Senior Consultant

Kekst CNC are a global strategic communications firm that specializes in protecting and enhancing our clients’ reputations. 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.

We enjoy high level access to 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. We are looking for a highly motivated Senior Consultant to join and contribute to a growing and ambitious organisation. If you are an accomplished communications practitioner with significant agency experience, then this could be an exciting opportunity for you to contribute to an in-demand service at a global, integrated communications consultancy.

In this role you will develop and implement integrated communications strategies that enhance and protect the reputations of prestigious corporate brands across a range of industries, from FMCG to Energy, with a focus on financial communications. 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 advisor: providing strategic counsel and guidance to senior business leaders confidently and maturely in a wide variety of fields, focusing on financial communications but also advising on corporate communications, campaign strategy, reputation management, strategic content development, corporate narrative development, and influencer mapping.
• A financial communications expert: deliver guidance to public markets clients on financial and capital markets issues, capital raising, investor relations, shareholder activism, earnings & financial reporting, M&A, IPOs and special situations; advise private markets clients on transactions, fundraising, corporate narrative, and special situations across a range of alternative investment practices including Private Equity.
• A campaigns strategist: supporting end-to-end integrated campaigns, from the development of insights, strategy, and content to their activation and measurement.
• A skilled writer: drafting strategic, high-quality briefing documents, multi-touchpoint 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 as expanding our reach and relevance with a broader set of businesses with new ideas and services.

Qualifications

• Strong communications expertise: The Senior Consultant role is for those with proven professional experience in strategic communications. Experience working with large, multinational businesses is an advantage.
• Financial cognizance including experience working in Private Capital and with UK PLCs.
• Business acumen and knowledge of investor relations.
• Key media relationships, understanding of and working with financial media.
• Issues management experience.
• Intellectual rigor, excellent insights and problem-solving capabilities, including knowledge and experience using industry tools, such as Pulsar, Factiva, Quid, and generative AI tools such as Microsoft co-pilot.
• 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.
• Earned a bachelor’s degree.
• Strong command of all Microsoft Office programs.
• The right to work in the UK and can demonstrate it if requested.

Additional Information

• Your benefits: Kekst CNC offers an inspiring working atmosphere, characterized 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 sociable and dynamic, and we have a hybrid work model.
• A great place to learn: In support of our exciting development opportunities, we offer substantial training opportunities, and you will be assigned a Professional Development Advisor when you join.
• A range of benefits: We offer a competitive salary, bonus scheme, a generous finder’s fee, private health insurance, employee assistance program, flexible public holiday policy, 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 considerations 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.