Change, Culture and Engagement: Director

Teneo

As a Director you ll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients, playing a pivotal role in key multiple, high-profile account teams, offering strategic counsel to senior clients, providing insight and analysis across our business, and proactively contributing to developing additional business opportunities with existing clients and prospects.

Directors support and mentor Senior Consultants and Consultants, and work into and learn from Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors.

Key Skills and Experience Consulting skills

Essential:

• Confident managing projects in a complex business environment
• Expertise in managing and advising a variety of stakeholders
• Strong capabilities in presenting complex ideas to internal and external stakeholders
• A genuine interest in people and how they operate in an organisational setting
• Confident in making strategic recommendations based on data and knowledge
• Strong aptitude for delivering a project through from prospect to completion
• Previous experience in change communications, change management, company culture or employee engagement
• Strong capabilities in facilitating workshops
• Play a leading role in prospective new business requests with confidence to write and deliver new business pitches
• Experienced in managing timesheets, budgeting and billing

Desirable:

• Previous consultancy experience
• Work in a large, complex multi-national organisation
• Academic training in disciplines such as psychology, political science, human resources management, statistics or economics

Business acumen

Essential:

• Expertise in navigating the media s business pages with an analytical lense
• Demonstratable knowledge and experience of different sectors of the economy
• Existing experience in management and leadership of juniors and wider teams
• Ability to manage upwards
• Strong numeracy skills, including working with balance sheets

Desirable:

• Experienced in the working of Boards and corporate governance
• Strong knowledge of associated issues like ESG, DEI, ERGs, TUPE, and OD.

Client Management

Essential:

• Experienced in overseeing management of junior team members on major projects,
• Confident capabilities in managing reports back to the team and the client on progress and key deliverables
• Strong leadership of day-to-day liaison with clients alongside Managing Directors and Senior Managing Directors, understanding how their priorities may change, setting clear expectations and ensuring that team leaders are aware of any potential issues
• A demonstrated understanding and empathy for the strategic challenges our clients face, and the ability to make relevant suggestions for how they should respond
• Leading on creating compelling, concise and professional presentations for clients that you either deliver yourself or are delivered by your colleagues

Team

Essential:

• Strong abilities to manage and prioritise workload when working on multiple different projects
• Managing key updates for team leaders, working within the senior team, keeping senior team abreast of progress and aware of issues and opportunities
• Management of junior colleagues, ensuring they are thoroughly briefed and understand what is expected, as well as managing upwards
• Confident and demonstratable experience in strategic decision making
• A passport and the ability and willingness to travel internationally when required (currently quite rare.)
• Contribute and lead on shaping the direction of a client account: anticipating client needs and identifying new business opportunities via organic growth and securing new clients

Desirable:

• Experience gained within another consulting firm / environment
• Comfort working in international and multi-disciplinary teams

Qualifications/additional skills

• Educated to degree or equivalent level in a related field
• Around 10 15 years experience gained in a comparable role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Reliability and trustworthiness our clients rely on our judgement and discretion
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office. Including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams and SharePoint
• Strong presentation skills
• Curiosity, adaptability and resilience