Healthcare PR Intern

What You Will Be Doing:

Our team is seeking a Manager with client experience and healthcare communications expertise to serve as a counselor to our clients for one of our largest and fastest growing accounts. As a Manager, you will be responsible for developing and executing strategic integrated communications programs, supporting overall strategy, and advising healthcare clients. You will be a conceptual thinker with exceptional organizational and prioritization skills.

In addition, you should have an agency background in healthcare communications with experience working on pharmaceutical products and/or disease education programs including FDA approvals, as well as knowledge of the media landscape and considerations in this space. The ideal candidate will have broad interest in the full remit of healthcare communications, including social/digital, earned media, data and regulatory milestones, and unbranded disease awareness programming. Additionally, the ideal candidate will have a specific interest or experience in patient and healthcare professional influencer and/or celebrity campaigns.

 

Other responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Manage account team implementation of agreed-upon programs, ensuring quality standards are met and desired results are delivered on-budget
• Lead project management, ensuring all activities are moving forward and are within deadlines
• Coordinate among interdisciplinary team of research, scientific communications, creative, digital and media strategists
• Develop a range of external and media materials including press releases, Q&As, key message documents, pitches, media monitoring flags, social media content, etc.
• Manage client status reports, including materials trackers, media trackers, and website analytics trackers.
• Manage event and activation logistics in a variety of settings
• Set and meet campaign measurement and evaluation criteria in partnership with analytics
• Identify training and development needs of junior staff and provide opportunities that enable staff members to reach their full potential
• Assist in financial management for clients, including development of invoices and activity reports

 

 What We Are Looking For:

• Experience working on multi-disciplinary (holistic) healthcare communication initiatives, ideally including disease education campaigns and product launches
• Familiarity with data and regulatory milestone communications
• Fluency and/or familiarity with earned, digital and social media
• Strong understanding of the relationship between traditional public relations and the use of current online/digital technology and social media
• Strong budgeting and financial management skills
• Experience with clients and accounts that are measurement and evaluation driven
• Experience mentoring junior team members
• Strong presentation skills, poise, and professionalism

Basic Qualifications

• At least 4 years’ experience in public relations at an agency or corporate in-house (healthcare experience required)
• The ability to manage multiple projects at various stages simultaneously
• Be a self-starter who works well within a highly collaborative, multi-disciplinary team
• BA or BS in Public Relations, Communications, or in a 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

California Salary range: $82,000 – $92,000

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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Weber Shandwick is looking for a Senior Manager to join our Consumer team in our New York office.

We Are Seeking:

We’re looking for a strong, motivated, hard-working and curious Senior Manager to join our Consumer Practice, working across lifestyle and CPG brands. You will spearhead high profile, award-worthy, earned-driven integrated activations and productions. You will work with high profile celebrity talent, influencers and red-carpet events. You will be responsible for managing client and inter-agency relationships, playing a critical role in determining the future and long-term success of our Consumer Practice. You will be responsible for all aspects of a client relationship and account team. You will supervise big pieces of business with multiple work streams and team members.

Other 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. You will also be engaged with business development, strategic program planning, analytics, media relations and the development and execution of creative concepts. Ideally, you will have agency or consulting experience in the Consumer communications or beauty/lifestyle space.

 

What We Are Looking For:

•         Can turn ideas into workable plans and presentations
•         Capacity to convey ownership of assigned projects to junior team members
•         Can solve conflict
•         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
•         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
•         Instills confidence with clients and colleagues

 

Basic Qualifications:

•         At least 6-8 years’ experience in agency, PR/Communications space
•         Experienced in Integrated Media Strategy and Media Relations, ideally within the consumer or CPG space
•         Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, 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: $85,000 – $100,000

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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Corporate PR Intern

Weber Shandwick is seeking a fall intern to work on a range of corporate and tech clients. This is a full-time (40 hours/week), hybrid, paid internship.

From creative brainstorming to day-to-day execution, Weber Shandwick’s interns become an important part of a talented team that generates groundbreaking, award-winning work. During the internship, you’ll work on campaigns for iconic brands and companies technology and corporate reputation spaces that you likely encounter every single day. 

What’s in it for you? Our interns will earn practical experience as fully integrated members of account teams and will receive coaching from Weber Shandwick colleagues to help advance your career goals.  

  

More about the position:  

What you’ll do all day: 

• Create: Craft written communications including media materials, compelling social content, memos, and risk assessments 

• Research: Examine brands, industry trends, and various issues using various resources 

• Analyze: Answer questions, provide insights, and propose recommendations using quantitative and qualitative data 

• Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams 

• Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc. 

• Monitor: Track brands and issues in traditional and social media and analyze conversations; draft reports summarizing conversation to inform client strategies 

  

What we’re looking for from you: 

• Thinking: Do it out of the box. Look for holistic and innovative ways to meet needs and challenges. Foster a curious mind and ask thoughtful questions 

• Communication: Speak, write, and edit succinctly 

• Digital: Know digital platforms (tech, email, CRM, social, etc.), what brands are doing with them and best practices 

• Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires, and multi-task. Work fast and work well 

• Detail-Oriented: Attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work are critical 

• Technical: Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite. Familiarity with platforms like Cision, Muckrack, Meltwater, Talkwalker, Brandwatch, and/or Quid are a plus 

• Dynamic: You must be able to work in a fast-paced agency environment and juggle multiple time-sensitive tasks 

• Spark: Understand what sets you apart and what motivates you 

  

What you’ll get from us: 

• Buddy: All new hires are paired with a buddy dedicated to making your time with us amazing 

• Built-in mentorship: You’ll be invited to panels and workshops to learn from the greatest in the industry, as well as receive mentoring and guidance from your direct manager 

• A possible career: Internships have the possibility of growing into a full-time position 

• A paycheck: Interns are paid hourly  

  

Requirements:   

• The ideal candidate must be a college graduate by the start of the internship or have demonstrated transferrable skills 

• Must be available to work 40 hours a week

 

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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