Associate, Strategy

**Associate, Strategy and Communications - Singapore**

**The Opportunity**

As an Associate you’ll be responsible for providing the highest quality of service to our clients and play a pivotal role in driving forward activity across multiple account teams, delivering regular insight and analysis, and supporting clients’ reputational and strategic objectives. You will support a wide range of activity including narrative development, financial calendar communications, executive profiling, restructurings and M&A transactions, crisis management, media relations and ESG, government relations, stewardship and governance issues.

**Responsibilities**:
As an Associate with the Strategy and Communications team, your role will include:

- ** Research, Analysis and Advisory **- conduct research and analysis to understand market, geopolitical and/ or business trends. Leverage findings and insights to develop client advisory.
- ** Media Monitoring and Advisory** - lead monitoring news and coverage relating to client activities or related fields of interest, analysing information to derive insights that inform strategy and planning, and summarising in report form.
- ** Media Landscape and Engagement**- keep abreast of current trends, news, and developments in the media landscape. Build understanding and lists of media targets and influential journalists to support client account work. Supports the development of media engagement plans as part of communications activities.
- ** Content Development** - lead the creation of compelling and impactful content for various communications channels including traditional media, digital and social media. Collaborate with colleagues to develop client ready documents e.g. presentations, reports.
- ** Supporting Account Management** - assist the wider account team in managing client relationship by providing support during client meetings, developing and maintaining client communication materials, taking notes, updating project trackers, and helping to ensure all client needs are met in a timely and satisfactory manner.
- ** Financial Communications & Investor Relations -** research, ideation, messaging, content creation and copywriting. Support team in developing client ready documents e.g. presentations, reports, earnings releases, Q&A etc.
- ** Supporting New Business Development** - supporting senior members of the team with new business proposals e.g. conducting research and developing insights to support the proposal building process.

Furthermore, you will be expected to:

- Build strong client and team relationships;
- 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; and
- Proactively seek formal and informal learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth.

**Requirements**:

- Bachelor’s degree ideally in business, journalism, communications, public policy, finance or economics. A postgraduate degree is an advantage
- 2-4 years’ experience in corporate & financial communications, journalism, banking/financial services, management consulting or public policy is preferable;
- Possessing excellent verbal and written skills in English is essential for this role. additional language competencies at a business communication level would be an advantage
- Demonstrated leadership in managing multiple stakeholders while maintaining good relationships
- Strong ability to grasp clients’ business objectives to enable drafting of messaging and communications materials
- Familiarity with social media platform management (LinkedIn, X, etc.) an added advantage
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel
- International experience (study and/or work) a plus
- Have a strong appetite for geopolitics, macroeconomic/finance events
- Must display a strong work ethic, high standards and commitment to the role

**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, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,600 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

**Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion**

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer