Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning

Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning (New York City)

We are looking for a strategic leader with a passion for consumer brands.

At Weber Shandwick, you will leverage data, insights, and your extensive experience to craft innovative cultural-driven strategies that engage audiences and elevate our clients’ brands with an earned-first mindset and mandate. If you thrive in a collaborative environment and are excited to challenge the status quo, this is the perfect opportunity for you!

Primary Responsibilities

Lead Strategic Output: Oversee the quality of strategic deliverables for key client relationships, ensuring every brief, narrative and point of view resonates with consumer audiences and aligns with our strategic goals. Work on core accounts to drive growth and ensure consistency of strategy across our portfolio of brand accounts.

Champion Insight Discovery: Innovate and enhance methods for uncovering insights and measuring success, ensuring our strategies are data-driven and culturally savvy while showcasing boundary-pushing ideas.

Work Through Complex Issues: Manage large clients, programs, and campaigns, fluidly navigating client-side organizational realities and delivering impact against client objectives and business metrics.

Deliver Outstanding Client Experiences: Immerse yourself in the client's business and industry dynamics. Build proactive relationships with senior clients as a trusted advisor, bringing impactful and provocative thinking to engagements.

Inspire and Mentor Diverse Teams: Create space and opportunities for our high-performing team of planners and subject matter experts who share your passion for consumer brands. Proactively pipeline talent and cultivate an inclusive culture that values diverse voices.

Enhance Agency Reputation: Help build thought leadership and share/track best practices, case studies, and ideas that spark creativity and drive results.

Drive Business Development: Identify opportunities for growth and evolution, actively participating in new business avenues that align with our strategic vision and client needs.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in strategic planning, with a strong emphasis on consumer brands, preferably within an agency setting.
• Proven expertise in PR, advertising, and digital channels (social media, content, video, media, influencer marketing) that drive consumer engagement.
• Exceptional presentation and storytelling skills, with the ability to weave insights into compelling narratives that resonate with diverse audiences.
• Demonstrated experience in mentoring high-performing teams, fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Self-motivated and endlessly curious, with an entrepreneurial spirit that embraces challenges and drives innovation…all while ensuring we have a good time doing what we’re doing!
  
  

Join us at Weber Shandwick, where your ideas can flourish, your voice matters, and together, we can create impactful strategies that resonate with consumers and transform brands. If you’re ready to make a difference, we want to hear from you!

The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401k (with employer match)
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Juice Money - $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
• MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
• Short-Term Disability
• Paid Employee Family Leave
• Family Building Benefit
  
  

NYC Salary range: $170,000 - $225,000

Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.

Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.

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