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Digital & Social Media Strategist
Location: Brussels, Belgium

Weber Shandwick Brussels is recruiting for a digital leader capable of driving earned and owned digital offers across our client base, focusing primarily within the Consumer Marketing business, but also acting as a digital consultant to the wider business.

This is a great role for an experienced senior digital expert who wants the opportunity to shine in a leading integrated communications agency.

Key responsibilities

  • To create game-changing, digitally executed ideas and sell them to our existing or new clients
  • To drive year-on-year growth and secure greater digital spend from our existing clients
  • To work primarily with our Practice Heads to accelerate the growth of digital communications within the Consumer and wider businesses
  • To help develop thought leadership platforms and new business opportunities to maintain our already-strong reputation and create growth opportunities
  • To help impart best-in-class digital knowledge to the teams in Consumer and the rest of the agency, sharing best practice and helping to educate and train the teams
  • To lead our digital task force across all our practice groups (Consumer, Corporate, Public Affairs and Healthcare) and inspire our junior digital natives embedded in each of these practices

Candidate Requirements

  • You are a digital native, active yourself in the social media space, capable of advising and selling services and products to our clients
  • You thrive on uncovering insights, leading digital strategy and evangelising digital to our clients
  • You have a bachelor's degree, preferably in (digital) marketing
  • 3 to 5 years of experience in a (digital) marketing environment, preferably within an online agency or advertiser or within a (digital) consultancy environment.
  • You have affinity with the technical aspects of online marketing and are be familiar with online communication techniques, such as: SEO, SEM, mobile and apps
  • You passionately and closely follow the latest developments within the context of digital and social media and communicate about them to your colleagues
  • You have a highly developed understanding of the role digital communications plays within the wider marketing mix
  • You should be able to work as an integrated part of the Brussels team, managing issues as they arise and fostering enthusiasm across the agency
  • English speaker, French and/or Dutch is a plus

Detailed required expertise: digital/social media activities

  • Community management (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, etc…)
  • Running a Facebook campaign and any other online initiatives on the platform (e.g. Facebook apps and games)
  • Running a Twitter contest
  • Blogger outreach
  • Running a bloggers event
  • Online audit/monitoring
  • Online crisis management
  • Social media news release creation
  • Digital content/asset creation (e.g. Writing tweets, images/video production to live online)
  • Web development (Non Creation aspect or just portion of WS revenue)
  • Project management for web builds, site testing, etc
  • Website content management
  • Influencer engagement/relations
  • Digital strategy/ counsel
  • Online research (including surveys)
  • Online toolkit creation

About Weber Shandwick
Weber Shandwick is the world's largest PR agency. Digital communications is at the heart of what we do and is treated as an integrated and integral part of the agency's offer to clients. The Brussels offices are multi award-winning, full-service public relations and public affairs consultancy. The nature of this pivotal city in the heart of Europe enables us to support organisations in both their pan-European communications and EU institutional outreach and to also assist companies operating in and targeting the Benelux market.

We provide the widest scope of planning, campaign coordination and multi-country implementation in EU markets, bringing in support where required from across Weber Shandwick's global network includes 81 offices in 40 countries and affiliates that expand the network to 121 offices in 76 countries.

For more information please visit www.webershandwick.be

Interested? Please send your cover letter and CV to: HRBrussels@webershandwick.com
Replies will be dealt with in strictest confidence. We look forward to hearing from you.

Account Executive / Senior Account Executive, Consumer Practice, Weber Shandwick Brussels
Location: Brussels, Belgium

Weber Shandwick Brussels is looking to recruit an ambitious Account Executive / Senior Account Executive ready to move into a new and challenging role in its award-winning consumer practice group. The ideal candidate will play a very active part in executing existing business with added responsibilities to help the team secure new business. Fluency within, and a passion for, the digital sphere and social networking is a must. The winning candidate will be rewarded by working alongside a fun, dynamic and exciting team, overseeing campaigns for some of the world's biggest brands and companies.

