Senior Account Associate, Social Impact/Sustainability

We are looking for a Senior Associate, Catalyst (Account Management) to join our Chicago office. As a Sr. Associate, you will assist in coordinating and executing the day-to-day PR responsibilities for multiple large, well-known consumer clients. You will support team members with client development/management, team management, event management and account operations functions.

We are a progressive public relations agency designed to reach the profoundly diverse market. Our progressive approach aligns earned-first, data-driven creative with the customer journey, to build relevance and deliver maximum impact for our clients. To be successful with our employees and our clients, inclusion is a core value for Golin and we are focused on establishing a culture that is intentionally inclusive, profoundly diverse and uncompromisingly equitable.

Our expertise ranges from brand-building and cutting-edge campaigns, to corporate reputation, advocacy and consumer insights. 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.

Recently named PR Week's Global Agency of the Year – in both 2019 and 2020 – and winner of the industry’s first PR-led 2019 Gold Cannes Lion, 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 unlimited time off, enhanced family care, the ability to work from anywhere one day a week and a monthly generous health and wellness benefits including a monthly LifeTime stipend for the gym or hobbies. Our culture is built around happy people who are the best at what we do!

Golin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.

Sound like you want to “Go All In” with us? Here are the details: 

What You’ll Do:

• Ensure team members are kept updated on client developments
• Manage day-to-day activities across several work streams
• Participate in client and account team interaction, assist in creating client meeting and call reports, activity reports, status documents, and results reports for agency team
• Provide basic client counsel on tactical matters with supervision and develop client-facing activity reports and weekly status update documents
• Attend client meetings, observe client and account team interaction
• Manage vendors and purchasing process
• Have a strong eye for detail and quality control of ideas, client and team correspondence and plans, and media materials
• Demonstrate strong editing and analytical skills, working collaboratively with our writers and designers on communications documents and creative work
• Anticipate client and team needs and requests and provide proactive solutions
• Work with senior management, clients and legal to secure approvals/client edits on all materials
• Develop timelines, budgets and staffing plans for all projects and ensure team adheres to them
• Support the development and execution of integrated communications campaigns including events and experiential activities for media and influencers
• Develop campaign wrap reports that celebrate our successes and results
• Produce a variety of client reports, conduct competitive analysis and develop research briefs

What You Have:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2+ years of relevant experience
• Strong communicator both written and verbal with the ability to draft reports and materials
• Ability to manage multiple competing demands and deadlines
• Highly organized, adaptable and ability to be both agile and collaborative
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• A collaborative style
• Go All In attitude is a MUST!

Golin is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, disability or protected veteran status.