Vice President, Corpsumer
About the role
Golin Ketchum is looking for a Vice President, Consumer to join our team. Formed in 2026 from the merger of two iconic PR agencies, Golin Ketchum combines fearless creative and strategic excellence, fueled by Omnicom’s industry‑leading data and AI solutions, to uncover powerful insights and execute work that builds and protects the world’s greatest companies. With specialized expertise across consumer and brands, corporate affairs, healthcare, technology, and food, agriculture and nutrition, we deliver integrated, high‑impact communications services at scale. At Golin Ketchum, culture matters. We are fiercely ambitious yet fundamentally kind and collaborate obsessively with the best clients in the world.
Responsibilities
- Drive teams to deliver programs and projects with accuracy and timeliness.
- Pick up the phone and speak with clients to understand and deliver what they need.
- Manage teams and budgets on sizable accounts, ensuring excellent quality work, seamless client service, incremental growth, and employee development.
- Multitask efficiently with excellent communication, writing, editing, social/media relations skills; spot trends and apply various measurement tools.
- Act as primary contact to clients, continually fostering client‑agency relationships to build trust and become a valuable resource.
- Provide strategic guidance to clients on an ongoing basis on program strategy and executive visibility in partnership with specialists; anticipate and address clients’ needs.
- Lead account team(s) in working effectively and in the best interest of client(s).
- Troubleshoot client problems as they arise; seek senior management input whenever appropriate.
- Motivate team members by promptly reviewing work and providing constructive feedback; encourage the team to take advantage of training and development opportunities, fostering an environment for growth.
- Represent the agency and work in client‑integrated agency meetings, helping to troubleshoot and identify opportunities for collaboration.
- Demonstrate proficiency in writing and editing materials including programs, proposals, press materials, byline articles, speeches, correspondence, reports, etc.
- Strive to develop the best communication and presentation skills possible to articulate ideas to clients, colleagues, and others effectively.
- Manage account financials including budget allocation and control, client billing, supplier invoicing, and purchase orders; ensure team billability and account profitability.
- Work with account team(s) to build incremental business.
- Communicate account status to agency management regularly.
- Participate in new business programming and presentations.
Qualifications
- Any combination of education and experience providing the required skills and knowledge for successful performance would qualify.
- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Public Relations, Journalism, English, Marketing, or a related field preferred.
- Minimum of 8 years of large agency and/or public relations experience, ideally within the Retail space.
- Demonstrated record in building strong client relationships and delivering programs that exceeded anticipated results.
- Proven track record in growing business.
- Demonstrated experience as a team leader.
- Direct experience in building and managing teams and interfacing with integrated agency teams.
- Ability to manage teams and budgets on sizable accounts with responsibility for excellent quality work, seamless client service, incremental growth, and employee development.
- Ability to multitask efficiently with excellent communication, writing, editing, social/media relations skills; able to spot trends and apply various measurement tools.
Pay
$120,000 - 140,000
Schedule
Omnicom’s policy requires employees to work in the office for a minimum of three days a week, unless additional in‑office days are directed by their agency or manager. Our objective is to increase this requirement over time, and many of our agencies as well as Omnicom’s corporate group already require five days of in‑office attendance.