Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Published
02/28/2025
SVP, Corpsumer Strategic Planning
The SVP of Strategic Planning will be the point person for “Corpsumer” work within TWSC Central market. COrpsumer reflecting the need to lead client and team partnership on relationships that need both corporate and consumer best-in-class work of a connected strategic vision and plan. This person will work to architect powerful business driving communications strategies in partnership with region and NA leadership. The ideal candidate is an experienced insightful thinker who immerses themselves in a category, loves to understand what drives consumers to act and is relentless about finding unexpected insights to drive communications forward. In this role, you will be involved in all elements of brand strategy including creating and analyzing data and market trends, shaping market research, and developing impactful insights and strategies that solve brand challenges.
Responsibilities:
- Leads businesses with powerful strategic positioning that stretches to both consumer and corporate stakeholders
- Guides client and internal integration teams to efficiently solve problems and collaborate together effectively
- Someone who has led powerful earned strategies with internal and client facing stakeholders. Ideas that are earned at the core but built to improve brand strategies.
- Acquires professional, mature presence in the team and client relationship, and shows strong presentation skills.
- Proactively identifies potential challenges with the research plan, creative brief, making recommendations for improvement prior to completion.
- Initiates and helps to execute strategic process, from research plan to creative brief, for approval from more senior leads. Co-leads client projects/ assignments.
- Mine data, research, and intelligence reports for insights and implications.
- Develop an immersive understanding of a product or brand’s market dynamics, customer mindset, competitive actions and industry trends.
- Derive and articulate insights that will drive behavior change.
- Cultivate strong relationships with staff, internal partners, and clients including counseling junior staff.
Experience Requirements:
- 10-15 years of experience in Corporate and Consumer strategies and best-in-class idea integration.
- Understanding of cultural brand strategy with familiarity of work within PR, digital and social media.
- Expertise in the marketing and communications industry.
- High level of comfort with research techniques and resources and insight generation.
- Demonstrated experience with analytics and analyzing data (not necessarily just pulling data but also manipulating it)
- Clear and compelling presentation skills.
- Agility in working style – demonstrated ability to work against tight timelines and to work collaboratively.
- Excellent verbal and written communication with the capability to construct and support arguments.
Chicago Salary Range: $162,000.00 – $200,000.00
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.
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, 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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Berlin, Germany
Werkstudent Public Affairs & Content Management (m/w/div)
Location: Berlin
Zur Verstärkung unseres Teams suchen wir eine:n Werkstudierende:n, die/der mit Interesse das politische Geschehen in Deutschland verfolgt, zwischen Bundes-, Landes- und kommunaler Ebene unterscheiden und zielgerichtet recherchieren kann sowie gern den Durchblick über politische Termine und Veranstaltungen bekommen möchte.
DEIN TEAM:
Das Public-Affairs-Team berät Unternehmen und Organisationen dabei, die Entwicklungen und Risiken einer zunehmend disruptiven Politik und Gesellschaft im Auge zu behalten und in ihre Kommunikation und strategischen Entscheidungen einzubeziehen. Wir unterstützen unsere Kund:innen darin, die Brücke zwischen gesellschaftspolitischen Anforderungen und Debatten zu schlagen sowie ihr politisches Netzwerk auszubauen.
DEINE AUFGABEN – DU…
- übernimmst Themen- und Hintergrundrecherchen sowie organisatorische Aufgaben.
- führst eigenständig fortlaufende politische und Medien-Monitorings durch und fertigst Reportings für verschiedene Themen an.
- arbeitest bei Stakeholder-Mappings mit.
- unterstützt bei der Konzeption und Umsetzung von nationalen und internationalen Projekten und Aufgaben im Bereich Public Affairs.
- wirst Teil des Redaktionsteams des Berliner Termindienstes, einem wöchentlich erscheinenden politischen Informationsdienst, der aktuell, kompakt und zuverlässig über die wichtigsten politischen Termine in der Republik informiert.
DAMIT PUNKTEST DU BEI UNS – DU…
- bist eingeschriebene:r Student:in in Studiengängen wie z.B. Politikwissenschaft, Geschichte, Journalistik, Kommunikationswissenschaft oder ähnliches.
