Vice President, Strategic Planning - Healthcare

We are seeking a Senior Manager to join the Corporate Practice in our Chicago office to support a broad range of client and new business needs. In this role, you will be working on programs involving reputation management, earned media strategies, executive thought leadership, internal communications, crisis communications, and integrated communications planning to protect and drive corporate reputation and value proposition narratives a variety of clients and prospects across many industries. The ideal candidate will possess experience and skills across many of the above areas and will be responsible for supporting multiple account teams and collaborating with specialists and subject matter experts across the practice and agency. This role will help lead work from concept to execution, be a primary client contact, and mentor junior talent. The ideal candidate must have strong written and oral communications skills, be able to creatively support corporate reputation and positioning programs that resonate in today’s environment and possess a passion for earned storytelling.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Own responsibilities for execution of client programs, budgets, and plans.
• 5-7 years of relevant experience
• Contribute to development of plans, translating strategies into tactics.
• Ensure team deliverables align with strategic plans to deliver strong results across agreed-to communications channels.
• Create media strategies and oversee pitching of well-developed stories to key national, trade and other media of importance to client goals.
• Developing executive positioning programs and tactical outputs including media, speaking, awards and social opportunities.
• Support issues and crises, including media monitoring, creation of reactive statements and materials, preparedness and scenario plans
• Build strong client and internal relationships, confidence and trust by proactively anticipating and understanding client needs.
• Leverage industry knowledge and experience to proactively support and recommend new ideas.
• Contribute to the career growth of junior team members, serving as mentor and role model.
• Actively participate in team culture, external visibility events and assist with new business.
• Demonstrate financial acumen in the areas of budgeting, billing and staffing.

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

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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Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a Senior Project Manager, Integrated Project Management for the Washington, DC Project Management team who will work closely with team members in account, creative, public relations, and strategy, as well as report to a VP, across a portfolio of brands and/or projects.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate with creative, strategy, paid, account management and other internal teams to help drive best-in-class solutions for medium to large programs
• Manage project deliverables across multiple medium- large scale campaigns and help coordinate various functions including creative, strategy, insights, paid media, and analytics
• Professionally manage large scale engagements with account team partners focusing on balancing quality, cost and schedule, while exceeding client expectations
• Set expectations at the beginning of a project: as any issues arise, find solutions without compromising quality, team morale, or budget
• Be the conductor of a project/team and a proactive, solution-oriented, and strategic advisor
• Have a solid understanding of the creative development, production and paid media delivery processes and focus on stewarding the work from concept through delivery.
• Manage account budgets, scopes, and time while providing frequent updates to key stakeholders
• Partner with account leadership and finance to facilitate accurate and realistic forecasts; actively manage any forecast mitigation as needed
• Partner with account leadership to manage team on-boarding processes, including educating team members on roles and responsibilities, processes, and templates
• Serve as contact for client finance relative to financial management of the account
• Demonstrate strong, professional work ethic and financial acumen

Requirements:

• 6+ years of Project Management experience, preferably in an agency setting, media relations
• Strong financial management skills, including scoping, burn report tracking, resource allocation across project tasks. Prior experience managing multi-million-dollar budgets and scopes.
• SME with different types of programs and deliverables, such as strategic planning, creative ideation, video, social and editorial content, digital, and partner management
• Ability to effectively communicate with internal team members across multiple disciplines and levels, instilling confidence, and trust in your abilities
• Be comfortable digging into account finances: developing staffing models, writing SOWs, tracking burn rates, etc.
• Experience working closely with the implementation of an integrated media mix of paid, owned and earned programs
• Have excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate with team members across multiple levels, building trust in your abilities to get the job done effectively
• Have excellent organization and time management skills
• Understanding of government clients preferred

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

Washington D.C. Salary range: $86,000 – $105,000

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 a new Senior Strategist to join our team. The ideal candidate is someone who has previous strategy experience, strong understanding of evolving media landscape (especially earned and social media) and an inherent love and aptitude for culture. You’ll be expected to work within an integrated team, working with account, creative and analytics functions to create flawless campaigns that drive results for clients. 

Position Description 

• Work both independently and collaboratively with cross-functional teams to develop strong, innovative earned-first strategies and campaigns
• Stay up to date on latest cultural trends, creating reports and guiding the team on activating against those
• Help turn research-based observations into inspiring insights and briefs for creative and media teams
• Have a deep understanding of digital and social media platforms and how to create for each individually
• Develop and deliver crisp, compelling and visually engaging presentations and pitches
• Create measurement frameworks for business and brand impact and conduct data-driven analysis
• Actively lead strategy sessions and creative brainstorms and contribute to  client presentations
• Cultivate relationships with key decision-makers across the business, including creative and media (earned, paid and social) specialists, research/analytics experts, and account teams

Qualifications

• 4-5 years of relevant work experience
• Strongly entrenched in brands and culture
• Strong understanding of the earned media (including earned social) landscape
• Knowledge of evolving social platforms and community engagement on social
• Strong knowledge of broad set of audience, insights and analytics tools such as YouGov, MRI, GWI, WARC, etc is a must.  Experience with AI research tools is desirable
• Demonstrated expertise with media intelligence and social listening tools such as Talkwalker, Brandwatch, Cision, Meltwater, Agility PR, etc.  
• Strong understanding and experience with primary research (surveys and studies)
• Detail-oriented, multi-tasker with excellent time-management skills
• Exceptional written, verbal communication and visual presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to construct a strategic argument supported by evidence
• Ability to quickly understand and translate complex business or policy issues
• Strong time management, project management and organizational skills
• Meaningfully contribute to a civil, fast paced, inclusive and positive work environment
• Enough poise to work with multiple creative and account management colleagues across diverse experience levels and disciplines
• Proactive, self-starter who can work well both independently and as part of a 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
• RRSP (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) – $50 monthly cell phone reimbursement
• MyDays – Flexible time off
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave Policy

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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