Vice President, Edelman Smithfield

This role is open to be based from: San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA

About Edelman Smithfield

Edelman Smithfield is a global financial communications firm with the power and scope of Edelman, the world’s largest integrated communications company. We specialize in financial markets and strategic situations, serving clients in the United States, Canada, EMEA, APAC, and beyond. Edelman Smithfield offers a deep and talented bench of approximately 250 financial market specialists across more than 25 cities and 15 countries.

About The Opportunity

Edelman Smithfield is seeking to add a smart, entrepreneurial, and constantly curious team member to our growing West Coast team. The candidate will be working on accounts and projects across the financial spectrum, ranging from retail banks and institutional asset managers to alternative asset managers and fintech clients.

We’re looking for a growth-oriented team member who understands business strategy and can contribute to and expand the ongoing growth and development of our team and practice. The candidate must also demonstrate a passion and ability for people development by mentoring, motivating, teaching and coaching others.

A Little More About What You’ll Do:

• Supervise team members by motivating, coaching and consistently providing feedback
• Collaborate with senior leadership in identifying and developing opportunities for account growth
• Build and manage relationships with clients and colleagues at all levels as well as third parties and internal business partners to meet client needs
• Drive new business growth by identifying prospects and leading proposals
• Serve as daily client contact, addressing timely client issues thoughtfully and effectively
• Plan and coordinate strategic communications programs, including earned and social media, executive position and owned content strategies
• Partner with Edelman marketing to produce intellectual property and events
• Lead multiple client accounts/projects with a focus on setting strategic direction and plans to help clients achieve goals
• Deliver superior written communications for external and internal audiences

Basic Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• At least 6+ years of relevant experience in Communications Marketing and/or related fields

Preferred Qualifications:

• Effectively motivate and manage teams and collaborate well
• Have effectively managed multiple sizable accounts or work streams, including financials
• Experience interfacing with senior executives, served as the daily client contact, and/or demonstrate solid client interaction skills
• Have driven new business proposals
• Proven ability to consistently make sound judgments, have superior written and verbal communications skills

PAY RANGE: $133,000 - $178,000

An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, travel requirements, revenue-based metrics, any contractual agreements, and business or organizational needs. The range listed is just one component of DJEH’s total compensation package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonuses, a Paid Time Off policy, and region-specific benefits.

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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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.