Senior Employee Engagement Consultant

Emperor is an employee-owned corporate communications and creative agency with 250 partners specialising in reporting, brand, digital, employee engagement, change and sustainability. We want to be the agency of choice for ambitious talent. Our culture is one where you’re free to do, learn and achieve better. We welcome every partner to experience a sense of belonging; whoever you are, wherever you’re working from, whatever your role. Our values guide how we work every day, with each other, our clients, and suppliers. With our friendly inclusive environment, effort and empathy, we make the feeling real. The wellbeing of our partners is a big focus at Emperor, which is why we have a dedicated Wellbeing and Pledges Manager to ensure our minds and bodies are working in sync to support our great ambitions. Our employee-owned status helps us see working life differently, purposefully, and collectively. We’re fully committed to responsible business that leaves a positive footprint for our clients, our partners, communities, and society.

The Role

Please note this is a 12 month fixed term contract

As a Senior Employee Engagement Consultant, you’ll be increasingly an expert in your core proposition (sustainability, brand and marketing, corporate reporting, employee engagement or digital strategy) bringing subject matter expertise to clients and colleagues. Success in this role means being a solid strategic performer trusted to regularly run your own projects, delivering quality strategic advice to clients and contributing to the ongoing growth, profile, evolution and success of your proposition at Emperor.

A Senior Employee Engagement Consultant may be focused on providing solid strategic advice to clients: guiding them through brand and communication challenges, and demonstrating critical thinking to develop effective strategies and solutions. The role will include:

• Leading client engagements such as stakeholder interviews, workshops, presentations and discussions: building trust
• Regularly and consistently applying proven strategic tools, models, processes and theories
• Developing expert commentary around emerging trends, best practice and regulatory changes in your specialist area, and using these to add value to clients and Emperor
• Playing a key role in business development by being a subject expert in proposals and pitch presentations, shaping outputs and collaborating with client services, creative and other proposition consultants
• Supporting the development of more junior consultants.

Responsibilities

• Providing senior-level consultancy, delivering strategic advice, insights, and solutions that shape clients’ businesses
• Being a strategic lead on medium sized client projects, working in partnership with other teams to ensure realisation of strategy from insight to execution
• Building and nurturing day-to-day client relationships
• Helping to develop and deliver compelling pitch presentations, shaping proposals, and helping secure new business opportunities.
• Actively contributing to thought leadership and external relationship and profile building activities
• Staying ahead of regulatory and market developments, translating these into strategic opportunities for clients and potentially Emperor’s service offerings
• Mentoring and coaching junior team members, supporting their professional growth

What you’ll need to be successful in this role:

• Success of working single handedly on medium sized projects
• Consistent strategic output
• Client satisfaction focused
• Development of subject matter expertise
• History of contribution to new business, proprietary research and thought leadership
• Have been a formal line manager in the past, supporting and developing team members in their success

Next Steps

If you are successfully shortlisted for the role, the recruitment team will be in touch via email, and the process will begin from there. We endeavour to contact you within 5 working days of your application, however, this may vary depending on the volume of applications we receive. Good Luck!

As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.