Full-Time
Associate Vice President
Posted on 8/3/2026
Finn Partners
501-1,000 employees
Global integrated marketing communications agency
No salary listed
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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- Between 10-12 years of relevant experience.
- Understanding of public relations and marketing operations processes, with an emphasis on public relations.
- Confidence in providing day-to-day counsel on clients’ integrated communications programme.
- Capability in account planning and providing strategic inputs to plans while working with senior team or Business Unit leads.
- Ability to work and project manage across media, digital, and content teams to deliver client programs smoothly.
- Understanding of and ability to manage administrative responsibilities.
- Excellent writing, editing, and media pitching skills.
- Key relationships with media and other stakeholders.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Robust time and project management skills.
- Ability to build and nurture client relationships.
- Ability to analyze, manage, and resolve issues.
- Meticulous and detail-oriented working style.
- Strong teamwork and ability to connect with and guide junior staff in day-to-day delivery.
- Strong leadership and ability to rally account and work teams.
- Self-motivation and creative thinking.
- Manage all aspects of public relations and integrated accounts and projects, including planning, execution, reporting, overall budgeting, and billing, while acting as the day-to-day point of contact for key clients.
- Design, plan, and manage public relations and integrated communications programs while working with remote teams.
- Develop a deep understanding of clients’ businesses to create relevant communications strategies and plans.
- Lead, inspire, and drive account teams by providing direction and next steps, ensuring quality standards, and meeting deadlines.
- Maintain account efficiency by ensuring work distribution and team members’ growth and development.
- Ensure appropriate resourcing and support for accounts and discuss required adjustments with the Senior Manager or Business Unit Lead.
- Provide guidance to junior team members on timeline management and other processes.
- Manage media engagement, including securing media interviews and setting up media roundtables, press conferences, and other media engagements.
- Oversee and contribute to public relations and integrated communications materials, including articles, press releases, briefing documents, electronic direct mail, podcasts, and video scripts, by providing guidance, edits, and final approval.
- Maintain accurate and timely records for financial reporting.
- Build strong client relationships and actively grow client accounts organically.
- Contribute to new business lead development and pitching.
- Lead a team to conceptualize, develop, and present new business proposals.
- Provide coaching, guidance, and motivation to junior staff.
- Share knowledge with clients and colleagues and broaden professional skills through ongoing development.
- Significant agency experience in Health or Tech Practice.
Finn Partners is a global integrated marketing and communications agency with 18 offices across three continents and more than 700 colleagues. It delivers a range of services that help brands communicate with audiences through coordinated PR, marketing, digital, and strategic communications programs. The core product is integrated campaigns that combine media relations, content, events, digital tactics, and stakeholder engagement into a single, cohesive effort managed across regions and disciplines. Finn Partners differentiates itself through its collaborative, “new agency” model that blends a 60-year legacy in the industry with speed and energy from today’s hi-tech world, a culture focused on “amazing” work and workplace communities, and a track record of rapid growth, recognition, and awards. The company’s goal is to create meaningful, impactful communications work for clients while building a positive, inclusive workplace and contributing to the communities it serves.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
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Total Funding
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Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
2011
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Honner added Australia and lifted APAC to roughly $19 million fees in July 2026.
- Marty McDonald opens Columbus in September 2026, strengthening Midwest and travel coverage.
- Cathay Pacific, Visit Orlando, and TGJones wins show strong 2026 client momentum.
What critics are saying
- Honner and Columbus integrations can distract leaders and dilute execution through 2027.
- AI search summaries and in-house teams can disintermediate retainer work in 2026.
- Winning specialist mandates across travel, health, and finance demands constant senior hiring.
What makes Finn Partners unique
- Independent agency scale spans 37 offices and 1,300 professionals across major regions.
- FINN combines travel, health, financial services, consumer, and public-affairs specialists.
- AIristotle gives FINN proprietary narrative tooling beyond traditional agency labor.
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Company News
FINN Partners has opened a new office in Columbus, Ohio, appointing Marty McDonald as managing partner and Midwest deputy. The move expands the independent marketing and communications agency's US presence into one of the Midwest's fastest-growing business hubs. McDonald will lead the Columbus office whilst supporting regional growth, working alongside Dan Pooley, founding managing partner and Midwest lead. She will also join FINN's global travel leadership team. Previously, McDonald spent over two decades at Fahlgren Mortine, most recently as the agency's first female president. In her new role, she will focus on B2B and B2C organisations, particularly in domestic tourism, economic development, healthcare, and logistics sectors. The downtown Columbus office is set to open in September 2026. FINN Partners now operates 38 offices globally with more than 1,300 professionals.
FINN Partners has appointed Udit Joshi as Partner to lead its expanded Hyderabad office. The move strengthens the agency's presence in the Indian city, which is becoming increasingly important for Global Capability Centres in pharmaceuticals, life sciences, medtech, and technology. Joshi will oversee an integrated offering spanning corporate communications, executive positioning, employer branding, public affairs, and digital engagement. The office will support organisations navigating communications between India's scientific talent and international markets, particularly the US. Managing Partner Aman Gupta noted that Hyderabad combines an established pharmaceutical ecosystem with substantial technology and engineering capabilities. The city's GCCs are evolving beyond operational support to lead global research, development, and innovation. The expanded operation connects clients with FINN Partners' expertise across India, the US, and its network of over 37 offices globally.
FINN Partners has acquired Honner, a Sydney-based financial and corporate communications agency with 25 employees. The deal establishes FINN's presence in Australia and expands its Asia Pacific footprint to approximately 250 professionals across 37 global offices. Honner will operate as "Honner, A FINN Partners Company". Founder Philippa Honner joins FINN as managing partner and APAC financial services practice leader. The acquisition targets Australia's growing investment sector, particularly its AU$4.5 trillion superannuation market — one of the world's largest retirement savings pools, projected to reach AU$8.3 trillion in the early 2030s. FINN APAC now generates approximately $19 million in fees, representing nearly 10% of the firm's global revenue. The deal follows FINN's recent acquisition of RICE Communications and builds on its established Australian client base including the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Destination New South Wales.
FINN Partners and WifOR Institute have launched "From Cost to Catalyst", a global initiative designed to help governments and industry quantify health spending as an economic investment rather than a budgetary burden. The partnership was unveiled at the World Health Assembly in Geneva. The initiative combines WifOR Institute's health economics expertise with FINN Partners' communications capabilities to provide economic impact modelling, policy platforms and stakeholder engagement strategies. Services include quantifying health's contribution to workforce participation and translating evidence into policy influence. The partnership addresses a growing policy gap across Europe and beyond, where evidence supporting health investment exists but remains disconnected from budget decision-makers. The timing coincides with increased momentum in countries like France to integrate health into fiscal planning and ongoing EU health technology assessment reforms.
NEW YORK, Sept. 25, 2025 /PRNewswire/ - FINN Partners today announced the launch of AIristotle(TM), a proprietary new AI platform that addresses an important missing link in most communications strategies: understanding and aligning with the algorithms that serve as information gatekeepers.