Associate, Client Experience (Technology)

Senior Associate / Manager – Media Relations & Policy Communications 

Location: Brussels 
Team: Corporate Communications 

 

About us 

Weber Shandwick Brussels is seeking a Senior Associate or Manager to join our Corporate Communications team, with a focus on media relations and policy communications. This is a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of corporate reputation, public affairs, and strategic communications within a dynamic, international environment. 

We’re a passionate and diverse team that protects and promotes global brands and institutions – and has fun while doing it. If you thrive on storytelling, media strategy, and navigating the fast-paced world of policy and reputation, we’d love to hear from you. 

 

About the Role 

You’ll be responsible for developing and executing integrated communications strategies that drive earned media coverage, shape policy narratives, and build executive visibility. You’ll work across sectors including technology, sustainability, healthcare, energy, and more, supporting clients with both corporate and policy-focused communications. 

This role is ideal for someone with 3–5 years of experience in communications, public affairs, or media relations, who is ready to take the next step in their career and contribute to high-impact campaigns. 

 

Key Responsibilities 

• Support media relations and policy communications programs for major local and global clients. 

• Develop and pitch compelling story angles to Brussels and EU policy media, influencers, and content creators. 

• Monitor news cycles, policy developments, and cultural trends to identify opportunities and risks for clients. 

• Draft and edit media materials, messaging frameworks, and integrated communications plans. 

• Build and maintain strong relationships with journalists, analysts, and third-party stakeholders. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (strategy, creative, digital, analytics) to deliver integrated campaigns. 

• Support issues and crisis communications, including strategic messaging and media monitoring. 

• Mentor junior team members and contribute to team development and agency growth. 

• Participate in new business efforts and proposal development. 

 

What We’re Looking For 

• 3–5 years of experience in communications, public affairs, or media relations, ideally in an agency or in-house setting. 

• Proven success in media relations, story development, and pitching, especially within the Brussels/EU media landscape. 

• Strong understanding of policy communications, particularly in sectors like technology, telecoms, sustainability, or healthcare. 

• Excellent writing, editing, and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messages to different audiences. 

• Digitally savvy, with a strategic approach to using traditional, digital, and social media. 

• A proactive, solutions-oriented mindset and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments. 

• Strong project management and organizational skills. 

• Bilingual proficiency in English; other languages are a plus. 

We are seeking a skilled Manager, with min 5 years experience in tech communications to join our dynamic team in Seoul. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing client accounts, developing and executing communication strategies, and building strong relationships with key stakeholders. Our team in Korea work with some of the largest international and local businesses and this is a great opportunity for someone wanting to get more experience working on large-scale global communications projects with global stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Media and Communications

• Develop and implement strategic communication plans that align with clients’ business objectives
• Responsible for handling issues and crisis management for clients
• Manage all aspects of client projects, including timelines, budgets, and deliverables
• Act as key contact for internal account staff to address issues and queries
• Train and motivate team members
• Manage account staff group profitability
• Contribute to performance reviews
• Create opportunities for team members to enhance growth with agency
• Attend account reviews and staff meetings – provide ongoing communications and feedback
• Ensure account team members adhere to agency time reporting and financial guidelines
• Involved in staffing of team including reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates and product of client
• Deal with the crisis and major issue management

 

Client 

• Serve as the primary day-to-day point of contact for assigned client accounts
• Keep client programs on schedule and ensure all deadliness are met
• Earn the confidence of mid-to-senior level client contacts and other executives with a client’s organization
• Plan and implement programs; forecast and manage budgets, profitability and receivables for new and existing clients
• Proactively handle client problems quickly and adeptly
• Contribute to and promote business development by counseling clients
• Develop and deliver client presentations
• Actively participate in new business initiatives including taking a lead role in research and scoping of new business opportunities as requested.
• Generate new business from existing clients and new clients by developing programs, making credentials presentations, presenting program recommendations and pursuing new business leads

Team Management

• Act as key contact for internal account staff to address issues and queries
• Train and motivate team members
• Manage account staff group profitability
• Contribute to performance reviews
• Create opportunities for team members to enhance growth with agency
• Attend account reviews and staff meetings – provide ongoing communications and feedback
• Ensure account team members adhere to agency time reporting and financial guidelines
• Involved in staffing of team including reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates and product of client
• Deal with the crisis and major issue management

 

