Director

Opportunity

Brunswick Group is seeking a dynamic and highly experienced Director to join Brunswick Group, based in our Stockholm office. This role will involve leading teams dedicated to devising and executing comprehensive communication strategies for our clients. The ideal candidate possesses a robust understanding of corporate strategy and communications and will demonstrate a proven ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with high-level clients. You should also bring an exceptional ability to navigate complex business challenges and provide strategic solutions, all while mentoring team members and enhancing the Brunswick brand in the Nordic region. 

As a Director, you will lead on the development and delivery of strategic communications plans and provide senior-level advice to a broad range of clients. You will develop and land regular and proactive ideas for clients, advising on critical issues impacting some of the world’s most influential businesses and playing a leading role as day-to-day point of contact for your clients.

You will also develop strategies to approach and cultivate new business targets using a strong internal network that includes talent from across Brunswick’s entire offering, as well as your own external network.

Directors ensure the smooth running of teams by establishing clear roles, managing performance, and ensuring that all key stakeholders and client needs are being covered by the team. You will work closely with Partners on all aspects of client management, including account finances, fee negotiation, and adviser meetings.

Our work in the Nordic region

• Brunswick Group provides companies, institutions, and organisations in the Nordics with counsel and stakeholder relations support. This includes crafting bespoke communication strategies to enhance reputation, promote stakeholder engagement, and ensure consistent messaging.
• We help our clients across the Nordics to navigate challenging situations with effective communication approaches that safeguard reputation and public confidence. We help our clients communicate changes effectively to their stakeholders, ensuring transparency and mitigating potential issues.
• Brunswick Group aids in navigating and communicating the largest and most complex mergers, acquisitions, IPOs and other corporate transactions in the Nordic region.
• We support Nordic businesses in their sustainability and corporate social responsibility initiatives. Our team offers strategic advice and communication solutions to effectively share these efforts with their stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Advise Corporate clients on a range of issues, both specific to Corporate companies and applicable to businesses more broadly.
• Develop and maintain strong and trusted relationships with senior client contacts to deliver strategic advice.
• Drive large, complex account teams, providing strategic direction and overall accountability.
• Actively extend internal and external networks and draw insights and opportunities from these.
• Regularly manage sensitive and complex media and/or regulatory issues.
• Work with a variety of client and pitch teams, serving as a regional practice group / sector expert for other geographies and specialist offers.
• Use deep knowledge of the Corporate to promote new business approaches and ideas.
• Identify new opportunities to deliver additional Brunswick expertise to clients; actively pursue and secure extensions of client relationships.
• Act as a leader on teams, providing strategic direction based on Partner guidance and ensuring teams are working effectively.
• Foster development of team members’ skills; serve as Development Mentor for junior colleagues.

Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies

• A strong track record either working in an advisory role within Corporate, or consulting experience advising Corporate clients.
• 8+ years’ relevant professional experience.
• Deep understanding of business and Corporate, with first-hand experience of handling highly topical issues, and an extensive network from which to draw intelligence.
• An understanding of the interplay between corporates, the financial community, the political and regulatory arena and social stakeholders.
• A strong understanding of corporate positioning, and how to develop strategies that can translate into programs with real sustained impact.
• Experience in media-handling, with extensive knowledge of the Corporate media landscape, would be highly beneficial.
• Ability to operate effectively in a commercial, self-starting, and fast-paced environment.
• Experience advising senior business leaders with efficacy and diplomacy.
• Ability to connect with and leverage the skills and expertise of colleagues, to deliver the best possible advice, campaigns and programs to clients.
• A strong verbal and written communicator with high EQ levels and an engaging presentation style.
• A global perspective and experience working with international businesses or organisations.
• A balance of creative and analytical thinking, bringing rigor, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• A natural team-worker who prefers to work in a collegiate way.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

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.

Brunswick is an equal opportunities employer and our Equal Opportunities Policy is available on request.

About Brunswick Group

Brunswick is a critical issues firm. We advise the world’s leading companies on how to navigate the critical issues they face and engage with their critical stakeholders.

Our purpose is to help our clients play their role in the world more successfully. We help the leaders of the world’s great value-creating organizations operate successfully across the increasingly complex and fast-changing arenas of finance, politics and society at large.

Brunswick is one firm globally, operating as a single profit centre. This allows us to respond seamlessly and effectively to clients’ needs wherever they are in the world.