Vice President, Integrated Project Management

Los Angeles, California, United States

Published

05/16/2025

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Weber Shandwick seeks an experienced VP of Client Operations & Integrated Project Management to join our West Project Management team.  

 

Responsibilities:

  • Serve as strategic operations lead across major consumer, tech, and healthcare accounts, demonstrating autonomy and strong decision-making skills.
  • Cultivate and maintain strategic relationships with internal account leaders, procurement and operations teams across regions.
  • Champion consistency in operational and project management practices, driving agency and client-side efficiencies, facilitating effective team integration, and establishing robust operational systems.
  • Collaborate with diverse internal and client stakeholder teams to establish efficient and effective ways of working.
  • Proactively mitigate and creatively resolve emerging issues and risks, sharing insights and opportunities for improvement with the extended project management team.
  • Mentor and guide a team of project managers, continuously evaluating talent, resource needs, and assignments, optimizing the operational and project management infrastructure to support business growth.
  • Partner with the client finance team to continuously assess the financial health of the portfolio, reporting to leadership and ensuring adherence to financial guidelines, including consistent scoping practices.
  • Design and implement processes, templates, tools, and guidelines to optimize and elevate account/portfolio operations.
  • Possess a comprehensive understanding of the production processes behind digital, social, content, media, and public relations campaigns.

 

 

Requirements:

  • 10+ years of Project Management or Client/Portfolio Operations Experience.
  • Strong financial management skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong experience with scoping, development of budgets and schedules for complex programs with multiple workstreams.

 

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/Washington Salary range: $130,000 – $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, 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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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.