Who is Weber Shandwick?  
 
At The Weber Shandwick Collective, you are welcomed, valued and empowered to grow and we believe that opportunity grows in a collective.

We create cultural value and help brands navigate the ever-changing age of earned: an age where consumers actively say no to advertising; an age where everyone is an influencer that can make or break your brand; an age where content can be turned into commercial opportunity. Our talented team builds brands by finding connection points in the real world. We energise the right mix of talent, using the right platforms and latest technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. 

We earn affection, attention, affinity and purchase by delivering value to people around the world, with deep specialisms across food & drink, travel & tourism, consumer tech, consumer health, automotive, sports sponsorship, entertainment & lifestyle and energy. We are known for: 

• Developing data driven insights and strategies to drive measurable impact   

• Creating impactful campaigns that tap into culture   

• Creating channel and platform agnostic campaigns that grow organically  

• Delivering integrated campaigns that are earned-first but deliver for paid and owned   

What’s happening? 

Weber Shandwick is looking for a talented Social Account Director who wants to be part of the Brand practice in our London office.  

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following key attributes: 
 
CLIENT SOLUTIONS AND WORK 

• Strategic Leadership: Act as the primary senior consultant for clients, driving integrated social and advertising strategies that align with their broader business objectives. 

• Partnership Cultivation: Establish enduring trust-based relationships with senior level stakeholders that transcend the immediate scope of work. 

• Operational Orchestration: Manage diverse workstreams, budgets, and timelines while mobilising integrated specialists across Creative, Design, and Production to deliver work that pushes boundaries.  
• Value Demonstration: Champion a culture of rigorous reporting and analysis to ensure partners clearly see the tangible impact and ROI of our creative and strategic output. 

LEADERSHIP AND TALENT MANAGEMENT 

• Talent Incubation: Mentor, coach, and elevate direct reports, guiding their professional trajectories while driving high performance outcomes across the team. 

• Inclusive Culture: Champion agency DEI initiatives and cultivate an equitable environment that attracts, retains, and empowers a diverse array of talent. 

• Cross Network Collaboration: Forge productive partnerships internally and across interagency networks, modelling behaviours that support seamless organisational integration. 

• Continuous Evolution: Actively engage in leadership and cultural competency training to continually refine management capabilities and foster a happy and safe workplace. 

 

COMMERCIAL ACUMEN AND GROWTH 

• Commercial Rigour and Efficiency: Oversee programme profitability, precise billing, and strategic resource allocation while partnering with project management to negotiate scopes of work. 

• Organic Expansion: Cultivate a sound understanding of clients’ business challenges to proactively identify and convert growth opportunities within existing portfolios. 

• Pitch Leadership: Drive new business acquisition and collaborate effectively across practice areas including Brand, Analytics, Corporate and more to deliver compelling integrated pitches. 

• Network Integration: Leverage the full breadth of the agency matrix, seamlessly introducing cross practice offerings to address emerging stakeholder needs.  

 
Ideal Experience Profile: 

• Strong experience within creative, social, media, or PR agencies, underpinned by a deep passion for social media innovations. 

• Proven track record of managing senior client relationships and diplomatically negotiating complex requirements. 

• Exceptional organisational abilities to prioritise multiple high volume workstreams on time and on budget. 
• Resilient management experience, demonstrating the ability to guide teams and take a hands-on approach to ensure success. 

Join us and help make an impact.  
 
Together, we’ll set the bar, cheer each other on and multiply your potential. 

Core Benefits:

• Private medical insurance
• Group life assurance
• Group income protection
• Personal pension plan
• Employee Assistance Programme

Flexible Benefits:

• Buy or sell holiday
• Additional life assurance cover
• Critical illness insurance
• Personal Accident Insurance
• Dental insurance
• Travel insurance
• Health screening
• Gym discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Health cash plan
• Flexible working with our 3:2 hybrid work model
• Equivalent of $250 USD for new joiners on 6 month + contract to support home working setup
• 25 days’ annual leave (in addition to public holidays) plus 2 volunteering days, birthday day off work and discretionary festive closure
• Flexible public holidays
• Dedicated Business Resource Groups including Women of Weber, Decoded (Global Majority network), and PRISM (LGBTQIA+)
• Sweets and snacks in the office
• Exclusive shopping discounts and perks
• Annual eyecare voucher
• Season ticket loan
• Referral bonus scheme
• Long service bonus
• Enhanced family leave
• Inclusive and invisible health policies

 

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships

Who is Weber Shandwick?  
 
