Senior Vice President, Integrated Project Management
New York, New York, United States
Published
09/17/2025
Weber Shandwick is seeking a highly strategic and collaborative Senior Vice President to join our Client Operations and Project Management capability. This individual will play a critical role in driving operational excellence, cultivating talent, and aligning business objectives with operational strategies to achieve long-term success.
As one of the senior-most leaders in this space, the SVP will be responsible for overseeing large-scale new account transitions, driving transformations within existing client work, and leading the operational setup for new clients, including establishing processes, teams, and ways of working to ensure success. Additionally, the role will focus on elevating internal processes, ensuring financial health, and fostering team growth across regions and markets.
The SVP will work closely with the NA Operations lead, agency leadership, clients, and cross-functional teams to set new standards for operational efficiency, team management, and business growth, all while maintaining Weber Shandwick’s commitment to excellence and innovation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set a clear vision for operational excellence and implement best practices that drive transformational change and agency-wide impact and within the Client Operations and PM capability.
- Strategically uncover growth opportunities within departments and lead the Client Operations and PM leadership team through focused, actionable planning to drive results.
- Lead large-scale transformation efforts tailored to existing clients and internal teams, aligning operations with Weber Shandwick’s business goals and ensuring consistent optimization and efficiency across all functions.
- Lead the operational setup for new clients by establishing streamlined processes, building high-performing teams, and defining ways of working to ensure seamless integration and delivery excellence.
- Provide strategic operational consultation by identifying risks and opportunities, driving large-scale operational models, and delivering actionable solutions.
- Act as the primary escalation point for operational challenges, ensuring seamless issue mitigation and continuous improvement.
- Partner with agency leadership to reinforce and promote the value of Client Operations and PM services as a growth engine for the agency and drive overall growth of the capability.
- Oversee the fiscal health across Clients and the remit assigned within he Client Operations and PM capability, ensuring billability, utilization, and sustainable financial practices.
- Negotiate large-scale, global and complex scopes, agreements, and budgets with clients, procurement, and internal parties such as Finance and Legal.
- Provide guidance on margin management and revenue growth by reviewing scopes of work and partnering with leadership on effective financial strategies.
- Lead casting efforts across the capability, ensuring optimal resource utilization and client satisfaction.
- Lead the development of high performing teams by strategically define training opportunities, lead educational sessions with senior agency leaders/offices, and actively sponsor and mentor emerging diverse talent to foster a culture of inclusivity.
- Drive inclusive hiring practices in collaboration with Talent Acquisition while managing and coaching a diverse team to develop the next generation of Weber Shandwick leaders
Requirements:
- 15+ years of experience, with a demonstrated ability to lead complex operations at a global scale
- Deep understanding of operational processes, financial management, and business strategy.
- Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to inspire and manage diverse teams while fostering a culture of inclusion and collaboration.
- Experience negotiating client contracts, scopes, and budgets with a focus on delivering both strategic and financial value.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with senior leadership, cross-functional teams, and clients.
- Excellent communication and organizational skills.
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: $160,000 – $200,000
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
Project Manager
Project Manager
Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a dedicated Project Manager, Integrated Project Management to join our winning team! In this role you will work closely with an integrated team across account, creative, influencer, social, analytics, and strategy, as well as report to a Director of Project Management, to lead projects on a major piece of business with a growing portfolio of brands.
Responsibilities:
- Independently manage multiple small to medium-scale integrated campaigns; collaborating with internal stakeholders, coordinating with various partners and managing vendors
- Demonstrate understanding the full project lifecycle from client brief to final delivery
- Own and manage project lifecycle with extended team, inclusive of scoping deliverables, resource management, hour estimates, timeline development, and project requirements/processes
- Coordinate with creative, strategy, account management and other internal teams to help drive best-in-class solutions, deliver award winning results and mitigate risk and potential overservice
- Manage financial performance of accounts including scopes, burn report summaries and forecasting
- Lead internal team members on day-to-day project milestones and deliverables
- Partner with WS account team to manage team on-boarding processes
- Support in educating the team on roles and responsibilities, process and templates
Basic Qualifications:
- 4+ years of project management experience, preferably in an agency setting
- Strong financial management skills, including scoping, burn report tracking, resource allocation across project tasks
- Demonstrated success in managing different types of programs and deliverables, such as creative ideation, social and/or digital
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Detail-oriented, proactive, and skilled at driving clarity in complex projects
- Motivated and curious, a true team player eager to jump in, problem solve and lead teams to success
- Proficient in Microsoft Project/Smartsheet, Excel, and PowerPoint
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: $71,000 – $85,000
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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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Project Manager
Project Manager, Integrated Project Management
Description:
Weber Shandwick is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our BOSTON Integrated Project Management team. In this role, you’ll partner with cross-disciplined colleagues to deliver best-in-class campaigns for a range of dynamic brands. Reporting to a Director, VP, or SVP, you’ll manage medium to large-scale projects, overseeing timelines, budgets, and deliverables while driving collaboration and ensuring client satisfaction. This is a hybrid role tied to our Boston office.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Project Management: Lead the entire project lifecycle—from brief to delivery—for medium-sized and integrated campaigns, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with client objectives. Manage detailed project briefs, ensuring clarity on deliverables, timelines, and team requirements to support successful execution.
