[4] He has worked for Unilever in the UK, France, the United States, both in global and regional roles across general management and marketing.
In 2014, Weed gave a TED Talk about the global issue of climate change and argued that sustainability and economic growth can go hand-in-hand.
[14] Weed co-created this alliance with the help of UN Women, and united 24 companies in an effort to remove the portrayal of unhelpful stereotypes from their advertising by 2020.
[18][19] In 2018, Weed also received The Drum's Lifetime Achievement Award[20] and featured in the Top 50 Financial Times HERoes list as a Champion of Women in Business.
[24] In 2020, he was named President and Chairman of the Royal Horticultural Society [25] and joined the board of Sainsbury's as a non-executive director.
[26] Weed was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2021 New Year Honours list for services to the advertising and marketing industry.