Senior Copywriter
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Published
10/09/2024
Senior Copywriter, Health
Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a Senior Copywriter, Health to join their growing creative team to work across several high-profile healthcare accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work on these accounts alongside a team of creative directors, art directors, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 5+ years of experience in the digital/social space and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented copywriter. Previous healthcare experience required.
Whether driving a big project like a multi-channel campaign or handling a real-time newsjacking opp, we need a nimble copywriter who consistently delivers exciting, culture-first ideas and writing across just about any platform. If there’s a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, we play in that space. We look for well-rounded, immersive creators who can tell a great story.
The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented art directors and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria:
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Help drive overall creative vision for client projects.
- Craft overall messaging direction while maintaining consistency.
- Ability to flex between short- and long-form copy including concept manifestos, digital/social copy, video script, pitches and a range of campaign support material.
- Provide mentorship of junior writers.
- Take direction and work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
- Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations that meet client objectives.
- Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
- Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years of copywriting experience in a related agency or department (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations)
- Prior healthcare/public health experience.
- Must have a portfolio.
- This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office two days per week.
- Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables
- Advanced knowledge of brand development, marketing/advertising, and the creative process
- Knowing what makes for compelling work – be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d thought to do that” envy.
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
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 proud to 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
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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Overview
The work involves writing period. We are looking for writers who are versatile enough to handle everything Web content, Writing for Social Media, Online marketing material, Mailers, brochures and film scripts. Ideation, conceptualization and visualization are an integral part of the work. Your role as a copywriter is to write with your thinking cap on.
You’ll be required to think, ideate, visualize and open your mind to execute campaigns & ideas on the digital platform with your team.
Responsibilities
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- Proactive participation in ideas with colleagues and senior managers to bring to live integrated campaigns.
- Having clear ideas of the competitors activities and the target audience
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- Amending, revising or redeveloping adverts or campaigns in response to feedback from the team and clients.
- Overseeing campaigns through the production stage to completion.
- Working on several campaigns at a time, sometimes under pressure and often to tight deadlines
- Liaising with production companies, photographers, typographers, designers and printers
- Keeping up to date with popular culture and trends
- Work closely as part of a multi-faceted team and maintain a close partnership account teams running the client commercial relationship.
Skills and expertise
- 0-1 years of experience, ideally involving extensive online exposure and social media campaigns.
- Demonstrable understanding of the online commercial publishing environment in India.
- A creative bent of mind with strong verbal, written and presentation skills – be bold; think fresh, weird and fun
- Exceptional client facing and communication skills.
- Team player with the ability to work with minimal supervision, under pressure and coordinating with large teams.
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- Ongoing development of new ideas, creative concepts, headlines, video scripts, social posts and various other forms of online/offline brand storytelling
- Presenting ideas and production-ready executions to internal and external stakeholders
- In all social media-specific concepts, be sure to understand various execution formats and incorporate creative/copy/layout best practices for various social media networks including Facebook, Instagram, X, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube
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CORE REQUIREMENTS
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- 4-5 years of copywriting experience in an agency or related field (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations)
- Must be self-motivated, hard working, well organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables
- Ongoing drive to understand emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in marketing, technology, interaction and social media
- Must have a portfolio (share anything that conveys the way you think or approach assignments, even if it was never produced; we like chicken scratches).
- Bonus Skills: blogging, journalism, social community management
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
- RRSP (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
- MyDays – Flexible time off
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave Policy
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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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.