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Account Manager - PR & Marketing in Agri-Food

Employer
De Lacy Executive Recruitment
Location
Oxfordshire, Nationwide
Salary
Good competitive salary
Closing date
27 Jul 2022

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This PR & Marketing Agency is a lovely company to work for. They are warm, friendly, inclusive, team-focussed but positively encourage entrepreneurial spirit at the same time. They are ahead of the curve and innovative in their approach. They are growing and this is your chance to grow your career with them

They keep gaining more and more new clients, so they must be doing something right! They need good account managers to join the team and work with some of the best brands in Crop Production, agriculture and Food. The ideal people will have good marketing and PR capability, be confident in planning tactical campaigns and building strong relationships with clients.

The business is based in Oxfordshire but this role can be a home based role, hybrid role or office based role - which ever suites you best.

Who you are and what you will be doing;

  • Have a flair for marketing and writing, with a good understanding of traditional and digital marketing
  • successful track record as an Account Manager or Account Executive, ideally gained within a communications/PR agency
  • Ability to develop a deep understanding of a clients' business, the market place and the issues affecting them and use insight to secure and develop business.
  • Experience of generating business proposals, preparing and delivering pitches
  • Demonstrate a high level of presentation skills
  • Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Enthusiastic, proactive and self-motivated, with natural relationship building talents
  • Commercially astute with strong numeracy skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Creative thinker
  • Experience within agriculture, the food chain, animal health or land-based industries will be a strong
  • advantage

What you will be rewarded with:

  • Good competitive salary
  • Career growth and progression through the business
  • Support when you need it and freedom when you need it

For more information and an informal confidential discussion please call Stuart Goodinson on: Office 01885 483440 or e-mail your CV and covering letter to stuart.goodinson@delacyexecutive.co.uk

De Lacy Executive will upload your CV to our database and retain some data about you in order to process your application. More information about our processing activities can be found at www.delacyexecutive.co.uk/privacypolicy. Please be assured that all contact is treated in complete confidence and your details will not be passed to a third party without your prior permission.

Company

De Lacy Executive acquisition increases recruitment resources

De Lacy Executive is pleased to announce that the agri-business recruitment consultancy has been acquired by AgCareers.com Canada, part of the Farms.com group. Farms.com is a supplier of innovative technology based information products, services and publications for the global agriculture and food industry. Farms.com has offices in Canada, USA, Australia and India and also owns and operates a 2,000 acre farm in Canada. A large number of leading organizations in the international agriculture and food industries are amongst its clients.

Graham Dyer, President of Farms.com believes "De Lacy Executive has a unique search and selection recruitment service based upon integrity and profound industry knowledge. We are thrilled to add this excellent team to our group. It will be 'business as usual' for this professional team. We will add to the De Lacy portfolio of services and spread the model to other sectors of UK land based business and to other parts of the world, benefitting our clientele and providing additional support and guidance for jobseekers. Combined with our AgCareers.com and CareersInFood.com job boards, we have an increasingly international offering in the agriculture and food industries."

The sale took effect on June 1st 2016. Stuart Goodinson is the Managing Director. John Davies, who founded De Lacy, will remain working closely with the company as a consultant to the business. Stuart says; "I believe the acquisition by AgCareers.com Canada provides additional products and services for the benefit of our clients and candidates - plus growth opportunities for us, both in the UK and in international markets. This change will increase our resource pool and search capability to ensure an even greater selection of top quality candidates for our recruitment clients."

 

De Lacy Executive is the principal recruitment specialist in the Agricultural and Land Based Business sector operating in the UK and Internationally with regional, national and global clients. We have been awarded Preferred Supplier List status with a number of major organisations.

The company was formed in 2000 and our extensive industry knowledge enables us to successfully assist our clients with vacancies in all disciplines from sales and marketing to technical and operations and at all levels from graduate trainees to chief executives. Our team of nine includes 8 who are the offspring of farmers and 6 who are agricultural graduates. Our agricultural credential are second to none.

We offer information and frank and honest advice to clients and job seekers. Career guidance is a key part of our work with candidates. Our service is free to candidates.

The Key Points to Our Business

Consultancy - We act in a consultancy capacity, adding value by devising a recruitment plan relevant to each client and each vacancy and then proactively searching and selecting the best candidates for clients whilst offering career advice to candidates.

Proactive searching for candidates - We don't wait to see if we receive applications. We use our own database and others, search websites, "head hunt" plus advertise on the most effective job boards to build our contacts and boost applicant numbers.

Our vacancies extend from graduate trainee to managing director - from sales through to technical, marketing, operations and production to R & D management.

Our specialism extends from the agricultural supply trade (arable, livestock, machinery and equipment etc) to farm management, primary food and fresh produce, horticulture, equestrian, environment, renewable energy and a diverse range of Rural and Land-based Business vacancies.

Integrity and Confidentiality - De Lacy Executive is approved as a member of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, which oversees the UK's recruitment industry (REC Membership Number: 00082047) and is registered with the UK Information Commissioner's Office under the Data Protection Act.

Commitment - We are committed to the industry and try to give something back through sponsorship of events and scholarships.

Ambassadors - We act in a professional manner recognising that we act on behalf of our clients.

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