a PR agency setting
- Bachelor's degree in public relations, marketing, communications or related field
- Proven history of leading team and driving results
- Exceptional media relations with many top-tier national and trade outlets; proven history of media placements and established contacts
- Ability to develop and execute successful media relations programs
- Excellent writing and editing skills (familiar with AP style).
- Strong communications skills, project management capabilities and proven problem-solving ability
- Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and meet all deadline
- Effectively work as part of a team, share information freely and support the common goals of the group. A true team player.
- Detail-oriented, organized, hardworking, flexible, thorough.
New York, NY
Anticipated Salary: $75k to $95k. Commensurate with experience and depending upon workplace.
To Apply:
Please upload your resume, upload your cover letter detailing your PR prior work experience, and indicate your desired salary in $US Dollars within our stated salary budget for this role. While we appreciate the interest of all candidates, we will only respond to those with whom we have a greater interest.
About Finn Partners:
FINN Partners was launched in 2011 to realize Peter Finn's vision to create a leading communications agency dedicated to shaping a bold new future in which innovation and partnership are strong drivers of the brand. Finn Partners specializes in the full spectrum of communications services, including digital and social media. Practice areas include arts, consumer lifestyle & sports, corporate social responsibility, education, health, manufacturing, technology, travel, and public affairs. We are entrepreneurial-minded, global, and focused on integrated programs that bring to life the world-changing technologies, products, and services of our client partners. Our company culture celebrates delighting our clients with innovative and creative campaigns and programs, and we provide opportunities for our employees to conduct career-meaningful work in a creative, fast-paced, collaborative, and fun environment. We work hard and play nice.
Headquartered in New York City, the agency has 1,300+ employees with offices in 32 cities around the world: Atlanta, Bangalore, Beijing, Boston, Chicago, Delhi, Denver, Detroit, Dublin, Frankfurt, Fort Lauderdale, Hong Kong, Honolulu, Jerusalem, Kuala Lumpur, London, Los Angeles, Madison (Wisc.), Manila, Mumbai, Munich, Nashville, Paris, Portland (Ore.), San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Shanghai, Singapore, Tamuning (Guam), Vancouver (Wash.) and Washington D.C.