Influencer Strategy Intern (Summer 2025)

Account Director, Client Experience, Healthcare

The Account Director will have proven leadership and client service skills, and experience managing integrated communications programs. The candidate will be the day-to-day contact for clients, manage communications across a cross-functional agency team as well as client team, and support flawless execution in the most efficient and productive way. They will display personal ownership and accountability for client engagement, with the ability to cultivate and nurture long-term partnerships and client satisfaction.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Maintain daily client contact, serving as a trusted resource and advisor
• Facilitate cross-functional team integration (strategy, creative, integrated media specialists, etc.) to deliver on client plans
• Act as effective, two-way translator between clients and teams, actively counseling development of work in the best interest of all parties
• Proactively support and suggest improvements and new ideas to exceed client expectations by leveraging industry knowledge and experience
• Manage workstreams with a focus on running data and regulatory milestones and overseeing junior staff
• Have ownership of client financials and profitability
• Coordinate integration with other agency partners
• Successfully navigate conflicts across internal stakeholders, clients and agency partners
• Manage ongoing team resourcing/staffing to ensure successful delivery of work product
• Actively participate in agency development and assist with new business

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 6-8 years of relevant healthcare communications agency experience
• Ability to translate client needs into workable plans/projects
• Strong project management skills and attention to detail
• Experience managing high-performing teams; mentoring team members
• Confident presenter and persuasive speaker
• Financial acumen in the areas of budgeting, billing and staffing
• Minimum: Bachelor’s Degree

PREFERRED REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong decision-making skills
• Ability to multi-task in a deadline-oriented, fast-paced environment
• Collaborative team player
• Exceptional judgment when working with clients, teams and vendors
• Self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and endlessly curious

Benefits Statement

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: $115,000 – $135,000

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 recruiting a Senior Analytics Manager who is experienced and passionate about using analytics to inform and empower effective communications campaigns for clients.  This person will be skilled in operationalizing client questions into smart measurement research and translating best-in-class analytics findings into actionable insights that inform client’s communication strategies. This person would have the opportunity to work with corporate clients across healthcare, tech, and other sectors focusing on corporate reputation, issue management, and public affairs. Day to day responsibilities include managing and leading delivery of earned and social listening, leveraging AI-powered tools to sustainably scale new insight discovery, ensuring production and delivery of high cadence (daily and weekly) client deliverables that integrate insights from various data streams, and doing quick analyses to respond to new business and client crises. Other responsibilities include the formalization of insights deliverables, conducting data integrity checks of varied data streams and deliverables, consolidating AI research best practices, and translation of data findings into accessible insights for different partners. This position reports to the head of the analytics team in DC and will join a 12 person strong analytics team.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with analytics teams to service client research and analytics requests, design the approach, lead a team through earned and social media analyses, and answer questions from internal and external stakeholders
• Test and deploy AI-powered analytical tools to analyze client and publicly available data
• Manage workloads of teams to ensure delivery of compelling analytics reports and insights that empower client to understand trends and actionable implications of analyses
• Identify, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Maintain strong knowledge of both well-established and new-to-market digital marketing analytics tools and platforms; specifically syndicated research and social listening platforms.
• Evangelize smart data analytics that inform data-driven decision-making internally and externally with clients and other agency partners
• Develop and apply strategic measurement frameworks to uncover insights and takeaways from data across earned, social, owned, and other media sources.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise and experience translating data and research into strategic insights and recommendations
• 5+ years relevant full-time experience as an independent contributor and 2+ years managing direct report(s)
• Experience engaging and collaborating with clients and internal teams with agency or matrixed analytics team
• Experience in social and earned listening, AI-powered analytics, integration of insights from multi-channel analyses, campaign performance analyses, and measurement of real-world impact
• Experience analyzing and synthesizing data from first-party and third-party sources
• Ability to work independently and be a collaborative team player who brings unique analytics skills to large client teams
• Desire and capacity to take full ownership of work tracks, manage complicated deadlines and deliverable processes, nurture client relationships, collaborate with strategy and creative teams, and mentor junior analytics staff

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: $100,000 – $120,000

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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Weber Shandwick is looking for a dynamic Senior Vice President to join our Consumer team in our New York office supporting iconic global consumer brands.

We Are Seeking:

We’re looking for a dynamic, self-motivated Senior Vice President to join our Consumer Practice, working across global lifestyle and CPG brands. You will spearhead high profile, award-worthy, earned-driven integrated activations and productions for one of our top alcohol clients, famous for delivering industry-leading creative activations throughout the year. Working in a dynamic agency-client model, you will work with high profile celebrity talent, influencers and oversee global experiences for fans. You will be responsible for managing client and inter-agency relationships, playing a critical role in determining the future and long-term success of not only this business, but also our Consumer Practice. You will be responsible for all aspects of a client relationship and account team and 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 global agency experience, and have executed multiple global campaigns in scale.

What We Are Looking For:

•         Flawless ability to oversee many moving pieces with minimal oversight while managing junior team and clients       
•         Love for all-things related to sports, lifestyle, entertainment and culture
•         Can turn ideas into workable plans and presentations via decks
•         Strong ability to counsel clients and deliver industry-leading expertise to both internal and external partners
•         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
•         Strong ability to remain nimble and counsel clients through conflict
•         Can mobilize and motivate teams while working 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

 The right person for this role has:

• 12+ years of experience in PR inclusive of agency experience working on integrated communications campaigns
• Deep knowledge of the consumer products space, with experience in – and passion for – beauty, personal care and lifestyle brands
• Proven track record of proactively identifying and delivering strategic opportunities that unlock account growth beyond the current or ‘expected’ remit
• Strong familiarity and expertise related to social, digital and influencer channels that can further fuel earned-driven communications
• Exceptional client service track record with ability to counsel and interact effectively with senior management at client organizations
• Experience managing a large CPG account (over $1 million in billings) and the keen organizational skills needed to juggle multiple client needs at once
• Ability to efficiently manage cross-office teams that span multiple cities and countries with integrated account teams preferred
• Ability to be both strategic and hands-on, to flex with clients’ needs
• Success leading teams and developing talent
• An entrepreneurial spirit, strong leadership qualities, and a collaborative attitude
• A willingness to challenge how things have always been done, in a desire to continuously improve
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
• Proficient skills in MSOffice (PowerPoint, Excel and Word)
• BA or BS in Communications or related degree

Benefits Statement

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: $160,000- $225,000

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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