At The Weber Shandwick Collective, you are welcomed, valued and empowered to grow and we believe that opportunity grows in a collective.

We create cultural value and help brands navigate the ever-changing age of earned: an age where consumers actively say no to advertising; an age where everyone is an influencer that can make or break your brand; an age where content can be turned into commercial opportunity. Our talented team builds brands by finding connection points in the real world. We energise the right mix of talent, using the right platforms and latest technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. 

We earn affection, attention, affinity and purchase by delivering value to people around the world, with deep specialisms across food & drink, travel & tourism, consumer tech, consumer health, automotive, sports sponsorship, entertainment & lifestyle and energy. We are known for: 

• Developing data driven insights and strategies to drive measurable impact  
• Creating campaigns that lead to impactful change
• Creating channel and platform agnostic campaigns that grow organically  

What’s happening? 

Weber Shandwick Scotland is excited to be seeking a talented Manager to join our Public Affairs team. This role can be based in Glasgow or Edinburgh. 

Working across a portfolio of leading businesses, you will be delivering campaigns that help our clients to navigate an unprecedented time of political change and uncertainty. 

This role will offer great exposure to our clients in Scotland and the UK. The ideal candidates will be passionate about politics, and interested in the Scottish and UK political landscape, and have a desire to work on the cutting edge of the way politics impacts global businesses. 

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following key attributes: 
 
CLIENT AND WORK 

• Lead and support teams across a range of public affairs and issues management campaigns on behalf of corporate, coalition and trade association clients, across energy, transport and other highly regulated industries
• Start to develop a thorough understanding of how to design and implement public affairs campaigns on behalf of corporate and trade association clients, with an emphasis on highly-regulated industries
• Build client relationships by providing counsel to multiple clients, driving execution of tactical plans and managing internal integrated teams to ensure high quality deliverables
• Successfully manage client expectations ensuring adherence to timelines, budgets and quality standards; Manage clients, team resources and deliverables around major campaigns and programs
• Serve as key participant in client meetings and presentations; craft, present and execute integrated engagement strategies for major campaigns
• Conduct and manage the flow of research and materials development necessary to analyze client issues  
• Monitor parliaments, governments and policy developments for client risks and opportunities
• Understand policy and industry issues that directly and indirectly affect the client
• Compose client materials (briefings, messaging documents, written outreach, stakeholder maps)
• Proof and edit client related documents 

SELF LEADERSHIP AND TEAM EFFECTIVENESS 

• Mentor and trains junior team members
• Consistently display behaviors that support integration 

GROWTH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 

• Participate in brainstorms and planning
• Contribute to new business pitch content creation and organic business growth efforts (proactive/reactive) 

BUSINESS ACUMEN 

• Continue to grow financial acumen by managing budgets, assisting with account budget and time entry analyses, and supporting account invoicing
• Work more closely with manager and finance to better understand any client issues that may impact the business
• Begin working with legal on vendor agreements 

Minimum Criteria: 

To be considered for this role, you must have experience developing and delivering effective public affairs and issues management campaigns in the Scottish political landscape.  
 
Ideal Experience Required: 

Ideally you will possess many of the above skills and attributes in addition to:

• Experience of affecting policy change either in-house or in a consultancy environment
• Experience of managing projects independently
• With a passion for politics, you know how to make a strong case that will win the argument, and have a track record of developing and delivering effective campaigns 
• Unafraid to ask questions and to challenge clients’ and colleagues’ perspectives when necessary  
• An active interest in politics and current affairs 
• Able to analyse complex information and understand how it relates to the political agenda  

Join us and help make an impact.  
 
Together, we’ll set the bar, cheer each other on and multiply your potential. 

 

At Weber Shandwick we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.  

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Who is Weber Shandwick?  
 
At The Weber Shandwick Collective, you are welcomed, valued and empowered to grow and we believe that opportunity grows in a collective. 

