Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning

We Are Seeking:
The Weber Shandwick West office is currently seeking a Vice President to support several clients in our growing Corporate Practice. The ideal candidate will have experience in brand and reputation building communications, managing executive visibility, media strategy and team leadership. The candidate will have the opportunity to drive a broad range of corporate reputation campaigns across a variety of clients, while leading a team of practitioners and collaborating with Weber Shandwick’s network to develop strategic and creative client work.

What You Will Be Doing:
•    Develop and grow positive relationships with clients, maintaining the company’s reputation in terms of delivery and quality
•    Provide strategic counsel to clients where possible, being able to assess problems and define logical and effective solutions for clients
•    Lead the delivery of high-profile accounts across multiple markets
•    Execute client programs to support media relations, corporate event and executive visibility programs
•    Work successfully with partner agencies as part of a client integrated agency team, both internally at WS and externally
•    Work effectively with finance colleagues to deliver accurate quotations for all client projects or new business work
•    Write well-structured, persuasive content and help train other team colleagues to do the same
•    Contribute innovative ideas for the client and new business work, inspiring ideation amongst team members

 Qualifications:
•    8-10 years public relations experience, corporate PR background desired
•    Past experience working in an agency or in-house role coordinating with agency partners
•    Experience working on Corporate reputation campaigns across industries
•    You are both a creative and a strategic thinker, and a natural team leader
•    Needs to have a track record in client service to senior level clients
•    Strategic media relations knowledge
•    Experience working with C-suite executives on executive visibility programs
•    BA or BS in Communications or related degree
•    Experience working with tech clients or at a tech company is required 
•    Experience working with publicly traded companies that deal with financial/capital markets, regulatory and issues & crisis matters 

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

Salary range: $125,000 – $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 Are Seeking:
The Weber Shandwick San Francisco office is currently seeking a Vice President to support several clients in our growing Corporate Practice. The ideal candidate will have experience in brand and reputation building communications, managing executive visibility, media strategy and team leadership. The candidate will have the opportunity to drive a broad range of corporate reputation campaigns across a variety of clients, while leading a team of practitioners and collaborating with Weber Shandwick’s network to develop strategic and creative client work.

What You Will Be Doing:
•    Develop and grow positive relationships with clients, maintaining the company’s reputation in terms of delivery and quality
•    Provide strategic counsel to clients where possible, being able to assess problems and define logical and effective solutions for clients
•    Lead the delivery of high-profile accounts across multiple markets
•    Execute client programs to support media relations, corporate event and executive visibility programs
•    Work successfully with partner agencies as part of a client integrated agency team, both internally at WS and externally
•    Work effectively with finance colleagues to deliver accurate quotations for all client projects or new business work
•    Write well-structured, persuasive content and help train other team colleagues to do the same
•    Contribute innovative ideas for the client and new business work, inspiring ideation amongst team members

 Qualifications:
•    8-10 years public relations experience, corporate PR background desired
•    Past experience working in an agency or in-house role coordinating with agency partners
•    Experience working on Corporate reputation campaigns across industries
•    You are both a creative and a strategic thinker, and a natural team leader
•    Needs to have a track record in client service to senior level clients
•    Strategic media relations knowledge
•    Experience working with C-suite executives on executive visibility programs
•    BA or BS in Communications or related degree
•    Experience working with tech clients or at a tech company is required 
•    Experience working with publicly traded companies that deal with financial/capital markets, regulatory and issues & crisis matters 

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

Salary range: $125,000 – $170,000

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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Directeur·rice, Planification stratégique

Le ou la directeur·rice de la planification stratégique travaillera à l’élaboration de stratégies de communication percutantes destinées au marché du Québec. Le ou la candidat·e idéal·e est bilingue et possède un esprit perspicace qui s’imprègne de la culture, aime comprendre ce qui pousse les consommateur·rice·s à agir et cultive une passion pour les idées inattendues permettant de faire progresser les communications dans un marché nuancé. À ce poste, il ou elle participera à tous les éléments de la stratégie de marque et d’entreprise dans divers secteurs, notamment celui des soins de santé. Au cœur de cette fonction figurent la création et l’analyse des données et des tendances du marché, l’élaboration d’études de marché et la conception d’idées et de stratégies efficaces permettant de relever les défis auxquels sont confrontées les marques et les entreprises.

Responsabilités :

• Faire progresser les capacités à diriger des mandats spécifiques au marché – sous la supervision et avec les conseils d’un·e membre expérimenté·e de l’équipe.
• Afficher une prestance professionnelle et mature au sein de l’équipe et dans les relations avec la clientèle et faire preuve de solides techniques de présentation.
• Déceler de façon proactive les défis potentiels liés au plan de recherche et au brief créatif en formulant des recommandations d’amélioration.
• Initier et contribuer à la réalisation du processus stratégique, du plan de recherche au brief créatif. Codiriger des mandats pour la clientèle.
• Exploiter les données, les recherches et les rapports pour en tirer des idées et des enseignements.
• Développer une compréhension approfondie de la dynamique du marché d’un produit ou d’une marque, de l’état d’esprit de la clientèle, des actions de la concurrence et des tendances de l’industrie.
• Déterminer et formuler des idées qui conduiront à un changement de comportement.
• Cultiver des relations étroites avec le personnel, les partenaires internes et la clientèle, notamment en conseillant le personnel subalterne.

Expérience requise :

• Six à dix ans d’expérience en stratégie et planification des communications ou du marketing, idéalement au sein d’un service ou d’un environnement en communications, spécialisé dans la génération d’idées stratégiques au sein du marché québécois.
• Compréhension de la stratégie de marque culturelle et connaissance des relations publiques, du numérique et des médias sociaux.
• Expertise dans le secteur du marketing et des communications.
• Grande aisance dans l’utilisation des techniques et des ressources de recherche et dans la génération d’idées.
• Expérience avérée de l’analytique et de l’analyse de données (non seulement l’extraction de données, mais aussi leur manipulation).
• Aptitudes à faire des présentations claires et convaincantes en français et en anglais.
• Agilité dans le style de travail – capacité démontrée à travailler dans des délais serrés et à collaborer.
• Excellente communication verbale et écrite en français et en anglais, ainsi qu’une capacité à élaborer et à étayer des arguments.

 

Freelance Director, Strategic Planning

The Director, Strategic Planning will work to architect powerful business driving communications strategies for the Québec market. The ideal candidate is a bilingual, insightful thinker who is in-culture, loves to understand what drives consumers to act and is relentless about finding unexpected insights to drive communications forward in such a nuanced market. In this role, you will be involved in all elements of brand and corporate strategy across industries including healthcare. Key to this role will be creating and analyzing data and market trends, shaping market research, and developing impactful insights and strategies that solve brand and corporate challenges.

Responsibilities:

• Advances abilities to lead market-specific engagements – with supervision and guidance from a senior member of the team.
• 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:

• 6-10 years of experience in marketing/communications strategy and planning ideally within a strategy department/communications environment specializing in strategic insight generation within the Québec market.
• 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 in both French + English.
• Agility in working style – demonstrated ability to work against tight timelines and to work collaboratively.
• Excellent verbal and written communication in both French + English with the capability to construct and support arguments.

 

Salary range: $100.00 – $115.00 

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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