€250k investment creates social media jobs in Cork

Communications agency H+A Marketing+PR create 6 social media jobs in Cork

Communications agency H+A Marketing+PR is to create six new social media jobs as part of a two-year €250,000 investment.

The company already employs 38 people at its Cork and Galway offices. The agency specialises in fully integrated communications and handles a broad mix of services including marketing, PR, advertising, media planning, graphic design, web and increasingly social media management on behalf of local, national and international clients.

Some of H+A Marketing+PR customers include Laya Healthcare, Unilever Food Solutions, Kraft Foods Ireland, Ford, Barry Group and 48 Mobile.

The new jobs in Cork will be created as part of the new social media department and will be headed by Dara O’Donovan, Social Media Marketing Manager, who is a graduate of UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. The team was being set up as a direct response to the explosion the company and its clients have seen in social media.

“Our team is an uber-savvy group of digital natives who live, eat and breathe social media for our clients. It’s our mission to capture online conversations, build buzz, drive talkability and ultimately, turn fans into fanatics. We’re excited about working with a diverse mix of new brands this year and helping them unlock their potential in this space.”

Dara O’Donovan (Social Media Marketing Manager)

Community managers Cian O’Regan and Sean Lucey will provide key support in the development of the H+A Social Media Department. Cian O’Regan was twice nominated at the Irish Web Awards and co-organised World Social Media Day 2012, specialises in new fan and follower growth. While Sean Lucey, a Graduate in MA in Marketing, Consumption and Society oversees the monitoring of all social media platforms for clients, their competitors and industries.

Ken Murphy

(Director) BE (Hons), CPIM – Cork Office

Ken Murphy graduated from University College Cork in 1987 with an Electrical Engineering degree before moving to the US as a Network Design Engineer with BellSouth Corporation. His return to Ireland in 1989 heralded a career which concentrated on the multinational sector, and involved working with companies such as Apple Computer, Cabletron, FMC Automotive, Moog, General Semiconductor and Technicolor.

Ken is a specialist in quality management, purchasing, logistics and supply chain management. He has significant expertise and experience in managing the changing demands of the global media, electronics and automotive sectors at operational and project management levels.

Ken leads CareerWise Recruitment’s Cork operations. He has served on local and national committees of IPICS (The Supply Chain Management Institute), CIPD, the Cork Electronics Industry Association (CEIA), and has completed a three-year term as Chair of the UCC Alumni Board.

Ken has recently been elected as a Director of the Cork Chamber for a four year term to help promote business and drive policy objectives for the Cork Region

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