We create cultural value and help brands navigate the ever-changing age of earned: an age where consumers actively say no to advertising; an age where everyone is an influencer that can make or break your brand; an age where content can be turned into commercial opportunity. Our talented team builds brands by finding connection points in the real world. We energise the right mix of talent, using the right platforms and latest technology to choreograph stories that make a real and meaningful impact for some of the world’s leading brands and businesses. 

We earn affection, attention, affinity and purchase by delivering value to people around the world, with deep specialisms across food & drink, travel & tourism, consumer tech, consumer health, automotive, sports sponsorship, entertainment & lifestyle and energy. We are known for: 

 

• Developing data driven insights and strategies to drive measurable impact   

• Creating impactful campaigns that tap into culture   

• Creating channel and platform agnostic campaigns that grow organically  

• Delivering integrated campaigns that are earned-first but deliver for paid and owned   

 
What’s happening? 

We are looking to appoint an experienced Vice President (Associate Director level) to join the leadership team within our Consumer practice. This is a fantastic opportunity to join a successful team and take the next step up in your career at an award-winning global agency. 

To be successful in this role you will be highly organised and an excellent communicator. You will have a natural motivation to deliver award-winning creative work that is original, thought-provoking and conversation starting. Alongside this, your strong leadership skills will help to develop talent within the team, delivering quality work that sets industry benchmarks. In this role, you must be able to demonstrate how you create exciting, ground-breaking consumer PR and social ideas to deliver outstanding results. 

As a Vice President, you will have a proven track record of overall responsibility for managing a large team and budget, the ability to be one step ahead, to plan and anticipate, as well as having a great eye for detail. A key requirement for this role will be your ability to build strong client relationships and drive new business. You will be responsible for working closely with clients and account teams to lead strategic planning and overseeing innovative communication campaigns.  

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following key attributes: 
 
CLIENT AND WORK 

• Serve as key integrated team member on client and inter-agency teams
   
• Counsel and interact effectively with senior management at client organizations 

• Craft and tell compelling stories 

• Lead story mining sessions with subject matter experts and client executives develop news-making story angles that drive coverage results 

• Build and maintain excellent relationships with national and regional technology reporters 

• Counsel junior members of the team to effectively work with the media 

• Allocate agency resources in accordance with our client’s budget 

• Bring a client-focused attitude that results in work being performed to the highest quality standards 

LEADERSHIP AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT 

• Mentor, coach and develop direct reports to deliver high performance while supporting personal and professional development goals 

• Actively participate in the hiring and onboarding of talent; Support and develop processes to enhance inclusive hiring practices for team 

• Establish interpersonal relationships within and outside of department, with focus on building inclusive culture and mentoring colleagues outside of personal relationships 

• Promote the development and advancement of underrepresented groups in team through professional development trainings 

• Participate in trainings build own cultural competency and ability to lead, coach and develop diverse teams 

• Actively participate in office or agency DEI initiatives to attract and retain diverse talent 

GROWTH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT 

• Identify new areas of growth with existing clients and introduce specialists to expand assignments; Actively participate in new business pitches 

BUSINESS ACUMEN 

• Responsible for executional leadership of multiple client programs and budgets 

• Manage ongoing team resourcing/staffing to ensure successful delivery of work product 

• Collaborate with project management to support development of staff plans and new scopes of work and updates on scope management 

• Develop and advance industry/sector leadership 

• Work with legal on development of client contracts 

• Consistently partner with finance team on all client business matters (contracts, SOW, out of scope, overservice, client profitability, etc) 

 

Minimum Criteria: 

To be considered for this role, you must have an established track record of working at an equivalent level on consumer campaigns in an agency environment.  

 
Ideal Experience Required: 

Ideally you will possess many of the above skills and attributes in addition to:

• Extensive Consumer PR experience to at least SAD/Associate Director level, gained within an agency 

• Strong senior client counsel / internal stakeholder counsel experience, strategic communications and business development experience  

• Proven writing experience that is adaptable across channels  

• Strategic, multichannel experience – ability to understand audiences and plan campaigns  

• International experience is highly desirable  

• Ability to manage a team – strong leadership and management skills are essential  

• Crisis communications/issues management experience 

• Passionate about storytelling and developing original and compelling content for clients  

• Strong interest and POV on the changing landscape of PR and how people learn about and engage with brands  

Join us and help make an impact.  
 
Together, we’ll set the bar, cheer each other on and multiply your potential. 

  

At Weber Shandwick we are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.  

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