• Salary band: £26,325k – £27k (London Living Wage Employers)

CCGroup is a PR-led marketing agency offering world-class communications services across media, industry analysts, and digital channels. With over three decades of building brands within key technology sectors, our industry experience is unparalleled across mobile & telecoms, enterprise technology, fintech, cybersecurity and deep tech. We’ve been there at the evolution of these sectors – and told their stories.

What makes us special?

It’s our CCGroupies. At our core we’re a diverse collective of fresh thinkers
who aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo. Our team is bursting with curiosity, passion, and a drive
to make a difference. We believe in fostering genuine relationships and, above all, building long-term
and trusted partnerships. We’re constantly striving to become the best employer in tech marketing
and have been recognised and awarded in this space many times in the past five years, these are a
few of our awards:

• PRMoment Awards 2020, 2021, 2022 & 2023: Technology Agency of the Year
• PRMoment Awards 2020, 2022, 2023: B2B Agency of the Year
• PRovoke 2023: EMEA Technology Consultancy of the Year
• PRovoke 2022: Top Five UK Agencies to Work For
• PRWeek Best Places to Work 2023: Best Rewards & Benefits
• PRWeek Best Places to Work 2021: Best Agency to Work For (small agency, winner)
• PRWeek Best Places to Work 2021: Training and Development Award winner
• PRovoke 2020-2021: EMEA Technology Consultancy of the Year
• PRWeek Best Places to Work 2020: Mental Health Champion of the Year winner

Starting a career in PR

Junior Account Executive is most often the entry level position in PR. JAEs provide a crucial supporting role for account teams – ensuring that potential opportunities are seized for clients and that successes are communicated to clients regularly and effectively. JAEs work closely with, and support, Account Executives and Account Managers. They typically cover a variety of clients.

In essence, the JAE role is all about getting to grips with the basics of PR, digital marketing and analyst relations services and it exists to enable the individual to demonstrate they have the ability to effectively manage and deliver important account processes.

It is also essential that JAEs show motivation and ambition and demonstrate aptitude for influencer relations and content creation. This involves developing the knowledge and confidence to both identify and pitch for relevant opportunities. Effective and successful JAEs are able to demonstrate a strong desire to learn, ambition to progress and rise to challenges, but above all, reliability, efficiency and dependability.

Main job functions:

• Account Support
• Follow account processes to include:
  • Re gular reporting on account activities and results delivered
  • Monitoring of editorial calendars, influencer enquiry systems and social media for potential client opportunities
  • Successful pitching to influencers for potentially relevant opportunities
  • Event tracking and identifying speaker opportunities
  • Identifying possible award opportunities
  • Preparing first drafts of pitches and content
  • Maintaining a functional and up-to-date influencer distribution databases

Areas of responsibility (full responsibilities can be found in the role description below):

• Reporting, support and logistics
  • Set up client calls and meetings, providing agendas and taking and communicating action reports/activity summaries
  • Participate in brainstorms
  • Attend client meetings or events as requested by account teams
• Content creation
  • Provide support to teams in the production of client materials such as presentations and reports
  • Research, plan and produce first drafts of:
    o Press release
    o Blogs
    o Social media posts
    o Briefing documents
• Influencer relations
  • Tracking & recommending client opportunities using forward features lists, influencer enquiry
    systems, personal relationships and social media
  • Influencer pitching that delivers tangible results
  • Identifying relevant industry events and awards and recommending them to the team
• Research & knowledge development
  • Develop an understanding of the marketing mix, particularly the role of PR in relation to other
  • disciplines through consuming appropriate PR/marketing industry content
  • Become a proficient user of social media channels, especially Twitter and LinkedIn
  • Commit to securing PRCA Continuous Professional Development certification every year

Relevant experience and skills – person specification:

• Demonstrable interest in marcomms – work placements, previous roles, volunteering, blogging, extra-curricular activities etc (direct PR experience not essential)
• Basic understanding of PR, digital marketing, analyst relations services and their role in the overall marketing mix
• Well organised, ambitious and confident
• Excited by technology and the benefits it can deliver
• Has the ability to build rapport quickly
• Strong spoken and written communication skills, with excellent spelling and grammar
• Motivated to learn
• Willing to promote and follow the workplace values of CCgroup (expert, ambitious, curious, supportive, genuine

Benefits and culture

Benefits and culture

CCGroup trusts you to manage your own time, we have fully flexible and hybrid working. We expect our team members to be in twice a week, on days of their choosing.

• 22 days holiday +1 day off for your birthday + 3 religious/cultural days off of your choosing
• Holiday allowance increases with tenure, up to 27 days
• Contributory pension (3% Employer+ 5% Employee)
• Wellbeing allowance £150 per year to spend on whatever makes you happy!
• £100 Christmas gift card
• Continuous learning environment: internal and external training opportunities for everyone, focusing on individual career development plans.
• Two big company socials per year, plus regular inclusive gatherings (daytime & alcohol-free events as well).
• Time off for volunteering
• International passport: work 1 month per year anywhere in Europe!
• Generous maternity, adoption and paternity policies
• Access to WeCare – our mental and physical wellbeing support service
• Up to 5% annual bonus based on company fee targets being met
• A further bonus worth up to 7% of salary on individual performance based on 360 peer feedback during your appraisal
• Spot bonuses to recognise exceptional efforts
• Quarterly “Famous Five” awards (£100 as a recognition of exceptional performance in line with our values)
• Season ticket loan scheme
• Interest-free loan of up to £1000 (paid back over 12 months)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Early/late passes – allows each employee to arrive three hours late or leave three hours early one day per month 9 times per year (not available in December)
• Structured sabbatical scheme
• Long term service reward scheme

We’re committed to making our recruitment process as inclusive as possible. We are happy to carry out interviews virtually or in-person, whatever suits best. We can also provide interview structure and questions in advance, if it will help you. We have an accessible office in central London, the closest station is King’s Cross which is a step-free station, and we have accessible facilities including WCs and showers. We are happy to provide accessibility tools to ensure you are able to fulfil your job.

Please reach out to laura.kolb@ccgrouppr.com should you need any adjustments at all during the process and beyond!

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How to apply

To read the full role description, please click here. To apply, please send a tailored CV and cover letter to Laura Kolb via laura.kolb@ccgrouppr.com.

When submitting your application, please specify that you heard about the role through the Taylor Bennett Foundation.