Weber Shandwick

Project Manager

Weber Shandwick  •  $75k - $90k/yr  •  Chicago, IL (Onsite)  •  14 days ago
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Who We Are

Weber Shandwick is more than a leading global PR agency – we’re an engagement agency and we’re working in and around the cutting edge of the new media landscape. We’re storytellers, content creators, and we engage people IN the story. Our success is built on a deep commitment to client service and to our people. We embrace creativity and collaboration, and we engage stakeholders in new and creative ways to build brands and reputations.

Manager, Project Management

Weber Shandwick is currently seeking a dedicated Project Manager, Integrated Project Management to join our winning team! In this role you will work closely with an integrated team across account, creative, influencer, social, analytics, and strategy, as well as report to a Director or VP of Project Management, to lead projects across a growing portfolio of brands.

Responsibilities:

  • Independently manage multiple small to medium-scale integrated campaigns; collaborating with internal stakeholders, coordinating with various partners and managing vendors
  • Demonstrate understanding the full project lifecycle from client brief to final delivery
  • Own and manage project lifecycle with extended team, inclusive of scoping deliverables, resource management, hour estimates, timeline development, and project requirements/processes​
  • Coordinate with creative, strategy, account management and other internal teams to help drive best-in-class solutions, deliver award winning results and mitigate risk and potential overservice
  • Manage financial performance of accounts including scopes, burn report summaries and forecasting
  • Lead internal team members on day-to-day project milestones and deliverables
  • Partner with WS account team to manage team on-boarding processes
  • Support in educating the team on roles and responsibilities, process and templates

Basic Qualifications:

  • 4+ years of project management experience, preferably in an agency setting
  • Strong financial management skills, including scoping, burn report tracking, resource allocation across project tasks
  • Demonstrated success in managing different types of programs and deliverables, such as creative ideation, social and/or digital
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong organizational and time management skills
  • Detail-oriented, proactive, and skilled at driving clarity in complex projects
  • Motivated and curious, a true team player eager to jump in, problem solve and lead teams to success
  • Proficient in Microsoft Project/Smartsheet, Excel, and PowerPoint

Salary Range: $75,000 USD – $90,000 USD

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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Weber Shandwick

About Weber Shandwick

Weber Shandwick is the earned-first global communications agency. Led by world-class strategic and creative thinkers and activators, Weber Shandwick has won some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including being named #1 in the Public Relations and Brand Strategies category on Fast Company’s 2024 + 2025 Most Innovative Companies list, one of Fast Company’s Best Workplace for Innovators in 2023, PRWeek’s 2024 Global Agency of the Year, ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2024 and honored on Ad Age’s A-List in 2025, 2024 & 2020 and Best Places to Work in 2019, in addition to being awarded Campaign Global’s PR Agency of the Year in 2023. Weber Shandwick was the most awarded PR agency at the 2023 and 2024 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity for the past three years, including earning the PR industry’s first-ever idea-led Cannes Grand Prix in the Brand Experience & Activation category and cumulatively earning more than 250 Cannes Lions. Weber Shandwick has also been named PR Agency of the Year by Campaign US in 2021, honored as PRovoke’s Global Agency of the Decade in 2020 and ranked #1 on PRovoke’s Global Creative Index in 2021 and 2022. Additionally, the firm was named PRWeek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 and was awarded PRWeek’s Purpose Agency of the Year in 2020 and 2021. Weber Shandwick also received Honorable Mention on the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Global Marketing Agencies in 2021, as the only PR agency featured. 

Part of the Omnicom Group (NYSE: OMC), Weber Shandwick is the anchor agency within The Weber Shandwick Collective (TWSC) – the strategic communications and advisory network. For more information, visit https://www.webershandwick.com/.  

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Industry
Marketing & Advertising
Company Size
1,001-5,000 employees
Headquarters
New York, NY
Year Founded
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