Employment Opportunities

Fleishman-Hillard Inc., a leading global communications agency, is widely recognized for excellent client service and a strong company culture founded on teamwork, integrity, and personal commitment. We operate throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, South Africa, and Latin America through our 80 owned offices. For more than 60 years, the firm has developed an unsurpassed reputation for delivering a meaningful, positive, and measurable impact on our clients’ performance.

Fleishman-Hillard’s Sacramento office is seeking an energetic, self-starting PR Manager to join our thriving team. This is an exciting career opportunity for a PR/social media specialist with a passion for food and beverage related public relations and social media communications to work in a fast-paced practice.

Responsibilities:

Manage and execute consumer food and beverage related product promotions, ingredient programs, new product introductions, consumer nutrition education, and food safety/ security.
Contribute to the development of digital communication strategies for clients, and execute social media strategies and blogger outreach on behalf of clients.
Identify, cultivate and manage high-level relationships with food, wine and lifestyle bloggers, industry experts and influencers. Help shape client stories and messages, and actively pitch those communications to the blogger community with the goal of injecting the client into industry conversations.
Develop and edit high quality written materials, including media correspondence, client communications, bylines, recipes and nutrition abstracts.
Plan, conduct and oversee others in regional, national and trade media outreach.
Handle day-to-day project management and account administration.

Qualifications:

Ideal candidate will have 4-8 years of communications experience, with a strong working knowledge of the consumer food and nutrition space, preferably in an agency setting.
Experience across social media platforms such as microblogging (Twitter) and mobile location-based services (FourSquare) along with content sharing sites including Facebook, YouTube, Flickr and resources such as Quora or other online forums.
The ideal candidate is an active blogger and/or has active relationships with other bloggers and the online food/wine/lifestyle community in general. Must have experience cultivating relationships with bloggers on the basis of trust, integrity and accessibility.
Proven understanding of business, consumer and lifestyle media, and well-developed-skills in building and maintaining traditional and digital media relationships. A demonstrated hands-on media approach is required.
Excellent writing abilities with experience in all forms of written communication.
Strong presentation skills with ability to interact with client on a day-to-day basis.
Ideal candidate must be energetic, a self-starter and problem solver; gets things moving, keeps them on track, and understands how to switch gears when needed.
Bachelor’s degree in communications, journalism, public relations, nutrition, or a related field.

Fleishman-Hillard’s reputation for quality, creativity, and results is the foundation of our distinguished status in the industry. We offer a competitive salary and superb benefits including medical/dental/vision, life/disability insurance, paid holidays, and a 401(k) plan with a significant company match.

About Fleishman-Hillard
Fleishman-Hillard Inc., one of the world’s leading strategic communications firms, has built its reputation on creating integrated solutions that deliver what its clients value most: meaningful, positive and measurable impact on the performance of their organizations. The firm is widely recognized for excellent client service and a strong company culture founded on teamwork, integrity and personal commitment. Based in St. Louis, the firm operates throughout North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Latin America through its 80 owned offices. For more information, visit the Fleishman-Hillard website at www.fleishmanhillard.com

Fleishman-Hillard is a part of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) (www.omnicomgroup.com). Omnicom is a leading global advertising, marketing and corporate communications company. Omnicom’s branded networks and numerous specialty firms provide advertising, strategic media planning and buying, interactive, direct and promotional marketing, public relations and other specialty communications services to more than 5,000 clients in more than 100 countries.

Fleishman-Hillard is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. M/F/D/V.

Location:
300 Capitol Mall
Suite 1100
Sacramento, CA 95814

To apply, contact:
Dan Barber
(916) 441-7606
dan.barber@fleishman.com
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