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Senior Account Executive, Corporate Affairs
Chicago, IL (Hybrid Work Structure)
The Role:
BCW is looking for a Senior Account Executive to join our Chicago team. This person will be a creative thinker and collaborative team player who can drive the execution of campaigns, get earned media results, and effectively manage projects for a variety of corporate clients. Candidates should have experience with supporting integrated communications programs for organizations ideally in food and beverage, financial, and manufacturing spaces.
You will be serving as one of the daily points-of-contact and counsel for traditional PR and digital media programs. This is an opportunity to combine creative and strategic execution for campaigns across multiple platforms for high-profile brands and have an impact on the culture of our growing Chicago corporate team.
Who wexe2x80x99re looking for:
If youxe2x80x99re solutions-oriented and earned-media savvy, BCW is a place where youxe2x80x99ll thrive.
And while there is no one kind of BCW person, everyone at BCW has something in common: A mindset, a way of responding to challenges with openness, curiosity and a commitment to learning. BCW will feed that drive by rewarding courageous tenacity and nurturing your dynamic career.
What is the work?
- Media and Content (traditional, digital, social) key message development and campaign management
- Development of written content including bylines and news releases
- Creation and review of media materials (e.g. pitch letters, news releases, backgrounders, fact sheets, bios, newsletters)
- Bringing fresh thinking to earned media strategy and brand storytelling to deliver coverage results
- Managing projects on account teams, communicating across levels and geographies
- Partnering with Client and other communications firms to develop and complete integrated communications plans
- Contributing to program development for Clients as well as researching, designing, developing, implementing and managing routine client projects
- Managing day-to-day client activities, projects, and team member workstreams
- Building trusted adviser relationship with clients
- Providing strategic counsel to clients and key internal stakeholders
- Contributing new ideas as they relate to client objectives and brings them to life in presentations and written proposals
- Serving as point-of-contact for reporters, representing the Client brand in press releases and timely response to media inquiries
- Managing project financials; client budgets, team capacity planning and vendor management
- Assisting senior leaders in proposal writing and new business pitching and requests for proposals
Experience that contributes to your success:
- 3+ years of work experience in the Public Relations field
- Excellent writing and editing skills
- Expertise in integrated media relations programs with established relationships with local, trade and national press outlets
- Ability to understand complexities of audiences and nuancing strategy, messaging and tactics for each
- Experience with influencer relations
- Advanced presentation skills, strong and persuasive communicator
- Strong project management skills
Perks of working at BCW:
- Paid time off for vacation, sick and personal days, as well as Summer Fridays. Our Flexible Holiday Policy includes 9 paid holidays inclusive of Juneteenth and World Mental Health Day, with the option to swap out a company holiday for another personally significant day. We also offer paid time off for voting, jury duty, bereavement and school leave. In addition, our offices are closed for Winter Break between Christmas Eve and New Yearxe2x80x99s Day.
- 12 weeks paid Parental Leave to bond with your new child, also inclusive of adoption and foster care.
- Wellness benefits including healthcare, vision, dental and pet insurance, as well as free virtual or in-person counselling for mental health.
- 401K Savings and Investment Plans
- Commuter benefits using pre-tax dollars per month to pay for eligible commuting & parking expenses
- WPP Employee Discount Program based on client roster
- Career growth opportunities through continued education, training & development courses, and BCWxe2x80x99s Career Pathing program.
- Employee Resource Groups that provide our employees the platform to network, build key leadership skills, gain greater visibility and access to senior leadership, have an impact at BCW and the outside community and accelerate their careers.
About BCW:
BCW is part of WPPxe2x80x99s global, multi-faceted, multi-talented creative engine, with access to countless opportunities to grow.
BCWxe2x80x99s commitment to moving people starts with our employees. Youxe2x80x99ll find ways to ignite your growth while doing meaningful work for exceptional clients in an environment that prioritizes your success, compels collaboration and celebrates learning. Wexe2x80x99re committed to moving our people forward in their careers and helping them grow as people and professionals.
We wholly believe that our diversity is our strength and feeds the creativity critical to success, so Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accountability (I.D.E.A.) are embedded into everything we do for our people, agency, clients and the communities we serve. We strongly encourage applications from talent across all dimensions of race/ethnicity and the LGBTQIA+ spectrum, differently abled and veteran communities.
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BCW is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EEO, AAE, MF/Disability/Vet, and we are proud of our diverse workforce.
Our organization participates in E-Verify. E-Verify is an Internet-based system that compares information from an employee’s Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification, to data from U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration records to confirm employment eligibility.
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