Design Intern (Fall 2024)

The Brand Group at Weber Shandwick New York has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Associate, Men’s Lifestyle and Sports Media Relations Specialist to join our team. We are looking for a collaborative person with a passion for sports and entertainment and excellent expertise in successfully engaging media professionals.

Job description:

• Work with the team to develop successful earned media strategies grounded in men’s lifestyle, spirits and sports insights, including goals and objectives, media targets, pitch angles and engagement approaches
• Bolster creative programming recommendations with a focus on national earned media coverage, while still maintaining relationships with influential regional men’s lifestyle and sports journalists
• Facilitate ongoing conversations with top consumer, men’s lifestyle, spirits, pop culture and sports journalists to keep the business top-of-mind throughout, the year
• Persuasively pitch media and earn high-profile coverage for clients
• Provide input on influencer relations marketing campaigns and tactics
• Develop and manage timelines and weekly action plans to ensure all deadlines on client programs are met
• Break down and manage detailed tasks with the account team associated with planning and implementing special public relations events
• Anticipate and proactively offer solutions to senior team leadership for executional issues specific to assigned programs
• Interact with senior management and input feedback into tactics and strategies

 Qualifications:

• 2+ years of communications experience, preferably in an agency environment or a sports property
• Strong sports media, men’s lifestyle, pop culture and influencer relations skills and relationships at the national, regional and trade/vertical level
• Previous consumer packaged goods and related industries experience is a bonus, but not required
• Excellent communication/presentation skills; verbal and written
• Strong attention to detail and project management skills
• Open to giving and receiving constructive and respectful feedback in a timely manner
• Desire to continuously learn new skills and knowledge, and willingness to always share skills and knowledge with team members as well as clients
• Commitment to personal accountability
• BA or BS in Public Relations, Communications, Journalism or related field
• Capable of working independently and in a dynamic, high energy, fast paced team-oriented atmosphere
• High comfortability level working with athletes and celebrities, without being star struck

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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VP, STRATEGIC PLANNING, HEALTHCARE

If you’re an amazing creative strategist with a passion for health and want be a part of a team who is reinventing the playbook for earned-first healthcare communications, we should talk. Weber Shandwick is looking for a VP of Strategic Planning, Healthcare to steer the strategy for multiple high-profile healthcare accounts, from a pharma company with innovative oncology treatments to first-to-market leaders in vaccines and rare disease.

About you:

You are endlessly curious about consumer mindsets and the drivers of behavior change. You love working on health and want to set new standards for what good health ideas look like. You think and write clearly, and you understand diverse media platforms and technology. You are able to frame a problem, develop succinct insights and strategies, and explain what it all means in a compelling story. You’re open-minded, battle-tested, inclusive and empathetic. You have a high level of cultural fluency, and while you’re by no means a scientist, you think science is cool.

 

CLIENT AND WORK

Leads integrated teams to create and implement flawless execution plans informed by strategic vision, with very limited support from senior strategic planning leadership

Responsible for all strategic planning for a limited number of clients

Leads the strategic process, from start to finish

Oversee the crafting and evaluation of primary and secondary research plans to segment audiences, and understand the cultural, societal, business and media context impacting a business to uncover business insights

Leads engagement with confidence and commitment to high quality, data-driven strategic brand recommendations, tactical plans and programs

Focuses on the strategic vision driving the detailed execution and performance evaluation

Ensures the plan is strategically sound, accurately addresses interesting insights and opportunities informed by research/ analytics findings in partnership with Global Intelligence

 

LEADERSHIP AND TALENT MANAGEMENT

Manages account engagements independently, with minimal guidance

Guides planning resources, assignment of strategic planning staff

Establishes interpersonal relationships within and outside of department, with focus on building inclusive culture and mentoring colleagues outside of personal relationships

Promotes the development and advancement of underrepresented groups in team through professional development trainings

Mentors, coaches and develops direct reports to deliver high performance while supporting personal and professional development goals

Actively participates in the hiring and onboarding of talent; Supports and develops processes to enhance inclusive hiring practices for team

Participate in trainings build own cultural competency and ability to lead, coach and develop diverse teams

Actively participates in office or agency DEI initiatives to attract and retain diverse talent

 

GROWTH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Responsible for identifying opportunities to expand client engagements in partnership with integrated teams

Responsible for net new business opportunities

 

BUSINESS ACUMEN

Responsible for reviewing, approving draft scopes, allocations and comparison against actuals

 

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.

