Coordinator, Resource Management

Weber Shandwick’s Capital Markets team is seeking a summer intern to work across a range of financial clients. This is a full-time (40 hours/week), paid internship that will start in June and go through August. This role is hybrid out of our NYC office.

 

What you’ll do all day: 

• Create: Craft written communications including media materials and compelling social content 
• Research: Analyze brands using various resources
• Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
• Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc.
• Monitor: Track brands in traditional and social media 

 

What we’re looking for in a candidate: 

• Thinking: Do it out of the box. Actually, it’s best if you’re wholly unfamiliar with the concept of boxes
• Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly 
• Digital: Know all the old school and the latest social media platforms, what brands are doing on them and what they should do next
• 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, Quid, and/or LexisNexis a plus
• Dynamic: You must be able to work in a fast-paced agency environment and juggle tasks
• Spark: Understand what sets you apart

 

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
• A possible career: Internships have the possibility of growing into a full-time position
• A paycheck! Interns are paid hourly 

 

Requirements: 

• Must be available to work 40 hours a week starting June 2024

NYC 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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Associate Creative Director/Art

Weber Shandwick is looking for an Associate Creative Director with an earned and social first lens to lead and support the Creative leads in guiding, managing and refining the development of creative work from concept to production.

 

Your daily challenge is to help realize the creative vision as a manager, creator, and mentor on a variety of projects, ranging from large-scale integrated campaigns to channel-specific and socially driven content activations.

 

We’re seeking someone who is a highly conceptual problem solver, an experienced presenter of ideas, a builder of strong client relationships, and a key member of your working team, who will help us convey our clients’ messaging in ways that can breakthrough in culture.  

 

You’ll have the chance to create award-winning work for national and global brands through earned, social, and traditional media for clients across different health categories and therapeutic areas. In addition, you will focus on elevating the current creative work from the junior team, while pushing for the highest quality thinking, craft and execution for new projects as well as with new business.

 

You will work closely with the Chief Creative Officer and partner creative leads daily. You will also collaborate closely with the planning and media teams on ideas, and will manage the work with resourcing, project management, production, and client leaders to help propel the work forward and grow our business. 

 

 

RESPONSIBILITIES 

 

• Develop and execute ideas with culture and news worthiness at its center.
• Lead, manage and execute work with your CD, CCO and partner creative leads over a range of consumer and wellness brands.
• Develop and deliver creative solutions that strengthen clients’ market distinction and leadership position.  
• Generate innovative, world-class, and earned first creative thinking across channels.
• Guide, teach and mentor junior members of the creative team in further developing ideas.  
• Promote continual creative improvement and actively contribute to a culture of innovation, excellence, and accountability.  
• Lead concept, creative development, and presentation of new business development efforts  
• Continually develop practices and processes to inspire, innovate, and harness new ways of thinking. 
• Oversee projects from concept to completion in addition to being a hands-on creative
• Create production-ready designs, campaigns and layouts
• Establish the look/tone/feel for campaigns, social channels and new business needs
• Convey ideas through well-designed presentations and idea boards
• Translate content ideas into storyboards, shot lists, casting specs, set and wardrobe recommendations, etc.
• Attend shoots to ensure all the visual components are captured
• Review rough cuts and convey clear, actionable feedback to editors and producers
• Incorporate feedback from Creative Directors, teammates and clients with precision and a positive attitude.

 

 

 

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS 

• A strong portfolio of work showcasing social and earned first thinking.
• Strong knowledge of marketing, PR, creative development, campaign and brand development, digital marketing, and the creative process    
• 5-7 years of experience with several years’ experience managing creative team members
• Strong ability to provide clear creative direction and provide timely, helpful feedback to improve creative processes and to keep work on budget and schedule.  
• Resilient mindset, a cheerful and positive attitude, and respect for others 
• Ability to familiarize yourself quickly with the client’s brand standards.
• Comfort with juggling multiple projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work quickly, efficiently and accurately with Adobe Creative Suite programs (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation tools such as PowerPoint
• Must be self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized and deadline-driven
• Knowledgeable about emerging media, trends and philosophies in design, technology, social media, storytelling and engagement
• Strong presentation skills and communication abilities, both internal and client-facing  
• Ability to prioritize work and resources across engagements based on short and long-term needs. 
• The ability to concept across a broad range of media, in a variety of tones and voices. 
• Resilient mindset, a cheerful and positive attitude, and respect for others 
• A willingness to push creative boundaries. 
• Bonus skills: UX/UI, animation, illustration, photography, retouching, content creation, videography, editorial design

 

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: $115,000 – $150,000

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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Who We Are

United Minds is a global change consultancy that helps Fortune 500 clients transform their organizations, with a particular focus on the people side of change.

