Vice President, Corporate at Weber Shandwick | Chicago, IL | $0K/yr – $0K/yr

Weber Shandwick

Vice President, Corporate

Chicago, IL (On-site)

$0K/yr – $0K/yrSenior Level9+ years expFull time

Posted 5 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own cross-market client programs with strategic counsel, ensuring quality delivery and a strong reputation, while coordinating with partner agencies and finance to win work and shape executive visibility.

Own cross-market client programs and drive high-profile account delivery with strategic problem solving.
Guide media relations, executive visibility, and corporate events within an integrated agency team.
Collaborate on client content and ideation to fuel new business and client programs.

Job Description

Develop and grow positive relationships with clients, maintaining the company's reputation in terms of delivery and quality
Provide strategic counsel to clients where possible, being able to assess problems and define logical and effective solutions for clients
Lead the delivery of high-profile accounts across multiple markets
Execute client programs to support media relations, corporate event and executive visibility programs
Work successfully with partner agencies as part of a client integrated agency team, both internally at WS and externally
Work effectively with finance colleagues to deliver accurate quotations for all client projects or new business work
Write well-structured, persuasive content and help train other team colleagues to do the same
Contribute innovative ideas for the client and new business work, inspiring ideation amongst team members

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