- Collaboration and Coordination: Work with cross-functional teams, including creative, strategy, paid media, insights, analytics, and account management, to deliver best-in-class solutions.
- Scope and Resource Management: Oversee and communicate project SOWs, staff plans, and resource allocations, proactively addressing scope creep and ensuring appropriate talent alignment.
- Timelines and Risk Mitigation: Create and maintain accurate project timelines, escalate risks as needed, and implement solutions to keep projects on track without compromising quality or budgets.
- Financial Management: Manage account financials, including SOW development, burn rate tracking, budget reconciliation, and regular updates to stakeholders.
- Team Support and Development: Mentor junior team members and interns, foster a culture of collaboration and growth.
Qualifications:
4+ years of project management experience, preferably in an agency or integrated marketing environment.
Proven ability to lead medium-scale integrated campaigns, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams (creative, digital, PR, paid media, strategy).
Strong financial acumen and experience managing SOWs, burn reports, staffing plans, and resource allocation.
Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
Experience with creative production, video, digital, social media, and analytics deliverables.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and seniority levels.
Proficiency with project management tools like Asana, Smartsheet, or Monday.com.
Comfortable navigating ambiguity with a solutions-oriented mindset.
Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Communications, Marketing, Business).
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
Boston Salary range: $71,000 – $85,000
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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Los Angeles, California, United States
Project Manager
Description:
Weber Shandwick is seeking an experienced Project Manager to join our Los Angeles Integrated Project Management team. In this role, you’ll partner with cross-disciplined colleagues to deliver best-in-class campaigns for a range of dynamic brands. Reporting to a Director, VP, or SVP, you’ll manage medium to large-scale projects, overseeing timelines, budgets, and deliverables while driving collaboration and ensuring client satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- End-to-End Project Management:Lead the entire project lifecycle—from brief to delivery—for medium-sized and integrated campaigns, ensuring seamless execution and alignment with client objectives. Manage detailed project briefs, ensuring clarity on deliverables, timelines, and team requirements to support successful execution.
- Collaboration and Coordination:Work with cross-functional teams, including creative, strategy, paid media, insights, analytics, and account management, to deliver best-in-class solutions.
- Scope and Resource Management:Oversee and communicate project SOWs, staff plans, and resource allocations, proactively addressing scope creep and ensuring appropriate talent alignment.
- Timelines and Risk Mitigation:Create and maintain accurate project timelines, escalate risks as needed, and implement solutions to keep projects on track without compromising quality or budgets.
- Financial Management:Manage account financials, including SOW development, burn rate tracking, budget reconciliation, and regular updates to stakeholders.
- Team Support and Development:Mentor junior team members and interns, foster a culture of collaboration and growth.
Qualifications:
- 4+ years of project management experience, preferably in an agency or integrated marketing environment.
- Proven ability to lead medium-scale integrated campaigns, coordinating multi-disciplinary teams (creative, digital, PR, paid media, strategy).
- Strong financial acumen and experience managing SOWs, burn reports, staffing plans, and resource allocation.
- Exceptional organizational and time management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience with creative production, video, digital, social media, and analytics deliverables.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across disciplines and seniority levels.
- Proficiency with project management tools like Asana, Smartsheet, or Monday.com.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity with a solutions-oriented mindset.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Communications, Marketing, Business).
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: $75,000 – $90,000
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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