What Makes Us Different

At United Minds, our purpose is to make business more human – because we believe our collective futures depend on a human-powered world. We do this by helping leaders decide, design, develop and drive the future of their organization in partnership with people, and for people, using business intelligence to inform human-centered change experiences.

Partnering with some of the world’s biggest organizations, we deliver impactful, enduring change. Our core services include organizational transformation (M&A, spinoffs, restructures, marketing and digital transformation), leadership alignment, talent strategy development, culture change and employee experience. 

Our values – Big Thinking; Little Details; Giant Heart – inform our work… and the way we work with our client partners. We thrive on bringing original ideas to the table but know this only comes alive in the details. And most importantly, we do this with our whole heart – giving ourselves permission to care for each other, for the work, for our clients and ourselves.

What’s more, as part of The Weber Shandwick Collective, we’re able to tap into award-winning creative capabilities, the latest in AI thinking, and research, data and analytics to supercharge our solutions for clients.

Our Growth Ambition

We have big, bold growth ambitions at UM. And in a world defined by “extreme change”, we’re uniquely positioned to help our clients navigate the myriad of challenges they face. Our agile, innovation-first mindset means we are constantly incubating new offerings such as stakeholder fluency and narrative intelligence to ensure we’re as future-oriented as the companies we propel forward.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Consultant to join our North America team who can lead client-consulting projects, contribute to thought leadership, and participate in new business. 

Responsibilities

Client Solutions and Team Lead

• Owns daily client lead relationship, demonstrating a bias for delivering strategic POVs and inspiring confidence that business objectives and challenges are understood
• In partnership with senior leaders, oversee development of strategic recommendations on change management, organizational culture and and/or employee engagement projects, requiring knowledge of change management processes and principles, with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Understands the end-to-end methodologies across the core suite of UM offerings and, as such, when to pull in senior leaders or specialists from other practices
• Establishes internal review and quality control mechanisms to guarantee client satisfaction with deliverables
• Ability to share insights, distill findings, and trends with clients and teams to mobilize, develop and motivate live in meetings
• Where appropriate, act as a main day-to-day contact for a cross functional team, working with other practices in the Weber Shandwick Collective, to drive holistic solutions for our clients

Account Management Expert

• Partner with Senior Principals and Principals to design the project team structure and organically grow the business – identifying new opportunities and proactively developing client relationships
• Effectively “manages up,” proactively seeking out senior input and counsel when needed rather than waiting for senior team members to check in
• Tracks and reports revenue by account to Finance and Leadership for revenue recognition and forecasting
• Drive creation, approval and management of SOWs and project budgets
• Identify resourcing needs/gaps/opportunities to solve with UM’s VP, Operations

Talent and Culture Cultivator

• Exemplify our values of Big Thinking, Little Details and Giant Heart, and bringing them to life into relationships with clients and colleague at all levels
• Role models and fosters collaborative and supportive relationships with team members and counterparts in other practices
• Integrate junior staff into workflow scenarios; possesses the ability to delegate tasks while remaining accountable for outcomes
• Supervise junior staff by motivating, coaching, consistently providing feedback

Growth Enabler

• Drives and/or contributes to development of new business response (depending on scale/scope of opportunity)
• Helps plan and participate in pitch meetings, demonstrating ability to confidently present UM capabilities
• Contribute to thought leadership and offering development

Our Ideal Candidate

• At least 8-10 years’ of consulting experience working in human capital and organizational transformation in large, complex, multinational organizations.

• Excellent team and client management skills
• Ability to professionally interface with and influence clients
• Embraces ambiguity and approaches challenges with curiosity, applying past experiences but not limiting solutions to them, to continuously improve and innovate what we do for clients and our own business alike
• Emphasizes attention to detail and quality, while working with a sense of urgency
• Shows exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors
• Exhibits a strong commitment to agency and personal growth
• Master’s Degree in Organizational Development or related field, and/or change management certification such as Prosci are a plus

 

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: $145,000 – $180,000

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.

United Minds is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. United Minds 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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