Manager - Senior Manager, Healthcare

Seoul, South Korea

Published

02/18/2025

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Weber Shandwick Korea is seeking a highly motivated individual who is passionate about data-driven communication strategy and excels in fast-paced, dynamic environments. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in supporting our global and domestic pharmaceutical clients in various communications-related projects.

As a Manager / Senior Manager, you will be an integral contributor to our Healthcare team, working hands-on with our globally known pharmaceutical and healthcare clients to ensure a smooth and positive client experience.

 

What You Will Do:

  • Develop a strong understanding of the client’s business and target audiences and work collaboratively with strategists and creative team members to deliver solutions that meet program objectives;
  • Develop strategic messaging for clients and support creation of media plans and proposals that take an integrated approach to driving awareness with target audiences both domestically and globally;
  • Foster meaningful relationships with health media reporters, and facilitate interviews and meetings for client-side spokespeople with media liaisons;
  • Create engaging and eye-grabbing story ideas and topic angles, oversee team in developing media materials, and pitch media to land earned coverage;
  • Collaborate with the internal digital team to develop a digital social media strategy;
  • Manage existing client relationships and develop potential for new clients to grow the healthcare team business;
  • Support client spokesperson training;
  • Compose reports on campaign results;
  • Determine program KPIs and write reports on PR activities.

 

What You Will Need:

  • Fluent Korean (Ability to do business smoothly in Korean);
  • Minimum of 5 years’ experience in the PR / Communications industry, ideally in an agency environment
  • Experience executing multi-channel communications strategies and tactics
  • Strong media relations (magazines, news networks, TV channels, etc.) skills;

 

Preferred Experience:

  • English Proficiency (our Healthcare team consultants currently utilise Korean on a day-to-day basis, but if you can bring English or other languages to the team, it is a huge plus for us!);
  • Experience in Healthcare Industry (Pharmaceutical / Medical / Medtech / Clinical Research / Pharmaceutical Sales / Cosmetics, etc.);

 

What We Look For:

  • Highly motivated individuals with a passion for driving cultural change through Communications;
  • Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills;
  • A team-player attitude and ability to think creatively;
  • Passion, ownership, and a strong sense of responsibility;
  • Creative and innovative individuals with a natural sense of curiosity.

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.

 

※ Notice on the Return of Job Application Documents

1. This notice is in accordance with Article 11, Paragraph 6 of the Act on the Fairness of Recruitment Procedures, which states that job applicants, excluding the final successful candidates, may request the return of previously submitted recruitment documents.

2. However, if the documents were submitted via the website or email, or if the applicant submitted them voluntarily without the company’s request, they cannot claim for return. And if the documents are destroyed due to natural disasters or other reasons not attributable to the Company, the Company shall be deemed to have fulfilled its obligation to return the documents.

3. The company will keep the recruitment documents for 30 days from the date of completion of employment in preparation for the return request of the job seeker, and if the company does not request the return of the recruitment documents until then, all the recruitment documents will be destroyed without delay in accordance with the Personal Information Protection Act.

For any other inquiries related to job application documents, please contact us via the following email.

  ※ Email: RecruitKR@webershandwick.com

4. If any false information is found in the job application documents, the job offer may be cancelled even after the final hiring decision.

#LI-YL1

 

 

We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.

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