Leadership Communications Senior Advisor

About us:

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

About the role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Leadership Communications Senior Advisor to join our Leadership Communications team in London. This is a key role supporting our Senior Partner and Firmwide Managing Partner, helping to shape and deliver the voice of the firm’s most senior leaders across internal and external platforms.

You will work closely with senior leaders, their support teams, and colleagues across Communications & Corporate Affairs to deliver high-impact, strategic communications that advance the firm’s strategy, vision and culture.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• Coordinate, edit and refine a wide range of executive communications, including internal announcements, leadership updates, speeches, talking points, external statements and digital content.
• Ensure executive communications are aligned with leadership calendars and strategically sequenced.
• Advise senior leaders and their teams on narrative, tone and key messages, ensuring content reflects the firm’s vision, business priorities and values.
• Provide communications support for major engagements such as town halls, client events, interviews and public speaking opportunities.
• Monitor and distil business developments, external trends and competitor activity to inform executive messaging and identify opportunities for proactive thought leadership.
• Ensure quality, consistency and confidentiality in all executive communications, in line with firmwide standards and best practice.
• Integrate leadership messaging into broader campaigns, projects and change communications, collaborating with colleagues across the Communications & Corporate Affairs function.
• Prepare briefing documents, Q&A packs, presentations and background materials to enable senior leaders to communicate confidently and effectively.
• Contribute to feedback mechanisms and post‑engagement analysis to continually improve communications style, resonance and impact.
• Provide timely support for sensitive or urgent communications, helping to manage risk and protect the reputation of the firm and its leaders.
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all levels to ensure executive messaging is informed, relevant and contextualised for global audiences.

We are ideally looking for:

• Significant experience in a communications advisory or writing‑focused role, ideally within a global professional services, legal or corporate environment.
• Demonstrated ability to draft high‑quality speeches, scripts, messaging and executive announcements for senior audiences.
• Proven experience supporting C‑suite or senior leaders in high‑impact engagements.
• A strong record of aligning communications with organisational purpose, strategy and brand.
• Experience handling confidential or sensitive communications, including situations requiring an urgent response or crisis management.
• Familiarity with a range of internal and external communication channels and platforms.
• The ability to synthesise complex information into concise, persuasive content for diverse audiences.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with meticulous attention to clarity, tone and detail.

• The ability to quickly grasp and translate business priorities, vision and challenges into compelling messaging.
• Resilience and adaptability in fast‑moving or high‑pressure situations.
• Strong stakeholder management and collaboration skills, with confidence working across teams and seniority levels.
• Excellent organisational, project management and time management skills, with a focus on meeting deadlines and managing competing demands.
• Discretion, sound judgement and high integrity when handling confidential information.
• An aptitude for drafting materials suited to a variety of channels, audiences and event formats.

This role is based at the Linklaters London office with a hybrid working model available.

Our benefits:

Joining Team Linklaters will see you qualify for a range of benefits designed to reward the vital contribution you'll be making to our success. These include:

Health & Wellbeing

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

Application Policy

Applications and CVs (direct or via agency) are only accepted online via the portal. Queries related to our roles must be directed to the relevant recruitment team and not the partners, practices or stakeholders ([email protected] for legal roles or [email protected] for business team roles).