Senior Associate Strategy & Communications
Hong Kong SAR

The Opportunity
As Teneo continues to grow its presence across the Greater Bay area we are seeking a Senior Associate to join their Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR.
This is an excellent opportunity for a driven commercially minded communications professional to build a longterm career within a global advisory firm working at the intersection of corporate reputation financial communications and complex stakeholder environments.
Based in Hong Kong SAR this role will support clients across Greater China and the wider Asia Pacific region with a strong emphasis on integrated corporate communications financial communications and investorfacing mandates. The successful candidate will bring experience advising senior leaders on marketsensitive issues financial narratives and reputational risk.
A Senior Associate at Teneo is responsible for delivering consistently highquality client work and plays a pivotal role in managing daytoday account activity. You will be expected to anticipate client needs identify emerging risks and opportunities and ensure that work is delivered to agreed standards and timelines. You will also contribute to the development of junior team members through onthejob coaching and active participation in a collaborative highperformance team environment.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate within Teneos Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR your role will include:

• Horizon scanning and strategic advisory: Proactively monitor geopolitical macroeconomic regulatory and market developments relevant to Hong Kong SAR and Greater China providing actionable insight and seniorlevel advisory to clients.
• Monitoring and reporting: Track media financial news public markets commentary social media and stakeholder activity with a particular focus on issues with potential reputational or investor impact. Contribute to the development of advisory notes briefings and researchdriven analysis and build familiarity with the Hong Kong and regional media landscape.
• Corporate communications: Support seniorlevel corporate communications advisory helping clients articulate and protect their corporate narrative manage complex stakeholder environments and respond effectively to reputational risk and emerging issues. This includes development of messaging executive materials content and campaign support across traditional digital and investorfacing channels grounded in rigorous research and insight.
• Financial communications and special situations: Support senior team members in advising clients on financial communications mandates including earnings support M&A restructuring capital markets activity and other special situations. Experience engaging with investor relations teams and marketsensitive disclosure is highly valued.
• Account and client management: Support the effective delivery of client accounts maintaining strong working relationships with key client stakeholders. Monitor progress against objectives flag emerging issues and contribute to clear structured client communications.
• Thought leadership and content development: Contribute to the development of client thought leadership corporate profiling and executive positioning content with an emphasis on clarity credibility and relevance to financial and corporate stakeholders.
• Business development support: Support senior team members with business development activity including research insight generation and preparation of proposals and credentials. Begin building a personal network of professional relationships across the market.

In addition you will be expected to:

• Build strong trusted relationships with clients and colleagues;
• Provide thoughtful input and challenge within client teams proactively highlighting opportunities and potential risks;
• Develop a strong internal and external network across corporate financial and media stakeholders;
• Actively pursue learning and development opportunities and contribute to knowledgesharing across the broader Strategy and Communications team.

Requirements

• 4 - 6 years of relevant experience in corporate communications financial communications investor relations media or transaction advisory.
• Demonstrated experience supporting financial communications investorrelated messaging earnings M&A capital markets or special situations mandates.
• Strong understanding of the Hong Kong SAR corporate and financial landscape with experience engaging Hong Kong and regional media.
• Excellent writing skills with a proven ability to produce clear accurate and highquality content for senior corporate and investor audiences.
• Experience advising or supporting clients through reputational issues or sensitive communications.
• Fluency in English and Cantonese is essential with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
• Bachelors degree in journalism communications public policy business economics or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
• Strong interest in global news financial markets and macroeconomic developments.

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 organisational design board and executive search geopolitics and government affairs corporate governance ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1800 employees located in 42 offices around the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race colour religion creed national origin age sex marital status ancestry disability gender identity genetic information or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.