Vacancy

We’re searching for a PR Manager to join the consumer team at WPR, winner of PR Week’s Best Agency Outside London.

Location: Birmingham, UK (hybrid – minimum of two days per week in office)

Salary: From £32,750

Start: date: ASAP

We’re ideally looking for someone already at manager level, or an experienced senior exec, within an agency setting. Working across our regional and national news teams, you’ll be well-versed in writing client-ready copy, pitching to journalists, and securing media coverage that delivers value for your clients.

A client-first attitude is essential; you’ll understand the need to build strong relationships, deliver a gold-standard service, and achieve results that meet client expectations.

Highly-organised, and experienced in managing multiple priorities across client accounts, you’ll be able to deliver all of the above to deadline and within your allocated hours.

In return, you’ll get to work on a selection of the UK’s biggest brands, mentored by some of the best PR brains in the business, and rewarded with brilliant benefits (read on below!).

If this sounds like you, send your CV to joinus@wpragency.co.uk or to find out more, call 0121 456 3004 and ask for Mel Palmer.

A note on AI: We use tools to help us understand how applications are written. As we don’t use AI to create original content, we ask that you don’t either – but we understand that you may wish to use it for some light editing.

Our commitment to DEI: 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 we 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 across their professional lives
• 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, plus 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 days
• Wellbeing committee
• Christmas committee
• DEI committee
• Environment committee

Find more about working at WPR here