Vice President, Client Experience - Consumer
New York, New York, United States
Published
07/16/2024
Weber Shandwick is looking for a Vice President to join our Consumer team in our New York office supporting iconic household name consumer brands.
We Are Seeking:
We’re looking for a strong, motivated, hard-working and curious Vice President to join our Consumer Practice, working across lifestyle and CPG brands. You will spearhead high profile, award-worthy, earned-driven integrated activations and productions for one of our top food clients (famous for out-of-this-world creations). You will work with high profile celebrity talent, influencers and red-carpet events. You will be responsible for managing client and inter-agency relationships, playing a critical role in determining the future and long-term success of our Consumer Practice. You will be responsible for all aspects of a client relationship and account team. You will supervise big pieces of business with multiple work streams and team members.
Other responsibilities include recommending programs and activities coordinating with client’s goals, effectively delegating projects, offering counsel to team members and allocating agency resources to match client budgets. You will also be engaged with business development, strategic program planning, analytics, media relations and the development and execution of creative concepts. Ideally, you will have agency or consulting experience in the Consumer communications or beauty/lifestyle space.
What We Are Looking For:
- Love for all-things related to CPG food brands and food trends
- Can turn ideas into workable plans and presentations
- Proven experience building programs and ability to shape brand stories that drive earned media
- Capacity to convey ownership of assigned projects to junior team members
- Can solve conflict
- Can mobilize and motivate teams
- Can work independently and as part of a team
- Excellent oral and written business communication skills
- Aptitude for financial analysis
- Can complete challenging projects within set parameters
- Exceptional judgment when working with team members, client contacts and vendors
- Commitment and dedication to the agency’s success as well as individual career
- Can anticipate client and team needs
- Attention to detail and quality
- Instills confidence with clients and colleagues
Basic Qualifications:
- At least 8-10 years’ experience in agency, PR/Communications space
- Experienced in Integrated Media Strategy and Media Relations, ideally within the consumer or CPG space
- Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Business Management, or related field
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: $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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Chicago, Illinois, United States
Vice President, Corporate Communications
Vice President, Client Experience- Corporate
We are seeking a Vice President to join our 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, executive thought leadership, internal communications, crisis communications, and integrated media strategies to protect and drive corporate reputation and value proposition narratives a variety of clients and prospects across many industries.
We’re looking for a candidate who is an excellent people leader, client counselor and will roll up their sleeves and stay close to the work.
Responsibilities include:
- Serve as trusted advisor, counselor and business partner to key client contacts
- Maximize business potential and advance great work through masterful orchestration of high-performing integrated teams
- Drive development of tactical plans, translating strategies into tactics; ensure team deliverables align with strategies
- Lead the client service function for program planning, problem solving and strategic counsel
- Mentor, coach and support team members ensuring constant development of their skills
- Effectively manage staff utilization to meet profitability targets
- Anticipate and proactively offer solutions to senior team leadership for executional issues specific to assigned programs
- Build and own productive relationships with multiple client stakeholders, interagency teams, client’s business partner organizations and a diverse array of agency colleagues
- Represent agency points of view clearly in writing, formal presentations and informal client meetings and workshops
- Maintain financial responsibility for accounts
- Mentor, coach and support team members ensuring constant development of their skills
- Effectively manage team utilization and maintain financial responsibility for accounts
Skills required:
- 9+ years of experience in Corporate Communications, Corporate PR, and/or agency experience strongly preferred
- Must have a strong background in corporate communications
- Must have an in-depth knowledge of reputation management and a working knowledge of traditional and non-traditional media
- Self-starter, resourceful and bring a passion for driving great results while building strong, productive relationships with clients and your team
- Collaborative spirit, results driven with the ability to manage multiple priorities and work against deadlines
- Excellent writing and presentation skills, experience developing and delivering client presentations
- Experience leading (and winning) new business efforts, including casting appropriate teams, driving deck and presentation development and seamlessly integrating strategy, creative and execution into a compelling proposal
- A history of success in providing sound creative and strategic counsel to clients and building credibility with senior-level client contacts
- Demonstrate the ability to think strategically, creatively and holistically about client programs
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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We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.
New York, New York, United States
Vice President, Social & Influencer Strategy
Vice President, Social & Influencer Strategy
Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a Vice President, Social & Influencer Strategy to join our Healthcare teams in our New York office to help lead integration across marketing functions on behalf of a major healthcare brand. This position is responsible for driving the success of the client relationship, including meeting client objectives within given budgets, and translating all these factors into strategic briefs and corresponding planning documents to ensure client satisfaction.
The Vice President, Social & Influencer Strategy is responsible for working with cross-functional teams in the development and oversight of the execution of strategic social media and digital initiatives including development of campaigns, content creation and measuring the effectiveness of our initiatives.
