Vice President, Corporate Reputation

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We’re a team of nearly 100 corporate communications professionals servicing some of the world’s best-recognized brands working across the professional services, food and beverage, retail, and healthcare sectors. We help our clients communicate their most pressing business challenges to a wide stakeholder set, ultimately expanding their corporate reputation. From the World Economic Forum to Milken and Fast Company festivals, we are on the pulse of the best places for our clients and executives to be seen.

While we help clients with the day-to-day, we look around corners to help future proof their businesses. We’re involved in creative, integrated work across Edelman bringing a cohesive communications marketing team. We support clients to execute campaigns that enhance their credibility on an issue and influence audience perception and actions. We develop narratives that empower an organization to get its message across in a meaningful and impactful way.

You’ll be joining a team of dedicated professionals who equally enjoy being on the forefront of business challenges and driving client results as much as they do working with each other. This is a collaborative, supportive environment in which to develop the next phase of your career. At its core, Edelman is an entrepreneurial agency – a boutique at scale providing the opportunity to build your own career path within a diverse, global environment.

Overview Of The Role

As a Vice President on the Corporate Reputation team, you are a big-picture thinker, but also able to turn big ideas into action. You’re comfortable leveraging any channel in the marketing mix and have a proven track record in media relations. You demonstrate superior communication skills, charisma and executive presence. You are hungry to learn and evolve personally, and undaunted by change or complexity. You will work with your colleagues across Corporate Affairs and in close partnership with your peers across the agency including our Brand, Digital, Planning and Creative teams.

We're looking for a driven professional, who can provide expert and creative client counsel, while inspiring and leading teams to build culture, up-level client work, expand our collective capability, and drive growth.

What You'll Do:

• Provide solutions to help our clients navigate their most pressing reputational issues
• Serve as campaign manager for a large scale, highly visible client account, overseeing integrated media and thought leadership programs
• Display superior presentation skills including confidence in presenting to clients
• Lead development of communications playbooks, plans and earned media strategy
• Set and lead traditional and integrated media relations programs
• Manage strategic process of pitching stories and/or responding to media inquiries (focus on corporate communications and executive visibility)
• Be a consumer of news – help identify media trends/interests, what “works” with top media
• Lead operational and financial performance of account teams, ensuring quality work, effective processes and that client requests are handled in a timely and strategic fashion
• Counsel clients based on broad communications landscape and business goals; take immediate action on client feedback
• Demonstrate advanced writing skills and supervise writing of others
• Lead staff by mentoring, motivating, coaching, consistently providing feedback, holding them accountable and conducting their reviews and overseeing their professional development
• Capitalize on, and contribute to, the Edelman global network to serve and grow business
• Lead new business development, RFP responses and client acquisitions
  
  
  

About You:

• Have at least 8 years of relevant experience in communications, public relations, or journalism
• Have a track record of leading profitable programs that have advanced client business goals
• Have strong contacts and working relationships with local and national news media
• Have a strong understanding of how to communicate with teams and work from both client and agency perspectives
• Are a superb people manager, enjoy coaching and mentoring junior staff
• Demonstrate advanced writing, editing and presentation-development skills; project management skills; and consultative skills (including effective questioning, critical thinking, client management and communication methodology application)
• Passionate about client service, new ways of thinking, and team work
• Bring a commitment to advancing the vision of the Edelman Corporate practice both internally and externally
• Love to pitch, present, and win new business
  
  
  

Edelman is committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We welcome and encourage racially and ethnically diverse people, members of the LGBTQ community, veterans, parents, individuals with disabilities and members of any and all protected classes to apply.