Consumer PR Intern (Spring 2025)

Account Director, Client Experience

Weber Shandwick is looking for a Director to join our Consumer team in our New York offices. 

We Are Seeking: 

We’re looking for a passionate brand enthusiast and strong Account Director to join our Consumer Practice, working across a few of America’s most iconic consumer health brands. You will be responsible for playing a critical role in leading breakthrough activations that earn attention and helping to create truly fun and unique social and influencer-led campaigns. In this role, you will be responsible for coaching, inspiring and motivating a high performing team while exceeding expectations for our clients.

In this role, you’ll be tasked with overseeing account programming while collaborating closely with our creative and influencer teams to advance programming and achieve business objectives both internally and externally. Fueled by your love of consumer-led programming and viral brand campaigns, we hope you’ll bring energy and enthusiasm to every client challenge while motivating colleagues around you.

What We Are Looking For: 

• A strong leader, motivated to thrive within a fully-integrated business environment
• A passion and curiosity for social and influencer and deep understanding the changing media landscape
• Can turn ideas into workable plans 
• Capacity to convey ownership of assigned projects to junior team members, track staffing allocations and hours efficiently
• Ability to solve client challenges
• Strong desire to mobilize and motivate teams 
• Can work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent oral and written business communication skills
• Strong financial acumen, ability to manage and track work against budgets cross-specialty
• Experience with invoicing and billing
• Can complete challenging projects within set parameters
• Exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors
• Commitment and dedication to the agency’s success as well as individual career
• Can anticipate client and team needs
• Attention to detail and quality
• Jumps in with solutions and “let’s try it” attitude
• Instills confidence with clients and colleagues

Basic Qualifications: 

•  At least 7 years of experience in agency, PR/Communications space
•  Experienced in account management across Integrated Media Strategy, Influencer Campaigns, and Media Relations, ideally within the consumer health or CPG space
•  Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism, PR, Business Management, or related field 

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit

NYC Salary range: $100,000 – $130,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Vice President, Social & Influencer Strategy

The Weber Shandwick Boston Office is currently seeking a Vice President for its Healthcare Practice, focused on corporate healthcare.

The VP is responsible for managing client and inter-agency relationships, playing a critical role in shaping the future and long-term success of our Health Practice.  This person in this role will also be a key leader in the Boston Health team. The VP will be responsible for all aspects of a client relationship and account team. Responsibilities include recommending programs and activities coordinating with client’s goals, effectively delegating projects, offering counsel to team members and allocating agency resources to match client budgets. VPs are also engaged with business development, strategic program planning and the development of creative concepts. The ideal candidate will have corporate communications experience with a proven track record of managing reputation campaigns within the healthcare space.

If you are excited about managing talented junior staff members, building strong relationships with clients, and taking your PR career to the next level on a team that’s dynamic, creative, smart and fun, then we want to talk to you.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Day-to-day client management and counsel
• Facilitating integration efforts across team and with other agency partners
• Driving communications support to solve reputational challenges
• Working across internal specialists including media, digital and creative
• Working with senior counselors on strategy and creative ideation

Qualifications:

• Strong client-relationship management/relationship-building
• Experience managing cross-functional teams
• Corporate health experience
• Can turn ideas into workable, integrated plans
• Capacity to convey ownership of assigned projects to junior team members
• Can problem-solve  
• Can mobilize and motivate teams
• Can work independently and as part of a team
• Excellent oral and written business communication skills
• Aptitude for financial analysis
• Can complete challenging projects within set parameters
• Commitment and dedication to the agency’s success as well as individual career
• Can anticipate client and team needs
• Attention to detail and quality
• Instills confidence with clients and colleagues

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefits

Boston Salary range: $138,000.00 – $170,000.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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Current Global is a global communications agency and creative powerhouse. Our footprint spans Asia, Europe, North and South America with strength and depth across corporate, consumer, health, and technology communications. Our dynamic team of brand marketing, public relations and digital veterans work with some of the world’s most iconic brands to develop highly strategic and creative campaigns, collaborating across our four talent communities: Client Experience, Insights, Content, and Integrated Media.

The best ideas come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds, and experiences, which is why we believe that diversity, equity, and inclusion are mission critical to building strong teams, cultivating great leaders, and creating an agency where everyone can do their best work. At Current Global, difference is valued, equality is a mandate, and inclusiveness is a reflex, not an initiative.  Our Accessible by Design commitment that every piece of communication we create will meet the highest accessibility standards to reach people with sight, hearing, speech, and cognitive impairments was recognized as a 2021 World Changing Idea by Fast Company.

We put humanity at the heart of everything we do, from our internal culture to the way we help clients understand that people want to connect with brands as real and human as they are. We offer exciting career opportunities for entrepreneurial leaders. Learn more at www.currentglobal.com.

POSITION PROFILE

Our next Intern is an enthusiastic, self-starter who can multi-task effectively and is highly organized.  This role is hands-on and affords a unique opportunity to learn the ins and outs of PR.  As an integral part of the team, core responsibilities of this role includes writing, researching, event planning, compiling media lists, pitching client stories to media and participating in creative brainstorms.  This person must possess a high level of flexibility, technical capacity and time management skills. Additionally, it is imperative that this person demonstrate a proactive approach and personal effectiveness, the ability to collaborate and to keep composure under pressure.

This exciting opportunity is available for those college students and recent college graduates who are available to work Monday through Friday from 9am until 6pm.  The internship is three (3) to six (6) months in duration and is paid at $20.00/hour. 

To apply, please visit https://currentglobal.com/careers/.

Chicago Salary range: $20.00 – $20.00

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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