Associate Director, Campaigning and Strategy

The Role

We are looking for an experienced communications professional to join our Campaigning team as an Associate Director.

Associate Directors make a significant contribution to our reputation, profitable growth and client retention. They lead client accounts, develop and execute winning reputation strategies grounded in audience insight, support teams to deliver to highest standards, inspire new thinking, and take an active role in contributing to our culture. They manage and coach our Senior Consultants, Consultants and Associate Consultants and work into and learn from our Managing Directors, with the structure of each team varying based on clients’ needs.

We are looking for exceptional candidates with a track record in developing insight-led corporate narratives and delivering high-impact communications and campaigns. They will be strategic thinkers, strong writers and capable client advisors with varied experience and wide-ranging perspectives. They’ll be able to cut across sectors and switch seamlessly between disciplines, from reactive issues management to proactive storytelling. Like us, they’ll be intellectually curious, creative, collaborative and eager to learn.

Campaigning at Teneo

We define campaigning as creating high impact moments over time, and at scale, that cause audiences to pause and think about an organization. It’s communicating in an organized and active way, towards a goal.

Our approach is to consider all audiences. In a climate that no longer respects boundaries or disciplines, we are not limited by sector divisions or traditional silos like ‘consumer’, ‘corporate’ or ‘digital’. We organise our skills and expertise under one campaigning approach – drawing on disciplines including social, digital, traditional media relations, content creation, employee engagement, issues management – to reach the audiences that matter. We bring together sophisticated researchers, brilliant creatives, well-connected media operators, expert brand and social strategists, financial market specialists, geopolitical intelligence, organisational change specialists, as well as seasoned political and social campaigners.

Key Responsibilities

• Providing day-to-day client team direction and management
• Helping clients to identify and define their strategic positioning and narrative
• Developing and executing high impact communication strategies and campaigns that are rooted in audience insight and help clients meet their business objectives
• Building strong working relationships with senior clients and their teams
• Motivating and managing high-performing teams to deliver impactful work for clients
• Project management including resourcing, budget management and profitability
• Growing existing client briefs and contributing to winning new business
• Proactively contributing to and fostering a knowledge-sharing environment with clients and colleagues, seeking new insights, knowledge, and expertise
• Talent management of junior colleagues

Key Skills & Experience

• At least 7 years’ experience working in communications, in house or in agency
• Demonstrable experience in developing impactful communications & campaigns
• Ability to build strong relationships with clients and deliver strategic advice
• Excellent writing, ideally with experience in drafting corporate narratives
• Understanding of and ability to work with the media and stakeholders
• Ability to lead and motivate teams to deliver high-quality work
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to foster good working relationships
• Strong project management including budget and resource management
• Ability to work well under pressure and at pace

What we can offer 

New joiners are supported by an induction programs and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo. 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 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.