Associate Director, Political Regulatory Specialism

2 weeks ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Teneo Full time

Teneo is looking for a talented and driven Associate Director with a passion for business and politics to join our team. Teneo is an integrated communications consultancy, providing all aspects of strategic counsel to business leaders and CEOs. This role is primarily to support Teneo's political clients, joining a thriving team advising high-profile businesses navigating challenging and highly regulated environments, helping to shape company narratives and influence the political and policy landscape.

We're interested in meeting candidates with wide-ranging perspectives, and we're open to hearing from you whether you currently work agency side, or in-house.

It's key for us that you can cut across sectors and switch seamlessly between all our disciplines, from reactive issues management to proactive storytelling. And we'd love it if, like us, you're intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and eager to learn.

As an Associate Director you'll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients, playing a pivotal role in leading multiple, high-profile account teams, giving strategic counsel to senior clients, regularly providing political insight and analysis across our business, and proactively contributing to and fostering the development of junior team members. Associate Directors manage and coach Senior Consultants and Consultants, and work into and learn from Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors.

Working at Teneo

Teneo works with some of the world's biggest brands across a wide range of sectors and issues, including energy, tech, FMCG and financial services. Our clients include a significant number of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100, as well as other global public and private corporations. We're an ambitious, global consultancy which allows candidates unmatched opportunities to develop and work with inspiring, motivated people. Although this role is to primarily support our political and regulatory clients, we actively encourage our people to grow and develop their advisory skills across all our disciplines, including financial and M&A, digital, creative campaigning and corporate communications, change and employee engagement, leadership coaching, sustainability, strategy and research, issues and crisis management, and restructuring and management consultancy, to solve complex business issues for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

As an Associate Director at Teneo, you will be:

Leading large and often integrated teams to develop and deliver political campaigns and strategies that have real impact for our clients Responsible for client servicing, profitability, forecasting and budgeting Generating new business leads through networks and proactive opportunity spotting Providing political insight and intelligence through political, media and industry networking Proactively contributing to and fostering the development of junior team members, including line managing 1-3 colleagues Challenging the status quo with new thinking, new product development, and new ways of working

Skills and Experience

At least 7 years' experience of working in a senior role in public affairs consultancy on in-house Demonstrable experience in managing large teams Excellent understanding of local and national government Excellent ability to shape and deliver strategic advice to senior level clients Able to manage and mentor junior staff An engaging self-starter with high attention to detail Exceptionally strong verbal and written communication skills A collaborator who is able to foster good working relationships Time management and the ability to prioritise a varied workload Comfortable taking the lead on driving performance and revenue

What we can offer

New joiners are supported by an induction programmes, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. 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 one 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 advises business leaders, enabling them to achieve goals faster and at lower cost by earning trust, navigating disruption, and removing barriers. We are built to help businesses succeed in a world no longer defined by boundaries and disciplines. Working exclusively with the CEOs and senior executives of the world's leading companies, Teneo provides strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues.

Across the globe, Teneo employs more than 1,200 people, offering global reach from a light infrastructure, built out of regional hubs. Our culture is critical to our success. We have a flat management structure with an open and supportive office atmosphere. To support progression and learning, we foster a supportive environment with a focus on mental health and wellbeing as well as adopting an inclusive environment that allows all employees to flourish. We recognise that diversity is essential for our business and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

At Teneo, we have fully embraced hybrid working and redefined the way we work such that it facilitates collaboration, optimises productivity and promotes the health and wellbeing of our people. We are adopting a 60:40 principle of office:remote working across our UK business which offers the flexibility to ensure that our people are empowered to find the right rhythm for themselves, our teams and our clients. We are also happy to discuss other forms of flexible working so please let us know if this is something you would like to discuss.



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