Director Account Leader

Please note: This a hybrid role located in Chicago IL.You will have an opportunity to collaborate inperson two to three days a week at our Chicago office while maintaining flexibility for remote work.

Director Catalyst

Golin Chicago is looking for an experienced highly motivated Director Catalyst to lead integrated teams and client interface for aniconic QSR brand that is synonymous with culture.

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 Director Catalyst has an incredible opportunity to comfortably lead (with autonomy) a large cross section of smart agency and client teams (at all levels) 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.

This person will have the capes and intuitive knowhow to not only drive strategy and but also create powerful campaigns and programs to create positive impact.

In addition to leading awardwinning consumer brand campaigns you will also have a critical focus on driving deeper storytelling that breaks through in culture with diverse audiences.

This person understands what it means to EARN attention and is comfortable rolling up their sleeves on all tactical matters from media to digital to eventsand collaborate closely (leading integrated efforts) with other agency partners in the areas ofevent operations paid media) sport sponsorship activation(s). With a cando attitude you will develop and drive strategic and creative initiatives serve as the daily client goto and manage multiple members of a topnotch team on a variety of projects.

What Youll Do:

• Serve as client lead on campaign programming

• Develop comprehensive strategic integrated communication plans

• Lead day to day counsel to clients on strategic and tactical campaign matters helping to connect strategic dots across all aspects of the business.

• Proactively generate new ideas and opportunities for the development of strategic client plans and assist with the creation of related budgets

• Partner with key team members across specialist communities to develop sellin and earnedled creative; traditional media plans and social/influencer works

• Partner with and lead IAT agencies to develop integrated communications plans

• Develop an intimate knowledge of your clients business and audiences

• Design and execute mid to large scale client events and PR programs and activations

• Provide leadership and executional excellence to agency team and clients during program implementation

• Develop deep knowledge of relevant industry events

• Manage external vendors

• Assist with supervision and development of junior team members

• Work well with a variety of key internal and external stakeholders

Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in a related discipline

• 7 years of PR agency or related professional communications experience

• Proven ability to develop work that is clientready with minimal oversight

• Experience managing budgets and resources

• A collaborative spirit results driven with the capacity to manage multiple priorities and work against deadlines

• Excellent organizational and planning skills; able to work quickly under pressure handling and prioritizing multiple assignments

• Experience working on large consumer brands

• Experience managing and mentoring junior level team members

• The ability to thrive in a fastpaced environment

• Demonstrable experience leading large client projects

• Excellent writing copyediting and proofreading skills

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: $94000 $165000

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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