Manager, Client Experience

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$78K/yr – $88K/yrManager3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 hrs ago

Job Summary

Owns the development and execution of integrated media strategies for healthcare and biopharma campaigns, leads strategic media relations and client counsel, and mentors the team while driving new business.

  • Owns integrated media strategy development and execution for major healthcare and public health campaigns
  • Leads media relations programs and proactive story development with a focus on client counsel
  • Mentors team and supports growth of the Healthcare Practice

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Integrated Media Strategy: Plays an important role in contributing to the development and execution of integrated media strategies for major healthcare and, biopharma and public health campaigns, thought leadership initiatives, and product launches. Understands the healthcare landscape and issues—including scientific, business, policy, media, and cultural developments—that may directly and indirectly impact our clients, integrating these insights into strategic planning. Strategic Media Relations : - Builds and maintains excellent relationships with key healthcare, science, public health, policy, and general-interest media. - Creatively and proactively develops media programs and drafts compelling story angles that translate complex healthcare topics into clear, relevant stories for target audiences, utilizing the latest AI technology tools. - Takes responsibility for executing media relations strategies and developing proposals, press releases, social copy, bylined articles, and other press materials. - Trendspotting the current news cycle and cultural landscape for ad hoc media opportunities and proactively pitches compelling ideas that advance clients’ health priorities. - Analyzes and distills meaningful insights from media coverage, sharing perspectives with both internal teams and clients to inform media strategy. Client Counsel & Collaboration: - Brings a client-focused attitude that results in work being performed to the highest quality standards. - Serves as a key day-to-day client contact, participates in meetings and presentations, communicates with clients on a daily basis, and provides thoughtful client counsel. - Conducts and manages the flow of research and work materials necessary to analyze complex client issues. Proofs and edits client-related documents to ensure the highest quality standards. Team & Agency Support: - Mentors, coaches, and develops direct reports and more junior team members, helping to cultivate their skills and drive results. Cultivates and participates in new business opportunities and pitches, contributing to the growth of the Healthcare Practice.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field.
  • 3 to 5 years of experience in a PR/communications role(s), preferably within an agency setting.
  • 1 to 2 years of experience managing/leading, small groups and projects.
  • Strong earned strategy and media relations experience with a reporter relationship roster, specifically supporting clients with relevant subject matter expertise.
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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)

Salaries

Posted range

$78K/yr – $88K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

The middle of this range ($83K) is 15% below the median base salary for Public Relations Manager roles in the United States ($98K).

Public Relations Manager median pay in the United States

$98K/yr

Most pay falls between $83K and $118K. Based on 108 salaries.

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Manager, Client Experience

Weber Shandwick · Chicago, IL · Hybrid