Responsibilities

• Strategic Client Counsel - Serve as the senior day-to-day advisor to executive-level client stakeholders.
• Strategic Client Counsel - Develop communications strategies that protect and enhance corporate reputation while supporting business objectives.
• Strategic Client Counsel - Anticipate emerging issues, identify reputational risks, and recommend proactive communications approaches.
• Strategic Client Counsel - Guide clients through periods of heightened scrutiny, public debate, operational disruption, and stakeholder concern.
• Strategic Client Counsel - Advise on executive visibility, thought leadership, corporate positioning, and narrative development.
• Issues Management & Crisis Communications - Lead complex issues management and crisis preparedness efforts across a variety of business, regulatory, operational, and reputational scenarios.
• Issues Management & Crisis Communications - Partner with clients to monitor emerging risks and rapidly activate response strategies when issues arise.
• Issues Management & Crisis Communications - Counsel senior executives through high-pressure situations requiring timely decision-making and clear communications.
• Issues Management & Crisis Communications - Collaborate across corporate communications, legal, public affairs, digital, and internal communications teams to ensure coordinated responses.
• Corporate Reputation & Public Affairs - Develop integrated campaigns that enhance trust, strengthen stakeholder relationships, and support long-term reputation objectives.

Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in corporate communications, public affairs, crisis communications, and reputation management.

Preferred

• Experience supporting clients in highly scrutinized industries facing complex regulatory, policy, labor, technology, consumer, manufacturing, or operational issues.
• Familiarity with labor and workforce-related communications, stakeholder engagement, and issues preparedness.
• Experience supporting organizations through corporate reputation, trust, privacy, technology, data, or public policy-related challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to develop integrated communications strategies that align corporate affairs, public affairs, executive positioning, and media engagement.
• Experience leading national and global communications programs across diverse stakeholder groups.

Benefits

• Individual compensation varies based on job-related factors, including location, business needs, level of responsibility, experience, and qualifications. We offer a competitive benefits package; click here for more details: https://mybenefits.wpp.com/public/welcome .