Director, Corporate Leadership & Transformation Communications
Director, Corporate Leadership & Transformation Communications
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The Opportunity: Director Corporate Leadership & Transformation
Brunswick Group a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues is seeking a Director in Chicago who will confidently advise C-suite level clients on strategic communications for a wide range of high-stakes issues. In addition to client-facing responsibilities the Director will guide and mentor junior staff and contribute to the growth and success of the Chicago office and the firm.
Brunswick is a widely recognized industry leader. For nearly four decades Brunswick has consistently ranked at the top of our industrys league tables for M&A communications on a country regional and global basis. Over the last five years the firm has advised on more than 1000 M&A transactions totaling $2 trillion in value. In 2024 Brunswick ranked the #1 global M&A communications advisor advising on 295 transactions valued at $583B. We were also awarded the Band 1 ranking by Chambers and Partners for Crisis & Risk Management for four consecutive yearsand 2024.
Our Chicago office is one of the fastest growing offices in our network. Founded in 2017 the office has grown from four to 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 c-suite clients drawing on specialist communications expertise and depth of professional advisory experience
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of the clients business and strategic communications issues spanning financial situations crisis litigation and/or transformation
- Monitor level of account profitability and intervene as necessary
Communication Skills
- Express a point of view in a thoughtful manner; analyze and distill complex information
- Write thoughtful well-structured content; consider audience in style and tone of communications
- Exhibit and exercise sound judgement and discretion
- Question and challenge in a constructive way; present unpopular ideas to senior executives with poise and confidence
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 c-suite stakeholders across a variety of sectors on high-stakes crisis and issues communications financial situations communications and/or leadership and transformation communications
- Experience managing teams of five or more people
- Proven ability to successfully interact with top-tier 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
- 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
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.
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.
Brunswick is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age disability pregnancy genetic information or any other status protected by applicable law.
Required Experience:
Director
Employment Type
Full Time