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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OVERVIEW

Weber Shandwick is one of the world’s leading global communications and marketing solutions firms with offices in 79 cities and a network extending to 120 cities on 6 continents. In the Asia Pacific region the firm operates in 18 markets including owned as well as affiliates and representative firms in other locales – spanning Greater China, Japan and Korea, India and Southeast Asia. Our heritage in Asia Pacific stretches back more than 60 years.

 

Weber Shandwick was named Asia-Pacific PR Consultancy of the Year 2017, 2019 and 2020 by PR Awards Asia, the ICCO Regional Network of the Year Asia Pacific in 2017, 2018 and 2019, Asia-Pacific Consultancy of the Year 2017 and 2019 by Provoke and Regional Network of the Year in 2017, 2018 and 2023 by Public Affairs Asia. We were also named PRWeek Purpose Awards Agency of the Year 2020 and 2021, Global PR Agency of the Decade 2020 and Global PR Agency of the Year 2023 at the Global Sabre Awards by Provoke Media.

 

More than ever, organisations need to solve for unprecedented challenges born of technology-driven disruption. We fuse global teams grounded in technology, digital innovation and analytics to help clients. As we live in an always-on world, our brand positioning reflects this need to engage with our always-on audience, just as we advise our clients to do. We inspire. We incite. We shape ideas and conversations, and we activate our global reach for local causes and multinational brands alike, and we’re always ready for more problems to solve.

 

Our Values:

CURIOSITY – We cultivate curiosity and challenge convention. Because solving any problem begins by asking the right questions

INCLUSION – We foster teams and environments built on belonging and openness to possibility. Because the best ideas have no bias

COURAGE – We stand up for what we believe in. Because being comfortable with the uncomfortable is how progress is made

IMPACT – We strive to make a meaningful difference in everything we do. Because we owe it to our people, or clients and the world

 

About the Role

A Graphic Designer is responsible for aspects of visual, conceptualization and production for healthcare projects online and offline.

They should collaborate with account lead, external vendors, and other content specialists and writers/team members. They should draw on their experience and knowledge to provide high-level counsel on design and visual issues for various projects and events with their target audiences. Other responsibilities include assisting the team with brainstorming design concept to achieve client’s goals, work closely with the Senior Art Director as well as freelancers, implementing design concepts and collaboratively work with production.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

Client

• Quickly acquire a good general knowledge of client products, brands and therapeutic areas, to provide high-level of design and visual approach for projects
• Come up with unique approach and concept for clients by getting familiar with clients’ competitor products and their brands
• Provide recommendations on timeline, materials and vendors from design to realization of projects
• Assist account lead to develop and beautify presentations for clients and pitch

 

Design

• Involve in brainstorming and actively assist in idea generating session
• Concept and brand development for medical projects
• Help to visualize and provide guidelines of implementation or identify restraints on design projects
• Develop design that would communicate to both professional and lay audiences
• Manage design aspect of projects internally or externally by collaborating with Art Director, designers, writers, digital professionals, and production personnel
• Manage production process; quality control on outgoing artwork especially with printed materials to printers; ensure high quality deliverables to clients by pre-checking test print from production
• Work with digital team closely according to specs to deliver social media platform or website collaterals

 

PERSONAL PROFILE

• A bachelor’s degree or higher in Graphic Design, Communication, Design, Fine arts, or a related field
• 1-3 year of experience of relevant design experience in Branding/Event/Digital/Advertising agency; creating both digital and print materials
• Highly proficient with design software including Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, After Effects, PowerPoint and Figma
• Ability to sketch, visualize and communicate storylines and concepts
• Experience/interest in the healthcare industry is ideal

To apply, please provide portfolio link together with your resume. 

 

Note from the team

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Weber Shandwick is committed to building a culture where all employees are seen as equal, are respected and where all opinions are heard. We take pride in our inclusive hiring, as well as our diverse workforce and we welcome applications from all qualified candidates.

 

Personal data held by Weber Shandwick relating to employment applications will be used in accordance with our Privacy Statement, which is available on our website.

Due to the large number of applications received, we apologize if we are unable to provide a response or feedback on unsuccessful applications. We appreciate the time taken to apply for the role and your recent interest in Weber Shandwick.