Brunswick Group is seeking a Director to join our Mumbai office, advising clients across India and the wider region on high-stakes financial situations and moments of transformation.
Our work spans crisis and issue management, litigation, reputation management and contested financial situations, often in complex, fast-moving environments. The successful candidate will bring a nuanced understanding of India-specific business, regulatory, investor, and media dynamics, and ideally a blended background spanning advisory, in-house corporate experience, and media engagement.
Directors, alongside Partners, are senior leaders within the firm and drive client relationships, originating new business opportunities, and shaping sector and market leadership.
About the RoleClient Advisory & Leadership
- Provide senior strategic counsel to clients navigating financial situations, corporate transactions and crises.
- Advise Boards, CEOs, CFOs, and founders on stakeholder strategy, including investors, regulators, government, media, and employees
- Demonstrates a strong advisor–operator mindset, combining strategic counsel with hands-on execution to deliver high-quality outcomes for clients.
- Demonstrates excellent leadership and team coordination skills, translating ideas into clear action plans and driving successful high-quality delivery.
- Demonstrates strong client relationship and stakeholder management skills, building trust with senior leaders and navigating complex environments, competing priorities, and diverse interests with diplomacy and sound judgment.
- Apply strong understanding of India’s capital markets, regulatory frameworks (e.g., SEBI, RBI), and promoter-led business dynamics
- Lead and manage complex, multi-stakeholder mandates, often under intense scrutiny and compressed timelines
- Ensure high-quality delivery and oversight of client work, including financial communications, positioning, and narrative development
Financial Situations Expertise
- Advise on M&A (public and private), IPOs, take-private transactions, restructurings, and special situations
- Support clients in hostile or contested scenarios, including defense strategy and stakeholder engagement
- Translate financial complexity into clear, compelling messaging for varied audiences
- Provide insight into investor sentiment, market dynamics, and reputational risk in deal situations
Business Development
- Partner with senior leadership to originate and convert new business opportunities
- Lead pitch processes, bringing differentiated insights into India market trends and sector dynamics
- Identify opportunities to expand relationships across Brunswick’s services (e.g., crisis, public affairs, ESG, digital)
- Build a strong external network across corporate leaders, bankers, lawyers, investors, regulators, and media
Media & Stakeholder Engagement
- Demonstrate strong relationships with top-tier Indian business and financial media
- Advise clients in both proactive positioning and high-pressure reactive situations
- Navigate India’s rapidly evolving digital and news ecosystem, including real-time reputation management
- Bring experience engaging with or operating within media environments to shape narratives effectively
Team Leadership
- Ensure the smooth running of client teams, maintaining clear sight of the operational effectiveness of accounts, providing direction and project management; working closely with Partners on all aspects of managing performance from account finances to team roles to client deliverables.
- Lead teams with a clear focus on account performance and client outcomes, ensuring seamless execution, strong financial management, and high client satisfaction.
- Develop colleagues below director level, actively support their talent and growth, and equip them to progress. Engage and collaborate with colleagues across the firm at all levels to bring different areas of expertise to our client work and to contribute to mandates led by other practices/ sectors/geographies
What We’re Looking For
- 10–15+ years’ experience in relevant experience in communications, consulting or a related advisory role. across a mix of:
- Financial, Consulting or Communications advisory
- In-house corporate (e.g., investor relations, strategy, communications)
- Exposure to or experience working with media
- Demonstrated experience advising on financial situations
- Strong understanding of India’s business landscape, including promoter-led companies, regulatory complexity, and capital markets
- Proven ability to engage and advise C-suite and Board-level stakeholders
- Demonstrates exceptional writing skills, bringing clarity, structure, and insight to complex issues and producing high-quality, impactful advisory materials for senior audiences..
- Established relationships with Indian business, financial and/or policy media
- Experience managing teams and delivering complex projects under pressure
Core Capabilities
- Strategic thinking: Ability to connect business, financial, regulatory, and reputational considerations
- Communication excellence: Exceptional writing, narrative development, and message structuring
- Judgement: High discretion with sensitive situations and ability to operate in ambiguity
- Commercial acumen: Strong understanding of financial metrics, deal structures, and investor priorities
- Stakeholder insight: Deep appreciation of investor, regulator, government, and media perspectives in India
- Leadership: Motivates, challenges, and develops teams while maintaining delivery excellence
- Entrepreneurial mindset: Proactive, collaborative, and comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment
Personal Attributes
- High integrity and discretion in handling confidential matters
- Strong presence and credibility with senior stakeholders
- Emotionally intelligent, with ability to “read the room” in complex situations
- Resilient and calm under pressure
- Curious and well-informed on business, policy, and market developments
- A team player who invests in the success of colleagues and the firm
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. Please read our Global Privacy Notice to understand how your data is managed.
Skills Required
- 10-15+ years' experience in communications, consulting or related advisory roles
- Demonstrated experience advising on financial situations (M&A, IPOs, take-privates, restructurings, special situations)
- Strong understanding of India's capital markets, regulatory frameworks (e.g., SEBI, RBI) and promoter-led business dynamics
- Proven ability to engage and advise C-suite and Board-level stakeholders
- Exceptional writing skills and ability to produce high-quality advisory materials for senior audiences
- Established relationships with Indian business, financial and/or policy media
- Experience managing teams and delivering complex projects under pressure
- Blended background spanning advisory, in-house corporate experience, and media engagement
- Ability to originate business, lead pitches and expand client relationships across services (crisis, public affairs, ESG, digital)
- High discretion, judgement, commercial acumen and stakeholder insight specific to India
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
