Senior Vice President, Client Experience - Consumer

Weber Shandwick is seeking a spring intern to work across major consumer brands. This is a full-time (40 hours/week), paid internship that will start in January 2025. This role is hybrid out of our NYC office.

The Essentials

• Thinking: Intellectual curiosity and creativity is a must
• Storytelling: Understand the elements that make a story exciting and how to highlight them in what you read in the press and what you see on social media
• Communication: Speak, write and edit succinctly and compellingly
• Management: Meet deadlines, put out fires and multi-task. Work fast, and work well
• Interpersonal: Play nice, whether it’s in a team, with a team or independently
• Technical: Know Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Media databases and social tracking tools are a bonus (examples: Cision, Muckrack)
• Detail-Oriented: Whether it’s a media list or a recap report, attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work is essential
• Spark: Understand what sets you apart

What You Will Be Doing

• Research: Analyze brands using various resources, thoughtful and detailed research helps our bring ideas and plans to life
• Engage: Share big ideas in brainstorms and with teams
• Plan: Assist in event coordination and logistics 
• Create: Craft written communications including media materials, from briefing books to media pitches
• Hustle: Pitch stories to media, develop media lists, track placements, etc.
• Monitor: Track brands in traditional online and social media during one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Previous campaign reporting experience is a plus
• Organization: Organize and maintain product closet, check inventory, order product/shipping supplies
• Product send outs: Compile various product mailers and coordinate product shipments

What We Are Looking For

• Someone who has an interest in, and enthusiasm for public relations and consumer brands
• Able to work in a dynamic and fast-paced agency environment
• Strong writing skills and understanding of the media landscape
• Strong attention to detail
• Excellent time management skills
• Go-getter and proactive mindset – you’re willing to go above and beyond your daily tasks
• A contributing member of the team

Requirements:

• The ideal candidate must be a college graduate by the start of the internship or have demonstrated transferrable skills
• Must be available to work 40 hours a week starting January 2025

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, Client Experience

Weber Shandwick is seeking an ambitious and detail-oriented Associate for its New York office. This position will offer exposure to multiple areas of client experience, including social media, earned media and digital — offering an exciting opportunity to support a dynamic and engaged team dedicated to delivering innovative marketing and communications solutions for our clients. The ideal candidate will have a foundation in PR/journalism and social media, an interest in the consumer healthcare sector (though experience in health is not required), and a passion for pop culture.

What You’ll Be Doing: 

• Social media/community management support – inclusive of social listening, channel management, content calendar management, content posting, response matrix development, in-culture engagements
• Earned media support – researching reporters, building media lists, drafting media materials and pitches, pitching reporters and managing reporter relationships and media opportunities
• Provide operational support on client projects, as directed
• Collaborate with teammates–often across multiple offices and departments–on a variety of projects
• Effectively execute timely media monitoring and reporting daily. Accurately maintain executional tools and trackers for reporting
• Keep a pulse on industry news, opportunistic trends, and social platform best practices
• Participate in category/competitive audits and recap findings
• Lead creative trafficking to paid media agency
• Support website projects, including legal submissions
• Proactively offer solutions for executional issues specific to assigned programs
• Engage, as appropriate, with client contacts
• Support, as appropriate, relative vendor management

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or demonstrated transferrable skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong research skills, from both a media standpoint as well as consumer trends and news
• Confident presenter and persuasive speaker
• Self-motivated, entrepreneurial and endlessly curious
• PR agency/journalism/social media internship experience
• Professional demeanor
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Resourceful and effective problem solver
• Time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and manage workloads
• Independent, motivated and driven to meet key deadlines

Weber Shandwick is committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative, and supportive work environment. We are looking for individuals who are excited to contribute their skills, ideas, and enthusiasm to an award-winning team

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: $52,000 – $55,000

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.

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Senior Associate, Client Experience

Weber Shandwick is seeking an ambitious and detail-oriented Senior Associate for its New York office. This position will offer exposure to multiple areas of client experience, including social media, earned media and digital — offering an exciting opportunity to support a dynamic and engaged team dedicated to delivering innovative marketing and communications solutions for our clients. The ideal candidate will have a foundation in PR/journalism and social media, an interest in the consumer healthcare sector (though experience in health is not required), and a passion for pop culture.

The Essentials:

• Collaborate with teammates–often across multiple offices and departments–on a variety of projects
• Able to work in a dynamic team setting, but also can work independently

• Monitor brand social media channels following community management engagement protocol daily
• Keep a pulse on industry news, opportunistic trends, and social platform best practices
• Participate in category/competitive audits and recap findings
• Have strong research skills, from both a media targeting standpoint but also consumer trends and news
• Effectively execute timely media monitoring and reporting daily
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to delivering clear and precise work, whether you’re building a media list, crafting social replies, or drafting a recap report
• Requires strong organizational and time management skills, with an ability to prioritize across multiple projects

What You’ll Be Doing: 

• Provide operational support on client projects, as directed
• Accurately maintain executional tools, trackers and reporting
• Lead creative trafficking to paid media agency
• Support website projects, including legal submissions
• Share results of the work in a structured way
• Proactively offer solutions for executional issues specific to assigned programs
• Engage, as appropriate, with client contacts
• Support, as appropriate, relative vendor management
• Compiling research, coverage and insight reports for the team and clients
• Social Media/Community Management support – inclusive of social listening, channel management, content calendar management, content posting, response matrix development, in-culture engagements
• Earned media support – researching reporters, building media lists, drafting media materials and pitches, pitching reporters and managing reporter relationships and media opportunities

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, with a proactive approach to addressing issues and engaging with teams
• Confident presenter and persuasive speaker
• Self-motivated, entrepreneurial and endlessly curious
• PR agency/journalism/social media internship experience
• Professional demeanor
• Meticulous attention to detail
• Resourceful and effective problem solver
• Time management skills and the ability to prioritize tasks and manage workloads
• Independent, motivated and driven to meet key deadlines

Weber Shandwick is committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative, and supportive work environment. We are looking for individuals who are excited to contribute their skills, ideas, and enthusiasm to an award-winning team.

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: $62,400.00 – $70,000.00

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.

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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