Vacancy

This is a rare opportunity to join the senior team at WPR, winner of PR Week’s Best Agency Outside London.

We’re looking for a PR Director to join our award-winning consumer team and lead a portfolio of clients across retail, travel, homes and lifestyle.

The successful candidate will be operating at senior manager or director level in an agency, used to working at speed without compromising attention to detail, and ensuring KPIs are exceeded month after month.

Experience delivering against product placement briefs is non-negotiable, along with an understanding of how to gain cut-through in the national, consumer, home and lifestyle media, to deliver quality coverage on a daily basis. Crafting creative campaign proposals, analytical review documents and pitching for new business will also be part of your day-to-day work. The role will also involve coordinating press events, product launches, high-impact campaigns, creator relations, in addition to overseeing content output across a wide portfolio of accounts.

You’ll have experience in coaching, motivating and inspiring junior team members to deliver best-in-class results that delight clients. Similarly, you’ll lead by example, demonstrating a client-first attitude which includes building relationships based upon trust, providing honest consultancy and handling difficult conversations in a sensitive manner.

Finally, you’ll be used to thinking commercially, understanding that agencies can only sell time – so it must be valued. You’ll be experienced in costing work, managing budgets and tackling overservice.

If this sounds like you, please send your CV to joinus@wpragency.co.uk. For further information, call 0121 456 3004 and ask for Mel Palmer.

Start date: August/September 2025

Salary bracket: From £45,000

We are passionate about diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Our aim is for our team to be representative of society, and we are committed to building a workforce that reflects the clients and communities we serve. We have set a target for the make-up of our team to be reflective of the West Midlands community by 2028. It’s an ambitious commitment – but one we are determined to achieve.

WORKING AT WPR

At WPR, we are committed to rewarding brilliant people with brilliant benefits.

We’ll give you the chance to work on some of the UK’s leading brands, work on award-wining campaigns, receive brilliant benefits, a tailored training programme, coaching from industry leaders and a structured progression programme.

In exchange, we ask that you’ll always give your all, go above and beyond for your clients, support your team, produce your best work, attend the office on your team day and play your part in making WPR the best agency it can be.

Read more about our brilliant benefits below:

WPR is committed to doing more for people, purpose and planet through initiatives including:

• Offsetting the carbon footprint of our team
• Being a plastic neutral workplace and investing in schemes to offset our unavoidable plastic consumption
• £100 wellness grants for every member of the team

Work/Life Balance

• Enhanced holiday leave (20 days’ holiday, bank holidays, three days over Twixmas, birthday off. Buy/sell holiday. Extra day for every year of service up to five days. One-off holiday gifts for long service.)
• Flexible working location
• Flexible working hours
• Monthly flexi hour
• Emergency care leave
• Live Free Fund – £10k annual fund to enable team members to have life-enriching experiences
• Waggy Wednesdays (bring your dog to work)

Career Development & Progression

• Monthly Learning Lunches
• Annual tailored training programme
• Annual performance reviews
• Bi-monthly coaching-check ins with line manager to review objectives
• Paid study leave

Providing Financial Support

• Healthcare cash plans
• Enhanced pension contributions
• Interest-free emergency / hardship / home deposit / green property improvement / fertility loans
• Death in service cover
• 100% salary for first eight weeks of maternity/adoption leave; two weeks paternity leave paid at 100% of salary
• Access to hundreds of discounts at high street retailers
• Company-funded employee gifts

Health & Wellbeing

• Mental health support service for you and your family
• Mental health first aiders
• Employee assistance programme for:
  • Counselling
  • Legal support
  • Financial advice
• Paid special leave
• GP helpline
• Flu jabs
• Discounted gym membership
• Impact days – to support a cause close to your heart
• Health check
• Nutrition consultation
• Tailored fitness programme

Staying Social

• Book club
• Fantasy football league
• Table tennis tournaments
• Firsty Fridays
• Summer away day
• Wellbeing committee
• Christmas committee
• DEI committee
• Environment committee

Find more about working at WPR here