Director, Investor Relations

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New York, NY
190K-240K Annually
7+ Years Experience
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The Role
Seeking a Director to join the Investor Relations and Financial Situations team in New York. Responsibilities include providing insight on strategic investor relations, managing teams, networking with clients and analysts, and fostering professional relationships. Requires 10+ years of relevant experience in IR, research, or financial advisory roles with strong knowledge of capital markets.
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Opportunity

Brunswick Group is seeking a Director to join our Investor Relations and Financial Situations team in New York.

Brunswick was founded in 1987 as a financial communications firm and this work remains deeply engrained in our DNA. Our global Financial practice has unparalleled experience developing and implementing campaigns to advise clients on both long-term positioning to enhance valuation and navigating complex capital markets transactions.

Members of our Financial practice are deeply experienced and focus their client work on strategic investor relations (IR) advisory, mergers & acquisitions, shareholder activism, IPOs, and financial communications. These specialists partner with colleagues in our global sector teams and other practice areas to bring a powerful and complementary combination of perspectives to help clients manage their reputations during critical financial events and with financial stakeholders.

For nearly four decades, Brunswick has consistently ranked at the top of our industry’s league tables on a country, regional, and global basis. Over the last five years alone, the firm has advised on more than:

  • 1,000 M&A transactions totaling $2 trillion in value;
  • 100 high-profile and complex IPOs; and
  • 100 publicly disclosed activist defense mandates with an aggregate market capitalization of almost $2 trillion and dozens more that remain private.

We are seeking to a Director, Investor Relations in New York to help build our strategic IR business and provide advice to Brunswick’s leading corporate clients.

Responsibilities may include but are not limited to:Client Contribution

  • Providing insight, guidance and advice on strategic investor relations and financial situations to clients across industries
  • Advising clients to effectively communicate to investors at critical moments, as well as earnings, conferences, investor days, and financial transactions
  • Developing and executing plans to advocate the client’s point of view to the investors, media, employees, regulators and other critical stakeholders
  • Playing an integral and entrepreneurial role in building Brunswick’s strategic investor relations business including thought leadership and new business development

Team Management

  • Serving as client’s day-to-day contact alongside Partners
  • Actively and effectively managing teams and driving day-to-day activities for multiple accounts at a time
  • Managing and mentoring team members
  • Managing the development of key client deliverables by playing a vital role in overseeing, planning, editing and drafting
  • Overseeing research assignments on fast-moving situations with tight deadlines; distilling a large amount of information into the most impactful and helpful points

Networking

  • Actively cultivating relationships with clients and potential clients
  • Developing relationships with the analyst and investor community
  • Fostering a network of journalist contacts and relationships
  • Maintaining relationships with financial and legal advisors

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • 10+ years of relevant work experience in an IR, research, or financial advisory role with strong knowledge of the capital markets and a range of financial situations involving U.S. public companies
  • In-house investor relations, sell-side research, buy-side or investment banking experience is highly valued
  • Energetic team player with strong self-motivation
  • Ability to operate with discretion and maintain confidentiality at all times
  • Deep understanding of business, finance and markets
  • Capability to understand multiple stakeholder positions (investors, analysts, and media) – and incorporate that understanding into strategy and messaging for the client
  • Deep understanding of financial statements, ability to recognize market expectations, and translate the investor perspective into effective communications
  • Ability to rapidly learn new sectors and companies, and operate with imperfect information
  • Ability to operate effectively in an entrepreneurial, fast-paced environment
  • Ability to multitask, prioritize and think strategically and creatively
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication ability, including on complex issues
  • Experience managing teams and passionate about mentoring junior staff

About Brunswick

Brunswick is a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues and critical stakeholders. Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world successfully.

We advise on critical issues and critical stakeholders at the center of business, politics and society, and help our clients – the leaders of large, complex organizations – understand and navigate these interconnected worlds.

Founded in 1987 in London, the firm has organically grown to 27 offices in 19 countries across the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australia. Brunswick operates as a single global profit center in order to collaboratively and seamlessly deliver results for clients wherever they operate in the world.

The Americas and New York

Brunswick has six offices in 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 São Paulo.

Colleagues in the Americas 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.

Brunswick’s New York Office is the largest of the firm’s offices in the Americas. The office is home to more than 250 colleagues working across the full range of Brunswick’s sector and practice groups, as well as our Insight, Digital and Creative Campaigns & Content teams.

Located in the heart of one of the world’s leading capital markets centers, Brunswick’s New York office serves as a global center of excellence for our Financial Institutions sector team – which advises leading banks, asset managers and insurers on a wide array of critical issues from corporate positioning to litigation and crisis – and our Financial practice – which advises clients across industries on M&A transactions, shareholder activism, investor relations and financial communications, IPOs, restructurings and ESG.

Our newly renovated and expanded space encompasses the 24th and 25th floors in the Grace Building on Bryant Park and serves as a convening space for Brunswick’s global colleagues, clients, media and other members of the business, political and social communities.

For more information on Brunswick, including our offices and client offers, please visit our website: www.brunswickgroup.com

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Statement

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.

Compensation

The applicant who is selected for this position will be eligible for the following compensation and benefits:  

In New York City, the range of base compensation will be: $190,000-$240,000.

If an offer is extended to an applicant in New York City, the applicant will be paid in line with this range and based on the applicant’s experience and qualifications. This range applies only to the New York City position, and salaries in other offices and regions will vary based on an applicant’s experience and qualifications, as well as the competitive landscape. 

Bonus Eligibility: Annual discretionary bonus contingent upon individual performance and the overall performance of the Firm. 

Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance. Disability insurance. Employee assistance program. Flexible spending account. Health savings account. Life insurance. Paid Time Off: Vacation and sick leave, as well as paid Bank Holidays. Firm-sponsored 401K Plan with 3% safe harbor contribution of base and bonus – immediate vesting.

Other: Career training and development opportunities and employee discounts. 

The Company
HQ: New York, NY
1,550 Employees
On-site Workplace

What We Do

Brunswick is an advisory firm specialising in business critical issues. We help companies build trusted relationships with all their stakeholders.

When clients turn to us, it’s because they know that engaging effectively with everyone who has a stake in the company is about more than managing perceptions - it is essential to making business work.

Our background in financial communications means we understand how businesses are wired. It also means integrity is deep in our nature: diligence, openness and accuracy.

Brunswick is one firm globally. Delivering anywhere, we have a reputation for high-calibre, highly experienced people who have diverse backgrounds and skills.

It means whatever the task, no matter how complex or where it is in the world, we can assemble the right expertise from right across the firm.

Our purpose is to help the great value creating organisations of the world play a more successful role in society.

You can also follow us on Twitter @BrunswickGroup

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