Opportunity

Brunswick Group is seeking a Director to join our Mumbai office advising clients across India and the wider region on high-stakes financial situations and moments of transformation.

Our work spans crisis and issue management litigation reputation management and contested financial situations often in complex fast-moving environments. The successful candidate will bring a nuanced understanding of India-specific business regulatory investor and media dynamics and ideally a blended background spanning advisory in-house corporate experience and media engagement.

Directors alongside Partners are senior leaders within the firm and drive client relationships originating new business opportunities and shaping sector and market leadership.

About the Role

Client Advisory & Leadership

• Provide senior strategic counsel to clients navigating financial situations corporate transactions and crises.
• Advise Boards CEOs CFOs and founders on stakeholder strategy including investors regulators government media and employees
• Demonstrates a strong advisoroperator mindset combining strategic counsel with hands-on execution to deliver high-quality outcomes for clients.
• Demonstrates excellent leadership and team coordination skills translating ideas into clear action plans and driving successful high-quality delivery.
• Demonstrates strong client relationship and stakeholder management skills building trust with senior leaders and navigating complex environments competing priorities and diverse interests with diplomacy and sound judgment.
• Apply strong understanding of Indias capital markets regulatory frameworks (e.g. SEBI RBI) and promoter-led business dynamics
• Lead and manage complex multi-stakeholder mandates often under intense scrutiny and compressed timelines
• Ensure high-quality delivery and oversight of client work including financial communications positioning and narrative development

Financial Situations Expertise

• Advise on M&A (public and private) IPOs take-private transactions restructurings and special situations
• Support clients in hostile or contested scenarios including defense strategy and stakeholder engagement
• Translate financial complexity into clear compelling messaging for varied audiences
• Provide insight into investor sentiment market dynamics and reputational risk in deal situations

Business Development

• Partner with senior leadership to originate and convert new business opportunities
• Lead pitch processes bringing differentiated insights into India market trends and sector dynamics
• Identify opportunities to expand relationships across Brunswicks services (e.g. crisis public affairs ESG digital)
• Build a strong external network across corporate leaders bankers lawyers investors regulators and media

Media & Stakeholder Engagement

• Demonstrate strong relationships with top-tier Indian business and financial media
• Advise clients in both proactive positioning and high-pressure reactive situations
• Navigate Indias rapidly evolving digital and news ecosystem including real-time reputation management
• Bring experience engaging with or operating within media environments to shape narratives effectively

Team Leadership

• Ensure the smooth running of client teams maintaining clear sight of the operational effectiveness of accounts providing direction and project management; working closely with Partners on all aspects of managing performance from account finances to team roles to client deliverables.
• Lead teams with a clear focus on account performance and client outcomes ensuring seamless execution strong financial management and high client satisfaction.
• Develop colleagues below director level actively support their talent and growth and equip them to progress. Engage and collaborate with colleagues across the firm at all levels to bring different areas of expertise to our client work and to contribute to mandates led by other practices/ sectors/geographies

What Were Looking For

• 1015 years experience in relevant experience in communications consulting or a related advisory role. across a mix of:

• Financial Consulting or Communications advisory
• In-house corporate (e.g. investor relations strategy communications)
• Exposure to or experience working with media
• Demonstrated experience advising on financial situations
• Strong understanding of Indias business landscape including promoter-led companies regulatory complexity and capital markets
• Proven ability to engage and advise C-suite and Board-level stakeholders
• Demonstrates exceptional writing skills bringing clarity structure and insight to complex issues and producing high-quality impactful advisory materials for senior audiences..
• Established relationships with Indian business financial and/or policy media
• Experience managing teams and delivering complex projects under pressure

Core Capabilities

• Strategic thinking: Ability to connect business financial regulatory and reputational considerations
• Communication excellence: Exceptional writing narrative development and message structuring
• Judgement: High discretion with sensitive situations and ability to operate in ambiguity
• Commercial acumen: Strong understanding of financial metrics deal structures and investor priorities
• Stakeholder insight: Deep appreciation of investor regulator government and media perspectives in India
• Leadership: Motivates challenges and develops teams while maintaining delivery excellence
• Entrepreneurial mindset: Proactive collaborative and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment

Personal Attributes

• High integrity and discretion in handling confidential matters
• Strong presence and credibility with senior stakeholders
• Emotionally intelligent with ability to read the room in complex situations
• Resilient and calm under pressure
• Curious and well-informed on business policy and market developments
• A team player who invests in the success of colleagues and the firm

About Brunswick

Brunswick is a global advisory firm. We help companies tackle high-stakes issues navigate complex stakeholder relationships and deliver high-impact outcomes.

Our clients value our ability to anticipate shape and respond to the key players and forces in the financial and investment arena regulatory and geopolitical universe NGO community workforce and beyond. They rely on us for deep experience fresh perspectives and original thinking. So in Brunswick you will find an exceptional range of experience and talent with a rich mix of backgrounds. From the beginning we have prioritized attracting developing and retaining the best professionals in the industry united by a culture of inclusivity excellence and intellectual curiosity.

Founded in 1987 in London the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 18 countries across the Americas Europe Middle East Africa Asia and Australia. We operate as a one-firm firm with no individual profit centers. This allows us to assemble fully integrated bespoke teams for each client able to draw on the full resources of Brunswick anywhere in the world.

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