Sr Manager - Corporate Affairs

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

Corporate Affairs Senior Manager, Catalyst 

Do you want to work with an agency team and clients who are ahead of the curve? Do you have experience creating powerful campaigns and programs to create positive change that matters?

Golin is hiring an experienced Senior Manager with strong corporate affairs expertise across external communication audiences and channels. The ideal candidate is enthusiastic about the work and leading team members, committed to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), a trusted and confident client relationship leader, and a collaborative partner.  

Golin has been on a winning streak of recognition: PRWeek’s Best Place to Work, Provoke Media’s Global Agency of the Year, PRWeek’s Large Agency of the year and winning two Grand Prix at Cannes.  

Riding the wave of recognition and award-winning work, the Senior Manager has an incredible opportunity to work as day-to-day lead and provide and corporate communications counsel for a roster of historic and iconic global brands that helps promote and protect the brand in Chicago and keep Golin on top.  

It’s 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 award-winning work we create. 

Please note: Preferred location is Chicago  

What You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field with 7+ years’ experience. Must have worked in an agency in a client-facing role and welcome in-house corporate communications background  
• Experience in financial services a must
• Passion for client service and an ability to juggle multiple projects and changing priorities
• Proven ability to lead an integrated team and drive development of integrated ideas/business solutions
• Background developing and executing corporate reputation programs, including corporate positioning, business media relations and executive communications
• Ability to partner with team to execute and measure multifaceted creative PR campaigns and day-to-day communications initiatives
• Experience managing influencer programs, including identifying and vetting, project managing and reviewing content
• A strong understanding of traditional media, and ability to integrate campaign strategies and tactics across earned, owned and paid media
• Superior writing skills to creatively problem-solve and tell captivating stories, with the ability to develop and edit high-quality materials
• Ability to stay poised and calm under pressure and a desire to immerse yourself in a client's business to become a true partner
• A willingness to foster a strong, diverse and inclusive workplace culture and advocate for and contribute to efforts that enhance the environment for all 
• Ability to identify and drive opportunity for growth with existing clients and participate in new business pitches with strategy, creative counsel and presentation support

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the day-to-day account management of corporate clients, ensuring integrated teams (traditional media, social media, creative, analytics) provide a high standard of client service
• Maintain a big-picture strategic view of client business and help to develop programs that support client business goals
• Help to lead account planning, reporting, budgets, resource management and client satisfaction/feedback
• Develop integrated communication strategies and tactics
• PR Campaign management to ensure operational excellence (oversee the project management from creative concepting to execution, delegating work to account associate as needed, coordinated integrated earned and social media specialist teams)
• Influencer program management (administrative and contract management of influencers, coordination with creative/influencer specialist team on execution)
• Provide outstanding client counsel to all client levels on a regular basis, thriving in a hands-on, collaborative environment
• Provide effective counsel (written and verbal), manage expectations against results, troubleshoot and be proactive in identifying industry trends, challenges and opportunities, and ensure flawless execution of day-to-day client activities
• Write, review and edit client deliverables
• Responsible to oversee billability and client profitability 

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. Golin’s 1700+ global employees operate across 50+ offices worldwide, allowing us to provide our clients with comprehensive solutions for multi-market, regional and global communications programs. 

Golin is a progressive public relations agency designed to reach a profoundly diverse market. Inclusion is a core value for Golin, and we are focused on establishing a culture that is intentionally inclusive, potently diverse, and uncompromisingly equitable.   

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge digital content to corporate reputation, healthcare advocacy and measurement. Golin aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey through our collaborative integrated team model.