Campaign Director, PR

TEAM LEWIS; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Hybrid work environment

Generous PTO

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, and vision benefits +

life insurance (eligible day 1)

401k with employer match

Travel Programs

Up to $2k donation to a charity

Job summary

TEAM LEWIS is seeking a Campaign Director to lead senior client relationships and drive integrated marketing strategies across PR, digital, and content. You will manage campaigns, guide a team of executives, and collaborate with senior leadership to deliver innovative client services and revenue growth.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in a senior agency role, strong commercial mindset, and proven success in retaining and expanding client engagements across traditional and digital channels.

Qualifications

• Highly commercial with strong strategic client consultancy skills.
• 5+ years of experience in a B2B, corporate, consumer or digital communications agency at a Senior Campaign Manager or Campaign Director level.
• Strong in social media and integration of digital marketing into PR.

Responsibilities

• Engages in and ensures a strategic relationship with the client, providing insight and partnership across all aspects of the marketing and communications spectrum.
• Leads the new business process in collaboration with the Business Development Director, making key decisions and selling TEAM LEWIS credentials during tenders.
• Oversees online and media relations to maximize client coverage and narrative opportunities.
• Manages content strategy and quality, guiding the team to tell compelling stories across channels.
• Leads the account servicing team, sets objectives, budgets, and performance reviews.

Skills

Strategic consultancy

Client leadership

Digital / PR integration

New business growth

Team leadership

Job description

About TEAM LEWIS TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency that has grown from start-up to multi-national in a little over two decades. Its success is due to a combination of factors: talented creatives delivering award winning campaigns; expanding client relationships into new markets or services; its independence from outside investors. The agency, its people and client campaigns have won many awards, including Cannes Lions, PRovoke Media, ICCO, European Excellence, PRCA Digital, Digital Impact, Global Digital Excellence.

About TEAM LEWIS TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency that has grown from start-up to multi-national in a little over two decades. Its success is due to a combination of factors: talented creatives delivering award winning campaigns; expanding client relationships into new markets or services; its independence from outside investors. The agency, its people and client campaigns have won many awards, including Cannes Lions, PRovoke Media, ICCO, European Excellence, PRCA Digital, Digital Impact, Global Digital Excellence.

At the heart of the business is the TEAM LEWIS Foundation (TLF), a non-profit charitable entity. Since its launch in 2021, it has funded over 2,700 causes. The TLF promotes a wide variety of social, cultural, and environmental causes that benefit society. It aims to strengthen the bonds between the creative industries, businesses, government, and non-profits. Community charities are championed by employees who, in addition to the financial donation, volunteer their time and skills to maximize the grants’ effectiveness.

Purpose of the role

The Campaign Director is a senior strategic and creative client-facing position providing leadership to a team of campaign executives and campaign managers. This person will work with the senior management team to ensure that their office delivers a creative and forward-thinking client service. They are responsible for meeting client expectations and ensuring the client is kept fully up to date with critical activity on the account. In addition, they are responsible for developing that relationship by identifying and selling additional services, thereby impacting revenues and income.

Key Responsibilities And Tasks

Client Management

• Engages in and ensures a strategic relationship with the client, providing insight and partnership across all aspects of the marketing and communications spectrum
• Responsible for ensuring excellent client communication at all levels; defining KPIs, deadlines and service agreements
• Delivers an added-value consultancy and works closely with clients to deliver campaigns, services and products across traditional and emerging communications channels
• Plays an integral role in the senior management team, ensuring account profitability and optimizing the impact of revenues on the business
• Leads the new business process in collaboration with the Business Development Director, making key decisions and playing a crucial role in selling TEAM LEWIS credentials throughout the tender process

Media relations

• Maximizes media relations activity on behalf of the client via an in-depth knowledge of team networks
• Recognizes and creates media opportunities for the client in line with wider industry activity
• Shares their detailed knowledge of the media landscape with team members, operating as a significant contributor in the tech, digital and consumer space
• Utilizes their network to create and maximize client coverage, advising on potential narrative, storytelling and thought leadership opportunities
• Maximizes their team’s understanding of current affairs by promoting a commitment to understanding the news agenda

