Job Description
Account Manager / PR & Communications
Minimum 4 years+ experience in PR/Communications (B2B/Corporate Communications)

Who we are
We are BPG (Bates PanGulf) and we are one of the region’s preeminent Integrated MarCom Services companies that’s fueled by a distinctive culture of diversity, integration and innovation. We are powered by data-driven insights and our silo-free culture helps us build relevant, nuanced and impactful solutions for our diverse clientele. As we have been growing our client base and service offerings recently, we are looking for an Account Manager / PR & Communications to join our energized team in Riyadh.

As an Account Manager, you will be responsible for overseeing and executing daily operational activities within the PR & Communications team, reporting to senior leadership. This role demands a proactive approach, robust management capabilities, and a commitment to nurturing strong relationships with both clients and internal teams.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Take full ownership of client relationships and accounts, ensuring proactive communications regarding ongoing activities, and maintaining a deep understanding of the clients’ business, industry, goals and ambitions in order to provide insightful consultancy, advice and recommendations
• Actively participate in account planning, setting meeting agendas and contribute to the development and execution of client initiatives.
• Ability to draft compelling project proposals and identify new opportunities and solutions for current clients.
• Manage multiple client projects concurrently, ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality insights. Effectively convey complex data and findings to clients in an understandable manner.
• Cultivate and maintain relationships with media professionals, journalists, and influencers. Pitch stories, press releases, and media opportunities to secure positive media coverage for clients. Monitor media coverage, track industry trends, and provide media analysis and insights to clients.
• Engage in broader agency creative brainstorms, applying innovative thinking to all assigned tasks and projects.
• Generate engaging content and ideas that align with client objectives, demonstrating a strong passion for effective storytelling.
• Deliver strategic insights and actionable recommendations from comprehensive data analysis, moving beyond standard reporting. Ability to identify emerging market trends, to assess opportunities for clients.
• Lead and coordinate across the wider agency to deliver integrated communications campaigns.
• Contribute significantly to new business development, including lead identification, research for proposals and proposal creation support and participating in new business pitches.
• Ability to manage client finances and budgets, invoices and estimations.
• Actively engage in training, learning and development initiatives and serve a role model for junior staff.
• Maintain and up-to-date knowledge on AI advancements and explore its practical applications within the PR and communications landscape.

BPG Diversity and Inclusion
For more than four decades, we have helped brands succeed, influence, transform and win in a changing world. We are an award winning integrated agency powered by bold, data-driven creativity.
Our legacy includes telling inclusive stories that resonate with diverse audiences, regardless of nationality, age, gender, ability or socio-economic status.
To be disruptors, challengers and innovators, we go the extra mile to unearth the stories that need to be told. We especially love to champion those without a voice, or a seat at the table.
Our work speaks of the richness and diversity of our region. We strive to offer effective platforms for our clients to be seen and heard – no matter how large or small, celebrated or insignificant.
Together, we speak many languages as one. Our team brings together people from more than 30 countries and cultures. This blend of global talent and local expertise fosters new ideas and fresh perspectives, and breathes life into all our endeavors.
Our mission is to spark conversations, ignite passions, and generate better ideas that help solve some of the world’s biggest problems. We work closely with our partners to ensure our work stays true to these values.
We recognise that it is a journey of continuous education – and we are prepared to learn, unlearn and relearn it all in our pursuit of a more equitable future.
We believe our strength lies in our diversity. Inspired by culture, powered by insights, human by design and integrated by intent – we are BPG.