Account Director, Client Experience at Weber Shandwick | Chicago, IL | $95K/yr – $125K/yr

Weber Shandwick

Account Director, Client Experience

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$95K/yr – $125K/yrSenior Level6+ years expFull time

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive strategic PR for food & beverage brands, leading cross-channel campaigns and client strategy.

Must-have: 6-8+ years in PR/Communications with a big focus on food & beverage marketing/PR.
Standout: experience leading large-scale activations and earned/owned/paid media integration.
Standout: celebrity/influencer endorsements and high-profile client relationship management.

Job Description

Responsibilities

You’ll be responsible for spearheading creative, award-worthy campaigns that resonate with key audiences, ensuring our clients capture cultural relevance and media attention.
Your remit includes client strategy, operations, and activation oversight, with opportunities to leverage celebrity / influencer endorsements and marquee events.
Additional responsibilities include aligning programs and experiences with client goals, allocating agency resources to match budgets, managing a variety of work streams, providing strategic counsel to teams, and ensuring timely delivery of remarkable work.
You will also be instrumental in developing new business opportunities, media relations strategies, analytics insights, and creative storytelling concepts.
Ideally, you bring prior experience in PR, food and beverage and lifestyle industries.
You’ll be leading work tied to emerging and legacy brands, bringing bold, creative ideas, all while managing high-profile client relationships and collaborations across teams and agencies.

Requirements

6-8+ years of experience in a PR or Communications role, preferably with a large focus on food and beverage marketing/PR
Demonstrated expertise in Integrated Media Strategy and Media Relations
Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Business Management, or a related field
Proven experience working on large-scale activations, sponsorships, or campaigns that integrate earned, owned, and paid media strategies
A deep understanding of the media landscape, and cultural trends within the industry

Preferred

Celebrity / influencer endorsements experience
Prior experience in food and beverage and lifestyle industries

Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 225 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured.  Part of the Interpublic Group (NYSE: IPG), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective – the strategic communications and consulting network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/. Social Media Community Guidelines: http://bit.ly/wssocialterms

Founded in 2001

New York, NY, US

4.4K employees (1,170 in marketing)

www.webershandwick.com