Senior Vice President, Strategy & Communications

Teneo

As a Senior Vice President with the Strategy and Communications team at Teneo, your role will include:

• Client Leadership & Strategic Advisory - Serve as a trusted advisor to multinational clients on all aspects of corporate reputation, campaigning, and strategic communications. Lead the development and deployment of integrated communications strategies, leveraging research, insights, and Teneo s global resources. Provide expert counsel on reputation management, stakeholder engagement, and proactive storytelling as well as advise clients on special situations, issues management, and crisis communications.
• Campaigning & Communications Execution - Oversee the planning and execution of high-impact, multi-channel campaigns (media, digital, internal comms, etc.) to shape public perception and drive client objectives. Ensure quality assurance of content development across diverse formats (key messages, talking points, speeches, op-eds, media engagements). Monitor media narratives, geopolitical risks, and reputational issues, providing timely advisory notes and insights to clients.
• Account Management Lead on account delivery, managing a team of experts to deliver high quality client servicing and acting as the main point person with the client. Actively coach and mentor junior team members.
• Client Management Build and maintain strong relationships with the client, seeking growth opportunities where possible. Proactively manage the client and work to take advantage of opportunities/ resolve issues as needed.
• Business Development Actively build a network of new client/ prospect relationships, working on new business opportunities including leading proposals and participating in client pitch meetings. Demonstrates commercial acumen in costing and managing the delivery or projects. Develops understanding and fluency across Teneo s wide breathd of service offerings.
• Leadership Takw responsibility for managing junior colleagues, supporting their performance reviews and career growth within the firm. Supporting the smooth running of client servicing operations.

Furthermore, you will be expected to:

• Build strong relationships, fostering long-term partnerships and seeking organic growth opportunities through new business proposal development;
• Create advisory notes for client leadership, addressing media narratives, geopolitical risks, and reputational issues, while monitoring media coverage for clients and competitors;
• Provide support and insight to your client teams, proactively highlighting opportunities, and potential areas of concern;
• Build a strong network of effective relationships internally and externally;
• Proactively seek formal and informal learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth and contribute to the sharing of learnings across the wider team; and
• Actively coach and mentor junior members on your account teams.