Key responsibilities

  • Ensuring that all clients receive a superior level of customer service from the agency. You will also show the ability to add value to client relationships through your understanding of digital marketing activities and experience
  • You will be responsible for all aspects of project execution: helping your managers take briefs; accurately managing and spending client budgets; regular, diligent and accurate reporting to your client and the agency team
  • You should be passionately proven in selling client products, campaign collateral and ideas to journalists (traditional print, online and broadcast) and bloggers (you should have a portfolio of coverage available to bring to interview)
  • In addition to responsibilities in your home office in Brussels, from time to time you will also remotely work alongside other key departments within the Weber Shandwick global network

Candidate Requirements

  • You will have a bachelor's degree
  • You will have a minimum of one to two years working experience in consumer marketing and PR, with an understanding of digital, corporate and B2B communications
  • You will have a basic understanding of online marketing and will be familiar with online communication techniques such as SEO and SEM and social media
  • You passionately and closely follow the latest developments within the context of traditional, digital and social media closely and communicate them to your colleagues
  • You should be able to work as an integrated part of the team, managing issues as they arise and encouraging enthusiasm through the practice group
  • You should have excellent time and workload management skills
  • Flemish should be your native language, with fluent verbal and written understanding of French and English

(A demonstrable passion for design, food and drink and poker is an advantage!)

The remuneration for this role depends on the experience of the candidate and is negotiable. The key qualities that the candidate needs to possess are:

  • Commercially driven and literate, understanding of KPIs
  • Confident in front of clients
  • Able to build confidence and support with teams rapidly
  • An excellent communicator
  • Possess gravitas and commands respect
  • Imaginative, dynamic and inquisitive
  • Thirst for learning and achievement
  • A self-starter

About Weber Shandwick Weber Shandwick in Brussels is a multi award-winning, full-service public relations and public affairs consultancy and a key office in the global Weber Shandwick network.

The nature of this pivotal city in the heart of Europe enables us to support organisations in both their pan-European communications and EU institutional outreach and to also assist companies operating in and targeting the Benelux market.

We provide the widest scope of planning, campaign coordination and multi-country implementation in EU markets, bringing in support where required from across Weber Shandwick's global network includes 81 offices in 40 countries and affiliates that expand the network to 121 offices in 76 countries.

For more information please visit www.webershandwick.be

Interested? Please send your cover letter and CV to: HRBrussels@webershandwick.com

Replies will be dealt with in strictest confidence. We look forward to hearing from you.

Our sister company Octagon Belgium (www.octagon.com) is looking to hire an:
Account Director

Octagon drives brand value for the world's leading companies, developing marketing and sponsorship strategies that truly engage consumers through their passions.

Octagon believes in equality of opportunity and strives to harness the possibilities that diversity brings. We work to engage people from a wide range of backgrounds and believe that this adds to our drive for having the most talented people working in the organization. We respect and value differences and work to turn these strengths into a great business.

The Account Director will be based at MasterCard Europe office and will be responsible for the Management of MasterCard's European sponsorship portfolio including Champions League

Job description

Program Planning and Management

  • Marketing Plan development and implementation
  • Budget management support
  • Central coordinator for quality control across all MCE sponsorships
  • Liaison with other MasterCard departments to ensure maximum integration
  • Project Management reporting
  • Account team and client management
  • Measurement

General consultancy support

  • Evaluation of incoming proposals
  • Support in preparing presentations/communications
  • Internal communications
  • Monitoring of industry news/trends/research

UEFA Champions League / Rugby World Cup / Disney

  • Activation Plan development and management
  • Sell-In Process to market contacts/stakeholders
  • Central coordinator
  • Project captain on certain elements
  • Spokesperson Management
  • Event execution leader

Professional Requirements /Skills

  • Excellent experience (8+ years) in B2C marketing sector
  • Minimum 4 years sponsorship experience
  • Big event football sponsorship experience (UEFA Champions League, UEFA European Championship, FIFA WC, etc)
  • Experience in client management on international level
  • Proven ability to manage a team
  • Strategic thinker and a doer
  • Attention to detail
  • Real passion for sport, entertainment and football in particular
  • English mandatory; French preferred, other European languages a bonus
  • Good communication and social skills
  • Presentation skills (as a person and to prepare documents)

What we offer

  • A dynamic, intellectually stimulating and international environment
  • Training and career development
  • Competitive salary in accordance with experience and skills
  • numerous non-statutory benefits

Interested? Please send your cover letter and CV to: HRBrussels@webershandwick.com
Replies will be dealt with in strictest confidence. We look forward to hearing from you.

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