Consultant in City of London

Kekst CNC is a global strategic communications firm that specializes in protecting and enhancing our clients’ reputations. From offices around the globe, our team of 300 professionals provides expert communications counsel, informed by judgment, insights, and data‑led analysis. We apply our communications expertise across high‑stakes corporate, financial, and political matters, helping businesses communicate effectively through periods of disruption, transformation, and growth.

At Kekst CNC, we work with some of the world’s biggest corporate brands – helping them to deliver first class communication strategies that build trust, reputation, and engage with key stakeholders. To support our ambitions, we are looking for highly motivated Consultants and Senior Consultants to join and contribute to our organisation. If you are an accomplished communications practitioner with significant agency or in‑house experience in leading communication programmes and campaigns – now could be the time to have a conversation with one of London’s fastest‑growing integrated communications consultancies.

In particular, we are looking for candidates who have expertise in one of the following:

• Energy, extractive industries and industrials
• Science, healthcare or pharmaceutical industries
• Public affairs with a focus on policy, ideally with Labour Party connections
• Financial communications including advising public and private market clients, private equity, working with UK PLCs, and knowledge of investor relations
• Issues, crisis, and cyber communications, and special situations

You will play a pivotal role at the heart of our business – maintaining, developing, and extending client relationships in an entrepreneurial environment.

Responsibilities:

• A strategic adviser: providing strategic counsel and guidance to senior business leaders confidently in a wide variety of fields including but not limited to corporate communications, campaign strategy, reputation management, strategic content development, corporate narrative development, and stakeholder mapping.
• A skilled writer: drafting strategic, high‑quality briefing documents, communication plans, content plans, narratives, messaging, and positioning for clients.
• A passionate builder of relationships: developing and expanding our client relationships; identifying potential leads and areas of growth with existing clients as well expanding our reach and relevance with a broader set of businesses with new ideas and services.

Qualifications:

• Strong communications expertise: The Consultant role is for those with four to six years of professional experience in strategic communications, either at PR agencies or in‑house communications roles. Experience working with large, multinational businesses is an advantage.
• Intellectual rigor, excellent insights and problem‑solving capabilities: including knowledge and experience using insights tools, such as Pulsar, Factiva and Quid.
• Outstanding organisational, time and priority management skills: including the ability to effectively manage multiple projects at once.
• Leadership experience: in running teams, projects or workstreams through genuine collaboration to deliver value for clients; and develop and support junior colleagues with a mindset that drives overall team success.
• Excellent verbal communications and presentation skills: fluency in spoken and written English are a must, and additional language skills are a plus.
• Media relationships: an established media network that can be leveraged to promote and elevate client reputations.
• Drive to do the best by your clients: including travelling, networking and delivering when needed outside of core working hours.
• Strong command of all Microsoft Office programmes.
• The right to work in the UK and can demonstrate it if requested.

Your benefits:

• We’re a great place to work: Kekst CNC offers an inspiring working atmosphere, characterised by the highest level of professionalism in a challenging environment, lots of fun at work, and an open corporate culture where you can be yourself. We value diversity highly and are certain that we work better because of our differences; we best serve our clients by bringing together diverse skills, experiences, and backgrounds.
• The London office is a sociable and dynamic workplace and continues to grow at a rapid pace.
• A great place to learn: Our offering includes substantial training modules, an office exchange programme and a hybrid home office model. In support of our exciting development opportunities, we offer substantial training opportunities, and you will be assigned a Professional Development adviser when you join.
• A range of benefits: We offer a competitive salary, bonus scheme, a generous finder’s fee, the possible opportunity for short‑term transfer between offices, private health insurance, employee assistance programme, flexible public holiday policy (so you can celebrate the days which are special to you without having to comprise your own holiday allowance), volunteering hours, and much more!
• A truly global perspective: Although you will be based in London, you’ll join an international team and support with cross‑border projects, interacting with clients and colleagues all over the globe.

Recruitment Process: The recruitment process will consist of several steps, such as interviews, tests, and reference checks. We look forward to your application!

Kekst CNC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, age, religion / belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression, national origin, disability, marriage and civil partnership status, pregnancy and parental status, or any other characteristic protected under EU, state or local law, where applicable.