- hast ein großes Interesse an politischen Themen, Prozessen und kennst das politische System in Deutschland.
- besitzt eine gute politische Allgemeinbildung und ein Gefühl für die Relevanz von politischen Formaten und Terminen.
- sprichst und schreibst sehr gut Deutsch und hast einen genauen Blick für Rechtsschreibung, Tipper und Formatierung. Du sprichst fließend Englisch.
- hast Freude daran investigativ in die Recherche zu gehen und dich proaktiv einzubringen.
- Nice to have: Erste Erfahrungen mit der Arbeit eines Content Management Systems oder alternativ großes Interesse daran.
DAS BIETEN WIR DIR:
- Internationales Arbeiten in einem innovativen, inspirierenden, weltweiten Agenturnetzwerk.
- Hybrides Arbeiten und flexible Arbeitszeitenregelung.
- Unbegrenzter Zugang zu LinkedIn Learning, damit du dich in genau den Bereichen weiterbilden kannst, die dich am meisten interessieren.
- Mental Health Initiativen wie die freie Nutzung der Headspace-App und unserer externen Mitarbeitendenberatung (EAP), mit der dir psychologische Expert:innen zu jeder Zeit zur Verfügung stehen.
- Zahlreiche Mitarbeiterrabatte bei ausgewählten Shopping-Partner:innen.
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Wir sind eine der weltweit führenden Kommunikationsagenturen mit Niederlassungen in über 80 Ländern. In Deutschland arbeiten 160 Kolleg:innen unabhängig von einer Practice- und Standortstruktur übergreifend in agilen Teams zusammen. Wir beraten unsere Kund:innen an den Schnittstellen von Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik umfassend und bieten je nach Problemstellung und Herausforderung individuell zusammengestellte Teams aus unseren Kompetenz- und Skill-Clustern.
Wir verpflichten uns zur Gleichberechtigung aller Mitarbeitenden und sorgen für ein diskriminierungs- und belästigungsfreies Arbeitsumfeld. Alle Einstellungsentscheidungen sind durch die Stellenanforderungen, die individuellen Qualifikationen und den geschäftlichen Bedarf begründet. Alle entsprechend qualifizierten Bewerber werden ungeachtet ihrer ethnischen Herkunft, ihrer Hautfarbe, ihrer Religion, ihres Geschlechtes, ihres Alters, ihrer sexuellen Orientierung, ihrer nationalen Herkunft oder einer Behinderung gleichermaßen für eine Anstellung berücksichtigt.
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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Vice President, Strategic Planning
Vice President, Strategic Planning (Washington, DC)
We are looking for a strategic leader who sees business problems from the eyes of real people, and uses data, keen cultural observation and experience to create strategies that will engage audiences and delivering measurable value. With an emphasis on developing compelling insights, this person will be an active member on two high-profile client teams and a large contributor to new business opportunities. They will be responsible for challenging conventional thought and providing a sound and fresh point-of-view for communications strategy and planning. Our ideal candidate should have experience building brand and creative strategies that deliver ideas across channels, tactics and content, and possess the ability to guide measurement that is aligned with strategy. Must enjoy the variety of working across a range of clients, from global brands to government agencies, and have experience driving strategy for social and influencer campaigns.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead and drive the quality of strategic output for two key clients, developing creative strategy to inform social, influencer and earned media campaigns within inter-agency teams.
- Create a culture of insight, ensuring strategic insights are embedded into our client delivery and that the broader agency is educated on brand and communication strategy fundamentals.
- Collaborate with CX leads to guide key clients and provide consistent thought leadership.
- Champion and enhance the methods by which teams uncover insights and measures results.
- Lead, motivate and grow a team of planners, analysts and subject matter experts.
- Serve as an opinion leader by sharing best practices, case studies and thought leadership.
QUALIFICATIONS
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, preferably at an agency.
- Experience in consumer health, legacy brands and global strategy stewardship a bonus.
- Understanding of digital campaigns (owned social, influencer) and earned activations is preferred.
- Persuasive presenter and speaker, able to create decks and tell a story based on data and hypothesis.
- Experience building, managing and mentoring a team.
- Self-motivated, fun, a quick study, entrepreneurial and endlessly curious.
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
Washington DC Salary range: $124,000 – $165,000
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, 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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