Senior Account Executive – Sustainability & Corporate Affairs

Burson; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Burson, part of WPP, seeks a Senior Account Executive for our Workplace & Purpose team, focusing on corporate impact, sustainability storytelling and corporate communications. This generalist role will grow expertise in purpose communications while supporting broader corporate reputation work.

You will help clients articulate complex issues, bring corporate impact programs to life through strategic storytelling with employees, investors and communities, and manage media relations, messaging and

Qualifications

• Approximately 2–3 years of relevant communications experience.
• Hands-on media relations experience, including building media lists and directly pitching reporters.
• Strong writing and content-development skills.
• Experience or demonstrated interest in sustainability, climate, corporate impact, ESG, public affairs or related topics.
• The ability to speak credibly about climate and sustainability topics and quickly learn technical subject matter.
• A communications background; experience focused only on program development without communications execution will not be sufficient for this role.
• Curiosity, eagerness and a track record of learning quickly.
• A flexible, generalist mindset and willingness to work across a range of clients and business issues.
• The judgment to work constructively with organizations whose practices or perspectives may not fully align with your own, helping them advance their goals responsibly.
• Experience pitching sustainability or social-impact media.
• Public affairs, policy, advocacy or government experience paired with communications and media-relations skills.
• Exposure to employee communications, change management, employer brand or community-engagement work.
• Familiarity with ESG reporting or related frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute communications programs across corporate impact, sustainability, corporate affairs and employee engagement.
• Build targeted media lists and pitch sustainability, social impact, business and corporate media.
• Write clear, compelling content, including pitches, messaging, memos, plans and other client materials.
• Conduct research and turn complex climate, policy and business topics into accessible communications.
• Support storytelling around community engagement, corporate partnerships, ESG and sustainability initiatives.
• Contribute to issues-management work involving evolving expectations, regulations and stakeholder priorities.
• Collaborate across disciplines, including public affairs, corporate communications and employee engagement.
• Help manage day-to-day client work, priorities and deliverables across a varied account portfolio.]
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Skills

Media relations

Writing

Sustainability

Public affairs

Flexibility

Job description

Burson, part of WPP, seeks a Senior Account Executive for our Workplace & Purpose team, focusing on corporate impact, sustainability storytelling and corporate communications. This generalist role will grow expertise in purpose communications while supporting broader corporate reputation work.

You will help clients articulate complex issues, bring corporate impact programs to life through strategic storytelling with employees, investors and communities, and manage media relations, messaging and