Campaigning, Consultant

Teneo is looking for a talented and driven Consultant with a passion for business, campaigning, and corporate communications to join our team. Teneo is an integrated communications consultancy, providing all aspects of strategic counsel to business leaders and CEOs. This role is primarily to support Teneo’s corporate communication and campaigning accounts, joining a thriving team advising high-profile clients on how to create effective narratives, build positive stakeholder relationships and tell proactive stories which support a businesses’ strategic objectives.

We’re interested in meeting candidates with wide-ranging perspectives, and we’re open to hearing from you whether you currently work agency side, or in-house.

It’s key for us that you can cut across sectors, have excellent media relations and digital skills and switch seamlessly between all our disciplines, from reactive issues management to proactive storytelling across multiple channels. And we’d love it if you’re intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and eager to learn.

As a Consultant you’ll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients and play a pivotal role in driving forward activity across multiple account teams, delivering regular insight and analysis, securing coverage and creating content and supporting clients’ reputational and strategic objectives. Consultants manage and coach our Associate Consultants and work into and learn from our Managing Directors, Associate Directors and Senior Consultants.Working at Teneo

Teneo works with some of the world’s biggest brands across a wide range of sectors and issues, including energy, tech, FMCG and financial services. Our clients include a significant number of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100, as well as other global public and private corporations. We’re an ambitious, global consultancy which allows candidates unmatched opportunities to develop and work with inspiring, motivated people. Although this role is to primarily support our corporate communications and campaigning clients we actively encourage our people to grow and develop their advisory skills across all our disciplines, including financial and M&A, change and employee engagement, leadership coaching, sustainability, strategy and research, issues and crisis management, and restructuring and management consultancy, to solve complex business issues for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

 As a Consultant at Teneo, you will:

• Build strong client relationships
• Provide advice and counsel to a high standard, delivering reputational and industry insight
• Provide support and insight to your client teams, proactively highlighting opportunities, and potential areas of concern for clients
• Maintain and develop strong journalist relationships, pitching and securing coverage
• Develop content for owned, earned and paid channels
• Provide media monitoring for clients and their competitors, using a variety of inputs and tools, to provide wider context and advise on implications
• Build a strong network of effective relationships internally and externally
• Seek opportunities for organic growth and support on writing new business proposals
• Provide constructive day to day feedback and coaching to more junior members of the team

Skills and Experience

• 3-6 years’ experience in a communications role, within agency or in-house
• Accomplished media relations skills
• Passionate about story-telling and how best to reach multiple audiences
• Digital and social storytelling capabilities
• Experience offering client counsel at the appropriate level, based on in-depth insight of client’s business and sector
• Deep knowledge of wider corporate reputational or market issues arising
• Strong ability to grasp clients’ business objectives and relevant wider industry dynamics to enable drafting of messaging and communications materials
• Exceptional written and verbal communications skills
• A positive, flexible and ambitious team player who seeks opportunities to broaden their skills and knowledge.

What we can offer

New joiners are supported by an induction programme, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support. 

Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact to high profile projects.

Company Benefits

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

• Competitive salary (depending on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.