Director, Strategic Communications

Opportunity

As a Director, you will lead on the development and delivery of strategic communications plans and provide senior-level advice to a broad range of clients. You will develop and land regular and proactive ideas for clients, advising on critical issues impacting some of the world’s most influential businesses and playing a leading role as day-to-day point of contact for your clients.

You will also develop strategies to approach and cultivate new business targets using a strong internal network that includes talent from across Brunswick’s entire offering, as well as your own external network.

You will ensure the smooth running of teams by establishing clear roles, managing performance, and ensuring that all key stakeholders and client needs are being covered by the team. You will work closely with Partners on all aspects of client management, including account finances, fee negotiation, and adviser meetings.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise clients on a range of business-critical
• Develop and maintain strong and trusted relationships with senior client contacts to deliver strategic advice.
• Drive large, complex account teams, providing strategic direction and overall
• Actively extend internal and external networks and draw insights and opportunities from
• Regularly manage sensitive and complex media and/or regulatory
• Work with a variety of client and pitch teams, serving as a regional practice group / sector expert for other geographies and specialist offers.
• Use deep knowledge of the region to promote new business approaches and
• Identify new opportunities to deliver additional Brunswick expertise to clients; actively pursue and secure extensions of client relationships.
• Act as a leader on teams, providing strategic direction based on Partner guidance and ensuring teams are working effectively.
• Foster development of team members’ skills; serve as development mentor for junior colleagues.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies

• A strong track record either working in an advisory role within communications agencies, in- house roles or consulting experience advising clients.
• Due to local regulatory requirements, only Saudi nationals with an undergraduate degree in communications or a related field can be considered.
• 10+ years’ relevant professional experience, preferably in a senior position within KSA.
• Ability to communicate fluently and effectively in Arabic and English (writing and speaking).
• Deep understanding of business, with first-hand experience of handling highly topical issues, and an extensive network from which to draw intelligence.
• An understanding of the interplay between corporates, the financial community, and regulatory arena and social stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of corporate positioning, and how to develop strategies that can translate into programs with real sustained impact.
• Experience in media-handling, with extensive knowledge of the regional media landscape, would be highly beneficial.
• Ability to operate effectively in a commercial, self-starting, and fast-paced
• Experience advising senior business leaders with efficacy and
• Ability to connect with and leverage the skills and expertise of colleagues, to deliver the best possible advice, campaigns and programs to clients.
• A strong verbal and written communicator and an engaging presentation
• A global perspective and experience working with international businesses or
• A balance of creative and analytical thinking, bringing rigor, accuracy, and attention to
• A natural team-worker who prefers to work in a collegiate

Our Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days’ annual leave, excluding public holidays (plus your Birthday off)
• Private medical cover
• Family-friendly policies
• Lunch & Learn training sessions
• A comprehensive training and development curriculum

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Maintaining and strengthening a diverse workforce and inclusive workplace are pillars of Brunswick’s culture and key to our future success. Valuing and supporting every colleague as an individual while helping them reach their full potential is critical to attracting and developing our greatest strength – our people. By embracing our differences and diverse perspectives we create richer experiences within our firm and enhance the quality of the ideas and advice that we deliver to our clients.

Brunswick is an equal opportunities employer and our Equal Opportunities Policy is available on request.

About Brunswick Group

Brunswick is a critical issues firm. We advise the world’s leading companies on how to navigate the

critical issues they face and engage with their critical stakeholders.

Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world more successfully. We help the leaders of the world’s great value-creating organizations operate successfully across the increasingly complex and fast-changing arenas of finance, politics and society at large.

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.

Background

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 to provide expert advice to our clients on a range of business-critical issues. We invested in new offices, sector teams and practice groups including investor engagement; shareholder activism; governance; regulatory and public affairs, including geopolitical; crisis; litigation; social issues including climate change and diversity, equity and inclusion; cybersecurity, data and privacy; employee engagement; digital communications; opinion research and analysis, and creative services.

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

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