Assistant Publicist – Music & Brands

Premier is Europe’s leading specialist integrated agency for entertainment, arts and culture.
For more than 20 years our business has used its unrivalled influence, creativity and network to help its clients across TV, film, gaming, sport, live events and music bring fans closer to the things they love.

Our client roster is a who’s who of the most influential businesses in entertainment and incudes Activision, Amazon, Disney, EA, Fender, Live Nation, Netflix, Paramount, Sky, Sony, Universal and Warner Bros. We are looking for someone wanting to take their first step in their public relations career to join our consumer entertainment department, with a focus on our music and brands clients.

Job function

To be a part of the account team working across a range of consumer entertainment clients. 

Key tasks (Client Accounts)

• Acquire and maintain a detailed knowledge of all the accounts you are across
• Distribute to clients/team director and archive daily press cuttings
• Collate client reports as required
• Participate in brainstorms for campaigns and undertake research for proposals
• Distribute press releases/assets and carry out media sell-ins as directed by the account team to secure news, previews, reviews, competitions and features
• Set up and follow through with talent interviews as directed
• Keep abreast of entertainment, arts, consumer, music media personnel moves/changes and update database accordingly (including arts/consumer/entertainment/music reporters, listings editors, picture editors, influencers, bloggers, website editors etc)
• Develop and maintain a broad knowledge – and take an active interest in – Entertainment / Consumer Brands / Arts / Music industries (i.e., monitoring media)
• Develop key contacts across traditional media, websites and social channels (including influencers) and acquire up to date knowledge of deadlines and PR feature opportunities
• Proactively manage feature placements for clients, and all previews/listings, reviews and competition placements on accounts
• Pro-actively foster relationships with third parties to assist in creating campaigns
• Write press materials to a level ready to submit for client approval (requiring minimal input from senior team)
• Attend and contribute to client meetings

Key tasks (Office Management support)

• Deal or forward emails and enquiries (in other team members’ absence) as appropriate

Key tasks (Company-wide)

• Follow all house systems and styles
• Ensure the contact database is up to date and inform all staff of any key media changes
• Occasional Premier Group assistance as requested by Directors

To apply please send your CV and covering letter, outlining how you meet the above criteria, to jobs@premiercomms.com with reference/subject line ‘Assistant Publicist – Music & Brands’ as soon as possible.

We do read every CV sent in but can only respond to those that seem to be a good fit. We wish everyone good luck with their job search.