Content

• Oversees the creation of high quality and engaging content, providing knowledgeable quality control and guidance to all relevant colleagues
• Works with the client to develop and implement an impactful content strategy
• Works with the creative team to improve own and others knowledge of content trends, driving a commitment to excellent story-telling across the business

Digital / Social media

• Uses social media to recognize trends and proactively promotes new tools, solutions and processes to continuously evolve and optimize client PR campaigns across the business
• Provides social media insight as well as strategic management of client activity
• Works collaboratively with the digital team to increase the utilization and selling of digital services

Team working and development

• Takes overall leadership responsibility for the account servicing team, including coaching, supervision, assessment and reviews of all team members
• Sets strategic team objectives on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual basis
• Defines deliverable client objectives and sets standards of excellence for all client activity, driving commitment from all levels of the team
• Monitors team activity levels against budget, increasing fees and negotiating with clients and suppliers where necessary
• Plays a leading role in the new business process, project managing pitch teams and delivering credible solutions to new business challenges
• Acts as leader in guiding colleagues on how to best manage campaigns and projects
• Acts as a respected line manager, working closely with line reports to maximize strengths, improve weaknesses and support career development
• Works with the Talent team to recruit high caliber candidates into the team and develop and initiate hiring strategy in line with projected organizational requirements
• Work with the HR team to reward, retain and develop the team and resolve any performance issues

Reporting and analysis

• Ensures profitability on all accounts and effectively manages budgets
• Understands and maximizes the impact of client revenues on the business
• Communicates account performance internally and provide strategic advice to the client based on measurable analysis
• Monitors and reports on account KPIs and ensure accurate reporting by junior team members
• Provides detailed reports to the senior management team on request

General

• Runs and supports training sessions, with a view to maximizing opportunities to expand team skills and grow revenues
• Take a proactive role in promoting the TEAM LEWIS brand, its identity, values and work
• Support the HR / talent team by promoting both internal and external opportunities at TEAM LEWIS across social media and via the referral scheme
• Overall, be a guardian of best marketing practice

About You

• Highly commercial, with strong strategic client consultancy skills
• 5+ years of experience working in a B2B, corporate, consumer or digital communications agency environment at a Senior Campaign Manager or Campaign Director level
• Well versed in social media and the integration of digital marketing into the PR landscape
• A track record of retention and the profitable growth of existing accounts
• Considered, assertive and influential; a leader with the aptitude to develop and motivate a team
• Able to provide consultancy on PR requirements as well as broader marketing strategy
• Demonstrable success at securing new business and increasing client revenues

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid work environment
• Generous PTO
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits + life insurance (eligible day 1 of employment)
• 401k with employer match
• Travel Programs
• Up to $2k donation to a charity of your choice!

The expected salary range for the Campaign Director position is between $90K - $120K. Base annual salary is determined by factors such as location, experience, and expertise.

TEAM LEWIS is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating and fostering an environment focused on equality, empowerment and respect. We strive to create an inclusive workplace that supports and celebrates our diversity. We continue to invest in our efforts to ensure that TEAM LEWIS is a place where everyone can thrive.

TEAM LEWIS is a global marketing agency that has moved from start-up to multi-national in a little over two decades. Its success is due to a combination of factors: it’s ability to read the future and prepare for it; leveraging cutting edge AI; strategic thinkers delivering award winning campaigns; expanding client relationships into new markets or services; and above all, independence from outside investors. The practice, its people and its campaigns have won many awards, including Cannes Lions, PRovoke Media, ICCO, European Excellence, PRCA Digital, Digital Impact, Global Digital Excellence.

At the heart of our community is the TEAM LEWIS Foundation (TLF), a non-profit charitable entity. Since its launch in 2021, it has funded over 2,600 causes. It is one of the largest employee-directed philanthropies in the world. The TLF promotes a wide variety of social, cultural, and environmental causes that benefit society. It aims to strengthen the bonds between the creative industries, businesses, government, and non-profits. Community charities are championed by employees who, in addition to the financial donation, volunteer their time and skills to maximise grant effectiveness. You can read more here about TEAM LEWIS Foundation.