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field
• 5-8 years of experience in PR account management, preferably in corporate communications
• Proven ability to develop and execute strategic communication plans
• Strong relationship-building skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
• Knowledge of media relations and experience pitching to journalists
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team in a fast-paced environment
• Exceptional presentation and communication skills that bring your ideas to life through explanations that engage and excite internal and external audiences
• Flawless attention to detail with a proven ability to manage full project lifecycles from brief to delivery and measurement
• Enthusiasm for strategic planning, creative ideation, new business development and long-term client partnerships
• Understand the elements that make a story exciting, what brands are doing in the press and on social platforms, and what they should do next
• A team player who can collaborate with a range of people to devise the best approach to the work in hand and bring your team along with you throughout the journey
• Fluency in English and Korean is essential
• Immediate availability is preferred
• Proficiency in MS Office and PR software tools
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

 

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Note from the team

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Weber Shandwick is committed to building a culture where all employees are seen as equal, are respected and where all opinions are heard. We take pride in our inclusive hiring, as well as our diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

Personal data held by Weber Shandwick relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Due to the large number of applications received, we apologize if we are unable to provide a response or feedback on unsuccessful applications. We appreciate the time taken to apply for the role and your recent interest in Weber Shandwick.

 

 

OVERVIEW

Part of The Weber Shandwick Collective (TWSC), we’re the earned-first global communications agency, led by world-class strategic thinkers and creative activators. We create shared and sustainable value for businesses, people, and society. We energise the right mix of talent, using the right platforms and latest technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses.

Our game-changing work is recognised by some of the most prestigious industry awards bodies, and we have won more than 135 Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. We’re also PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year as well as being listed on the Ad Age A-List 2024 and Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies 2024.

 

 

Who We Are Looking For

You are highly energetic, ambitious, passionate, and thrive in a fast-paced working environment. You are an accomplished multitasker and are calm in the face of the unexpected.

You are hungry for success, have a ‘can-do’ attitude, innovative in the work you produce, creative in your ways of thinking and collaborative in your ways of working.

If you are a people person, and have a sense of humour, we want to talk to you!

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Build, nurture and expand client relationships, serving as a trusted resource and advisor
• Lead the development of strategies as well as cross-community implementation activities for PR and communication programs for client brands and projects
• Drive development of tactical plans, translating strategies into tactics; ensure team deliverables align with strategies
• Own responsibilities for executional leadership of multiple client programs, budgets, timeline and plans
• Lead the production of high quality, client-ready work, including but not limited to project strategies and plans, communications proposals, media and influencer engagement tactics, press releases, backgrounders, feature articles, reports, digital and social media content, etc.
• Keep apprised of clients’ brands, products, services, and market and industry developments – their key issues, competitive situation and industry trends
• Facilitate cross-functional team integration by working closely with team members from a variety of functional groups – client experience, creative, data & analytics, planning etc.
• Own responsibilities for executional leadership of multiple client programs, budgets, timeline and plans
• Manage ongoing team resources to ensure successful delivery of client work
• Anticipate and proactively offer solutions to senior team leadership for executional issues specific to assigned programs
• Manage the development of new business proposals and presentations
• Build and own productive relationships with multiple client stakeholders, interagency teams, clients’ business partner organizations and a diverse array of agency colleagues
• Demonstrate financial acumen in the areas of budgeting, billing and staffing
• Mentor and train junior team members

 

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in sustainability communications, public relations, or corporate communications, preferably in a consultancy or agency setting
• Knowledge of the communications and sustainability industry
• Seasoned strategic media relations experience and contacts
• Excellent writer and communicator
• Strategic thinking and planning skills with the ability to solve business problems through innovative communications solutions
• Experience in managing integrated communications campaigns and interest in pushing the boundaries in the art of communications
• Proven project management experience, able to multitask in a fast-paced environment and takes pride in delivering high quality work that meet client objectives
• Strong interest and knowledge in sustainability and ESG-related issues and policies
• A good team player with experience in managing a team

 

 

Note from the team

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Weber Shandwick is committed to building a culture where all employees are seen as equal, are respected and where all opinions are heard. We take pride in our inclusive hiring, as well as our diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

Personal data held by Weber Shandwick relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Due to the large number of applications received, we apologize if we are unable to provide a response or feedback on unsuccessful applications. We appreciate the time taken to apply for the role and your recent interest in Weber Shandwick.