Teneo is looking for a talented and driven Associate Consultant (AC) with a passion for business, campaigning, and corporate communications to join our team. Teneo is an integrated communications consultancy, providing all aspects of strategic counsel to business leaders and CEOs.

As CEOs and leadership teams continue to navigate complexity externally and internally, and as the expectations among different interconnected audiences continue to rise, our award-winning campaigning team puts businesses on the front foot, enabling them to speak with clarity and consistency to multiple audiences across the public realm, from consumers and employers to NGOs, political stakeholders and investors.

This role is primarily to support Teneo’s corporate communications and campaigning accounts, joining a thriving team advising high-profile clients on how to create effective narratives, build positive media and stakeholder relationships and tell proactive stories which support a business’s strategic objectives.

We’re interested in meeting candidates with wide-ranging perspectives, and we’re open to hearing from you whether you currently work agency side, or in-house.

It’s key for us that you can cut across sectors and switch seamlessly between all our disciplines, from reactive issues management to proactive storytelling. And we’d love it if, like us, you’re intellectually curious, creative, collaborative, and eager to learn.

As an AC you’ll be the lynchpin for our client account teams – displaying strong project and time management skills, delivering regular insight and analysis, staying ahead of the news agenda, and supporting on clients’ reputational and strategic objectives. ACs manage and coach our Account Executives and work into and learn from our Managing Directors, Directors, Associate Directors, Senior Consultants and Consultants.

Working at Teneo

Teneo works with some of the world’s biggest brands across a wide range of sectors and issues, including energy, tech, FMCG and financial services. Our clients include a significant number of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100, as well as other global public and private corporations. We’re an ambitious, global consultancy which allows candidates unmatched opportunities to develop and work with inspiring, motivated people. Although this role is to primarily support our corporate communications and campaigning clients we actively encourage our people to grow and develop their advisory skills across all our disciplines, including financial and M&A, digital, creative campaigning and corporate communications, change and employee engagement, leadership coaching, sustainability, strategy and research, issues and crisis management, and restructuring and management consultancy, to solve complex business issues for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

As an Associate Consultant at Teneo, you will:

• Be reliable and responsive with a positive attitude and willingness to get involved without waiting to be asked
• Understand the importance of managing deadlines and proactively communicating about progress against them
• Have strong organisational skills to work across different client team, projects simultaneously
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail
• Provide media monitoring on clients and their competitors, using a variety of inputs and tools – resulting in useful insights and advice on implications for clients
• Build a strong network of effective relationships internally and externally
• Seek opportunities for growth on client accounts and support on writing new business proposals
• Provide constructive day to day feedback and coaching to more junior members of the team whilst being able to implement personal feedback received
• Be a positive, flexible and ambitious team player

Skills and Experience

• Around 1 - 3 years’ experience in a communications role, within agency or in-house.
• Strong media relations experience and contacts
• Confident in producing fast paced proactive media activity including: creative news generation to determine pitch angles, drafting media pitches, identifying relevant media, selling in / liaising with media, attending journalist meetings / briefings
• Good attention to detail whilst being adept at prioritising what tasks need to be achieved first; what can be de-prioritised
• Ability to support with drafting of issues statements, leading on monitoring, updating tracking systems and sharing summaries with client
• Experience in generating good quality research and presenting insights in a useable and engaging way, whilst being able to comprehend at times technical subject matter across different industries / sectors
• Ability to build solid client relationships and make valuable contributions in internal and external meetings
• Strong ability to grasp clients’ business objectives and relevant wider industry dynamics whilst being keen to learn more about navigating business challenges. 
• Enthusiasm about creativity and campaigning

What we can offer

New joiners are supported by an induction programme, and continuous development is a key focus of life at Teneo - learning and knowledge sharing are at the heart of this. We have an environment and culture that is focused on supporting your development and career progression. We support this with a dedicated Learning Team who provide a range of learning opportunities and personal development support. 

Our face-to-face learning is supported by some 100 modules of e-learning available on our internal knowledge management system.

Given our client base you’ll be working on career-defining work that is exciting, rewarding and one where you can make a real impact on high profile projects.

Company Benefits

As well as this we offer a whole host of benefits and reward including;

• Competitive salary (depending on experience)
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Pension (with company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave (depending on length of service) and shared parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities
• Flexible working with office laptop and phone provided

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions, and organizations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organizational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I. The firm has more than 1,500 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.