Our Corporate Reputation team is a group of 100+ corporate communications and public affairs 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 Senior Account Supervisor 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 Reputation 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:

• Counsel clients based on broad communications landscape and business goals
• Drive strategic direction to help clients tell relevant and impactful stories around issues driving conversations today
• Drive earned media relations including creating outreach plans, media strategy, message development, management of events, coordination of media tours, effective pitching and training of spokespersons on speeches and presentations and growth of contact network
• Demonstrate tactical proficiency in thought leadership, executive positioning, and stakeholder engagement programs
• Help lead operational and financial performance of account teams, ensuring quality work and effective processes 
• Demonstrate advanced writing skills and supervise writing of others
• Lead staff by mentoring, motivating, coaching, and consistently providing feedback to more junior team members
• Contribute to business growth through introducing clients to new capabilities and aiding in new business research and proposal preparation

About you:

• Possess 5 or more years’ experience in agency and/or in-house communications roles
• Have developed and executed successful earned media relations programs
• Advanced writing, editing, and presentation development skills
• Ideally have experience or understanding of digital communications and community management, specifically when it comes to managing social content for C-Suite or top-tier executives
• Have strong client management and consultative skills
• Possess excellent leadership skills, are a superb people manager, and enjoy coaching and mentoring junior staff 
• Have a strong understanding of how to communicate with teams and work from both client and agency perspectives
• Have experience successfully managing resources and budgets 
• Have interest in helping win new business

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Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age’s 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report’s 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

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