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Director, Account Lead, Corporate Affairs Practice

Chicago, Illinois, United States

 

Golin is seeking a collaborative, results-driven Director to join our Corporate Affairs practice, supporting key B2B and financial services clients. In this role, you’ll serve as a day-to-day client lead and strategic counselor, bringing together corporate reputation expertise, strong media savvy, and cross-functional project management skills to drive outstanding results.  

 

As a Director, you will act as a day-to-day client counselor, supporting account operations financial services and B2B/Tech sectors. We are looking for someone with strong corporate reputation expertise and a proven track record who can guide teams, deliver ongoing strategic counsel to clients and execute impactful communications programs that deliver measurable results.  

 

You are enthusiastic about the work and leading team members, a trusted and confident client relationship leader and subject matter expert in financial services and B2B communications.  

 

Please note - While our preference would be candidate located in Chicago, we are open to other cities for the ideal candidate. 

 

Ready to "Go All In" with us? Here are the details: 

 

What You’ll Do: 

• Lead Day-to-Day Account Management: Oversee daily account operations for Corporate Affairs clients, managing strategic communications, client relations and program execution across client programs. 

• Drive Strategic Account Direction: Partner with account leadership to develop and implement effective communications strategies that deliver measurable results. 

• Provide Team Leadership: Supervise and mentor junior staff while fostering a collaborative environment across account teams. 

• Build Client Relationships: Cultivate strong client partnerships through consistent communication, proactive problem-solving, and exceptional service. 

• Demonstrate Strategic and Proactive Thinking: Actively identify potential problems or risks with your clients, offering thoughtful and informed solutions to clients.  

• Support Issues & Crises: As an account leader, work with Golin’s specialists to provide account perspective and counsel through issues & crises as they arise.  

• Manage Financial Oversight: Support senior account leads by providing financial oversight to ensure projects remain aligned with business objectives and budgets. 

• Streamline Project Management: Efficiently track requests, coordinate research, compile reports, manage timelines, and mobilize team resources to meet deadlines and exceed client expectations. 

• Bridge Communication Gaps: Serve as the critical link between senior leadership and support teams to maintain efficient workflows and clear communication channels. 

• Support Large Scale Integrated PR Campaigns: Contribute expertise to multi-channel campaigns including earned media relations, owned, paid and influencer partnerships that complement broader client goals. Participate in IAT planning efforts, ensuring PR and earned plays a significant role in all campaigns. 

• Foster Growth: Alongside account leadership, identify proactive opportunities to grow the account by blending agency innovations with client needs. 

 

 What You Have: 

• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or related field
• 8+ years’ experience, in an agency/client-facing role or we welcome in-house corporate communications background   

• A background in reputation management; experience in financial services a plus 

• 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, internal communications, business media relations and executive communications 

• Ability to partner with team to execute and measure multifaceted campaigns and day-to-day communications initiatives 

• A strong understanding of traditional media, and ability to integrate campaign strategies and tactics across earned, owned and paid media 

• Creative problem-solver and storyteller with superior writing skills, with the ability to develop and edit high-quality materials 

• Poised and calm under pressure and a desire to immerse yourself in a client's business to become a true partner 

• Believer in a strong workplace culture, and will 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 

 

Why Work for Us?  

 

We are 1,600 bright and eager individuals collaborating in more than 40 cities around the globe. Some in offices, some working remotely. Regardless of our geographies, our passion for collaboration is the #1 reason clients and colleagues enjoy working with us.  

Collaboration isn’t new for us…it started 60 years ago when our founder insisted that personal egos be set aside for the greater good of the agency. He knew great work starts with inspired teamwork. And inspired teamwork is how we get clients and colleagues to join us and stay for decades, and how we launch brands, build careers, win awards like PR Week’s Global Agency of the Year – three years in a row - all while creating everlasting friendships.  

Together, we will make the best work of our lives and create change that matters. If this mission sounds like something you could wake up to every morning, then read on.  

 

About Golin 

 

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. 

Recently named 2024 PRWeek’s Agency of the Year, we tend to Go All In, in everything we do. We’re especially committed to going all in for our people. We challenge our employees to be courageously happy and have empowered them to do so by offering our LifeTime benefits program. LifeTime offers flexible time off, enhanced family care, generous health and wellness benefits, workplace hybrid flexibility, and a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies. 

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 G4 Model to deliver maximum impact for clients. Our roster includes many of the largest CPG, retail, food, healthcare technology and consumer service companies in the world.   

Salary range: $94,000 - $165,000

Golin has included the base salary range or hourly rate for this role. Actual compensation offered within the range will depend upon, among other factors: a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience; actual ranges for current or former employees in the role; and market considerations.

Any request to schedule an interview and any legitimate offer of employment will only come from an authorized representative of Golin. We will never require an applicant to provide sensitive personally identifiable information in order to conduct an interview.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

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