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Director

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The Role: Director

Brunswick Group, a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues, is seeking a Director with expertise in Financial, Corporate and Crisis communications to join our Chicago office. Directors, along with Partners serve as firm leaders and play a critical role in driving client work and the overall success of the firm.

Brunswick is a widely recognized industry leader. For nearly four decades, Brunswick has consistently ranked at the top of our industry’s league tables for M&A communications on a country, regional, and global basis. Ove the last five years, the firm has advised on more than 1,000 M&A transactions totaling $2 trillion in value. For the first half of 2024, Brunswick ranked the #1 global M&A communications advisor, advising on 155 transactions valued at $285B. We were also awarded the Band 1 ranking by Chambers and Partners for Crisis & Risk Management for four consecutive years – 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

Our Chicago office serves as the global hub for our consumer industries sector and is one of the fastest growing offices in our network. Founded in 2017, the office has grown from four to nearly 40 professionals and the home office for some of our highest profile client work in the region.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:

Client Contribution & Handling

  • Deliver strategic advice to clients, drawing on specialist communications expertise and depth of professional advisory experience
  • Demonstrate deep knowledge of the clients’ business and strategic communications issues
  • Monitor level of account profitability and intervene as necessary

Communication Skills

  • Write thoughtful, well-structured content; consider audience in style and tone of communications
  • Express a point of view in a thoughtful manner; able to analyze and distill complex information
  • Exhibit and exercise sound judgement and discretion
  • Question and challenge in a constructive way; present unpopular ideas confidently

Business Development

  • Source new business opportunities along with partner, apply knowledge and experience to lead well-run pitch teams and drive the pitch preparation
  • Use deep knowledge of key sectors to promote new business approaches and ideas
  • Assist in pitches across regions and sectors
  • Identify new opportunities to deliver other Brunswick expertise to existing clients; actively pursue and secure extensions of client relationships
  • Build and maintain strong external networks to deliver valuable insight to clients and the Firm

Teams

  • Actively and effectively manage account teams; drive the day-to-day
  • Keep the partner and other team members informed of account and project status
  • Foster development of team members’ skills and client handling ability by identifying new challenges and encouraging team to stretch where appropriate

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • 10-15+ years of experience in advising clients, including c-suite stakeholders, around strategic communications for critical issues (i.e., Litigation, Financial Situations, Crisis)
  • Experience managing teams of five or more people
  • Proven ability to successfully interact with the media in proactive and reactive situations
  • Strong work ethic and attention to detail; client service-orientation
  • Exceptional research, writing and communication skills
  • Ability to multitask and prioritize competing deadlines with attention to detail
  • Exhibit discretion with confidential client matters
  • Strong financial acumen, interest, and understanding of capital markets and a range of business and financial situations involving U.S. public companies
  • Appetite for consuming a wide range of news from multiple sources and rapidly learning new sectors
  • Emotionally intelligent and adept at “reading the room”
  • Professional polish, energy, and clear leadership skills
  • Natural team player who invests in the people around them
  • Entrepreneurial, collaborative and comfortable in a “roll your sleeves up environment”
  • Adept at navigating and succeeding within high-performance, high-standards environments

About Brunswick 

Brunswick is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues. Our purpose is to help the great value-creating organizations of the world play a more successful role in society. 

We advise on critical issues at the center of business, politics and society, and help our clients – the leaders of large, complex organizations – understand and navigate these interconnected worlds. 

Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit center. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients’ needs wherever they are in the world. 

Founded in London in 1987, Brunswick’s global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and, over time, expanded our capabilities and expertise to crisis communications, public and regulatory affairs, major litigation, business and society, cyber, employee engagement, with digital, insight and creative capabilities.

We rank number 1 in the world over the last five years by global deal value and global deal volume and were named Band 1 advisors in the U.S. and the UK earlier this year by Chambers and Partners, the legal rankings service, as one of the very top communications firms offering legal and litigation support work. 

Our Global CEO is Henry Timms, based in New York. Our Chairman is Sir Alan Parker, based in London. 

The Americas 

In the U.S., we have offices in Chicago, Dallas, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. In Brazil, we have an office in Sao Paulo. We advise clients on, among other things, domestic and cross border M&A, IPOs, activism, capital markets and investor relations, public and regulatory affairs, geopolitical issues, litigation, crisis, cyber, employee engagement, digital, opinion research and on broader reputation campaigns.  

Colleagues in the U.S. are drawn from a variety of backgrounds and consist of in-depth industry and sector experts from banking, law, accounting, politics, government, journalism and the media, consulting and elsewhere. Our U.S. CEO is Nik Deogun. 

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