An ideal candidate will have deep experience in the social and digital space on notable brands and be in tune with emerging trends within digital and social media, as well as understand the broader cultural shift-taking place through digital means.
Client-facing responsibilities will include strategic program planning, managing programs and activities to meet business objectives, effectively delegating projects, providing strategic counsel to team members and allocating agency resources while managing client schedules and budgets.
We want someone who is collaborative and willing to work on teams to do bold new things. Someone who wants to solve client problems in new ways as social media paradigms and practices evolve and shift.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a senior day-to-day client contact for a couple critical clients, responsible for building and nurturing the client relationship while supporting the management and optimization of a team to support digital and/or social efforts
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the development, implementation and measurement of innovative digital brand strategies that are integrated with overall client marketing objectives/goals
- Collaborate with agency partners (e.g. media, branding), as necessary, to develop and implement integrated program execution
- Develop and track against client scopes of work
- Demonstrate strong conceptual thinking with high energy and excellent “story-telling” skills demonstrated through writing creative briefs and verbal presentation
- Become educated in client’s brand, customer base, business model and marketing objectives
Qualifications:
- 8-10+ years of experience with a digital advertising and/or digital PR agency, healthcare experience is preferred
- Possess a thorough command of the social media and digital world (from the evolving social web to mobile tools and trends), sophisticated client service and digital communications skills, high energy, and passion for this area of rapid change and innovation.
- Work well within highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams – displaying proven ability in running a team, controlling timelines and budgets, anticipating issues, and working towards solutions to complex problems.
- Be able to communicate with client contacts across multiple levels, both at a reporting and strategic counsel level
- Have exceptional creative and business writing skill
- Lead cross-functional account teams to build content plans and campaign strategies designed to engage members of brand communities
- Strong technical proficiency in social media platforms
- Be able to analyze and synthesize data from the communities you manage, providing insights from the data to inform future recommendations and decisions
- Have the proven ability to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects and work independently in a fast-paced office environment
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, 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 make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.
New York, New York, United States
Vice President, Client Experience Digital - Healthcare
Vice President, Client Experience Digital
Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a Vice President Digital, Client Experience to join our Healthcare teams in our New York office to help lead integration across marketing functions on behalf of a major healthcare brand. This position is responsible for driving the success of the client relationship, including meeting client objectives within given budgets, and translating all these factors into strategic briefs and corresponding planning documents to ensure client satisfaction.
The Vice President Digital, Client Experience is responsible for working with cross-functional teams in the development and oversight of the execution of strategic social media and digital initiatives including development of campaigns, content creation and measuring the effectiveness of our initiatives.
An ideal candidate will have deep experience in the social and digital space on notable brands and be in tune with emerging trends within digital and social media, as well as understand the broader cultural shift-taking place through digital means.
Client-facing responsibilities will include strategic program planning, managing programs and activities to meet business objectives, effectively delegating projects, providing strategic counsel to team members and allocating agency resources while managing client schedules and budgets.
We want someone who is collaborative and willing to work on teams to do bold new things. Someone who wants to solve client problems in new ways as social media paradigms and practices evolve and shift.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as a senior day-to-day client contact for a couple critical clients, responsible for building and nurturing the client relationship while supporting the management and optimization of a team to support digital and/or social efforts
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams in the development, implementation and measurement of innovative digital brand strategies that are integrated with overall client marketing objectives/goals
- Collaborate with agency partners (e.g. media, branding), as necessary, to develop and implement integrated program execution
- Develop and track against client scopes of work
- Demonstrate strong conceptual thinking with high energy and excellent “story-telling” skills demonstrated through writing creative briefs and verbal presentation
- Become educated in client’s brand, customer base, business model and marketing objectives
Qualifications:
- 8-10+ years of experience with a digital advertising and/or digital PR agency, healthcare experience is preferred
- Possess a thorough command of the social media and digital world (from the evolving social web to mobile tools and trends), sophisticated client service and digital communications skills, high energy, and passion for this area of rapid change and innovation.
- Work well within highly collaborative, multidisciplinary teams – displaying proven ability in running a team, controlling timelines and budgets, anticipating issues, and working towards solutions to complex problems.
- Be able to communicate with client contacts across multiple levels, both at a reporting and strategic counsel level
- Have exceptional creative and business writing skill
- Lead cross-functional account teams to build content plans and campaign strategies designed to engage members of brand communities
- Strong technical proficiency in social media platforms
- Be able to analyze and synthesize data from the communities you manage, providing insights from the data to inform future recommendations and decisions
- Have the proven ability to meet deadlines, juggle multiple projects and work independently in a fast-paced office environment
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, 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 make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.