Vice President Director
Vice President Director
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$ 120000 - 219000
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Golin Chicago is hiring a savvy Vice President Director to be a lead business strategist for a fastpaced industryleading retail brand.
Golin has been on a winning streak of recognition: PRWeeks Best Place to Work Provoke Medias Global Agency of the Year PRWeeks Large Agency of the year and winning two Grand Prix at Cannes.
Riding the wave of recognition and awardwinning work the Vice President Director has an incredible opportunity to work as a trusted advisor to client leadership to deliver exceptional client service and sharp counsel that helps promote and protect the brand in Chicago and keep Golin on top.
Its an exciting time for the agency to continue to deliver impactful earned work that builds brands and reputations and we know other brands can benefit from the awardwinning work we create.
You will work with an integrated team of specialists to develop strategies and lead programs that generate strong results and drive the business. Youll develop and motivate a bestinclass internal team to go above and beyond for one of the agencys largest clients and one of the worlds most recognized retailers.
We are looking for a strong leader and counselor with the ability to think crossplatform and contribute to an integrated team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Serve as a daytoday lead for a share of the client portfolio representing a diverse mix of businesses to drive earnedfirst programming that deliver media and social results
- Drive strategy and client relationships leading projects clients and team and providing ongoing counsel on business and media strategies
- Showcase a strong command of both digital and traditional communication practices and strategies focusing specifically on consumer media relations and influencer engagement
- Partner directly with senior leadership to ensure cohesion in strategic planning across multiple portfolios under one master client account
- Manage all respects of finance and staffing including budgets forecasting hiring and developing scopes of work
- Bring contagious positive energy to guide and motivate staff and supervising staff members ensuring the teams success by managing work quality and productivity level
- Lead mentor coach and support team members in their goals development and career pathing
- Harness skillsets across Golins G4 model to ideate and flesh out ideas as they relate to client objectives bringing them to life in presentations and written proposals and sell them to our clients
- Contribute to the growth of our client portfolio both through organic business development for the account you will serve on as well as for the agency as needed
- Serve as a leader within the agency to further develop our offerings capabilities and growth trajectory
Growth Opportunities:
- Direct access to a large team of seasoned and talented professionals who will not only help improve your work but establish a path for you to grow within Golin long term
- Ability to work and learn crossfunctionally within a large diverse account with many different workstreams
- Onceinalifetime opportunity to hone and execute bestinclass media and client relations for a global retailer
Qualifications:
- 10 years relevant experience in communications; earned media expertise and retail or strong CPG experience is a must.
- BA/BS in Journalism English Communications Public Relations Marketing or related field is preferred
- Strong hold of the consumer media landscape and a tactfulness for knowing what drives consumer news cycles
- Ability to engage with and counsel senior level decisionmakers across the clients business and deliver connective insights to assist clients in driving alignment and of crosscompany initiatives
- Demonstrated experience working directly with clients on daytoday activities managing teams to execute public relations plans effectively and drafting and implementing communications programs within budget
- Expert problemsolving skills and an ongoing sense of resourcefulness to address multiple competing issues under tight deadlines
- Advanced knowledge of toptier business and national consumer media and welldevelopedskills in building and maintaining traditional and digital media relationships
- Superior writing skills expert in Associated Press style with the ability to develop and edit highquality materials including; communications plans media POVs press materials fact sheets bylined articles trend analysis summaries executive correspondence and presentations.
- Ability to motivate and lead a team with experience fostering team growth and development
- Collaborative spirit and ability to mobilize others to achieve a common goal while also recognizing when its needed to roll up your sleeves and do the job yourself
- Willingness to challenge clients and team members recognizing when and how to resolve gain consensus and move forward
- Experience managing all financial aspects of client business with creative ideas on how to achieve revenue goals internally
- A make it possible attitude that propels you to find an answer or solution no matter the circumstances
- Knack for building trusted relationships with clients and prospects that lead to additional incremental new business opportunities
- Versed in AI
- Open to travel
About Us:
Golin is a global public relations agency that helps companies create change that matters. Together we discover powerful human truths that bind us create with bravery and collaborate inclusively and obsessively. Golins 1700 global employees operate across 50 offices worldwide allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multimarket regional and global communications programs.
Golin is a progressive public relations agency designed to reach a profoundly diverse market. Inclusion is a core value forGolinand we are focused on establishing a culture that is intentionally inclusive potently diverse and uncompromisingly equitable.
Our expertise ranges from brandbuilding and cuttingedge digital content to corporate reputation healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earnedfirst datadriven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative integrated team model.
We tend to Go All In in everything we do. Were especially committed to going all in for our people with a comprehensive benefits and time off program. Our culture is built around happy people who are the best at what we do!
Salary Range: $120000 $219000
Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon among other factors: a candidates skills qualifications and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.
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Employment Type
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