DIRECTOR, PUBLIC AFFAIRS MILANO, ITALY

Director, Corporate & Financial Communications The Opportunity Brunswick Group is seeking a senior professional to join the team in our Milan office, to specifically drive our communications offering across various sectors and practice offerings. The opportunity to also participate in Brunswick’s exciting portfolio of international assignments is a given. You will source and lead projects, deliver strategic content, valuable insights, and advice to clients, particularly supporting the senior management, in addition to identifying and delivering regular and proactive ideas for clients. Using an existing strong network, you will generate new client relationships, coupled with the ability to develop existing ones, in addition to recognising new business opportunities for the wider expertise of the firm. As part of the leadership team, you will need to lead and manage teams, establishing clear roles, managing performance, and ensuring that all key stakeholders and client needs are being covered by the team. Key responsibilities: Deliver strategic advice to clients, drawing on specialist sector communications expertise and depth of advisory experience. Demonstrate deep knowledge of a clients’ business and strategic communications issues. Influentially engage with key stakeholders and be experienced in building trusted senior advisory relationships. Business Development Source new business opportunities, apply knowledge and experience to lead well-run pitch teams and drive the pitch preparation. Use deep knowledge of key sectors to promote new business approaches and ideas. Assist in pitches for colleagues across regions and sectors. Identify new opportunities to deliver other Brunswick expertise to existing clients; actively pursue and secure extensions of client relationships. Build and maintain strong external networks to deliver valuable insight to clients and the Firm. Have an existing network with other communications professionals and/or advisors. Communication Skills Design and carry out tailored communications campaigns contributing to clients’ strategic goals. Write thoughtful, well-structured content; consider audience in style and tone of communications. Express a point of view in a thoughtful manner; able to analyze and distil complex information. A strong written and verbal communicator including fluency in Italian and English. Manage traditional, digital, and social media. Exhibit good judgement and exercise discretion. Question and challenge in a constructive way. Team Management Actively and effectively manage client account teams, driving day-to-day delivery. Provide advice and leadership across teams to ensure effective working. Foster development of team members’ skills and client handling ability by identifying new challenges and encouraging team to stretch where appropriate. A minimum of 18 years’ experience, working within a financial media, a law firm, a consultancy firm, corporate in-house environment, a Financial institution, or a communications agency. Deep experience in producing communication strategies, action plans, developing corporate narratives, and advice on creating and landing internal communications. Additionally, will have worked advising companies in a crisis, or other critical moments, such as strategy updates, CEO changes, mergers, and high value transactions, particularly advising the client’s senior management. Experience in managing teams of five or more people. A good working understanding of business and finance in general. Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment. A strong verbal communicator and an engaging presentation style. Energetic team player with strong self-motivation. Ability to think strategically and creatively, with strong problem-solving skills. Strong attention to detail with the ability to multitask in high-pressure situations. Entrepreneurial and collaborative spirit. A dynamic self-starter with a strong work ethic. Able to create Thought Leadership pieces for Firm initiatives. Good knowledge of written and oral Italian. 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. Background Founded in London in 1987, Brunswick’s global partnership has grown organically to 27 offices in 18 countries. We began as a M&A and financial communications firm and, over time, expanded our capabilities to provide expert advice to our clients on a range of business critical issues. #J-18808-Ljbffr