Account Director at Harwood Levitt Consulting

Harwood Levitt Consulting is a boutique consultancy that delivers strategic counsel on public coverage points for Fortune 500 corporations, industries, and organisations.

We carry strategic and inventive considering to a variety of cross-sectorial campaigns, bridging the hole between public affairs and administration consulting, influencing coverage, the general public and business methods. We assist corporations and organizations partaking throughout key ranges of nationwide, European, and world coverage. 

We’re a dynamic, numerous, and versatile group on the lookout for fast-thinking, artistic drawback solvers with consulting expertise who’re able to tackle new challenges and duties in a rising, dog-friendly agency. We love people who find themselves intellectually curious and are excited when our shoppers carry them a few of their hardest issues to resolve. We delight ourselves on our whiteboarding abilities and talent to remodel our shoppers’ issues and asks into an precise technique.

We need to rent at a senior place stage, comparable to an Account Director in Public Affairs, to work on a number of new tasks throughout completely different sectors, together with healthcare, sustainability, meals and agriculture. You can be managing the competing calls for of driving a number of key consumer portfolios, working with senior counsel, and managing small groups, with a monitor document of profitable consumer relationship administration.

For additional info on our work, please seek the advice of our web site and our profile on Finest in Brussels.

Key duties embrace:

• Management and integrity: Lead your challenge group to attain consumer targets whereas changing into your consumer’s trusted advisor
• Strategic considering and analytic capabilities: Present insightful strategic counsel to colleagues and shoppers on difficult public coverage and reputational points
• Planning and organisation: Ship workable public affairs methods and plans supportive of consumer targets underpinned by stable rationale, fashions and considering
• Content material improvement: Create communications and advocacy collateral and run multi-layered exterior campaigns
• Presenting and Communication excellence: Current your concepts clearly and creatively to maximise affect, and in entrance of senior NGO and enterprise management throughout workshops or different high-intensity settings
• Managing funds: Oversee yearly and project-based budgets for various accounts, and guarantee tasks keep inside funds
• Resolution-oriented: Proactively carry options or steered methods ahead when confronted with new challenges. ‘Can do’ perspective is a should in a rising firm! 

Expertise / qualities we’re on the lookout for:

• Data of an business sector, particularly healthcare and/or sustainability, chemical substances/vitality, meals & drink, crop science
• Writing and editorial abilities with expertise drafting political narratives, positioning, and advocacy supplies
• Expertise organising digital and F2F occasions, e.g., workshops and webinars, trainings, large-scale stakeholder occasions 
• Skill to deal with massive quantities of data and to translate it into centered verbal and written inner briefings & exterior place papers
• Skill to successfully prioritise and handle competing calls for
• Expertise with direct reviews / line administration
• Skill to handle a group successfully
• Wonderful spoken and written English. Data of different languages is fascinating

The candidate’s required {qualifications}:

• 4+ years’ expertise (as much as 7 years): ideally with consumer/stakeholder relationship administration, both in-house or with a consultancy or commerce affiliation
• A monitor document of managing a portfolio of shoppers and a number of tasks, assembly consumer expectations and sustaining high-quality work product
• Expertise managing small groups and being a direct line supervisor to junior colleagues supporting their skilled improvement
• Skill to assume critically and clear up issues: confirmed monitor document of discovering options to advanced public affairs points and talent to speak them successfully
• Wonderful communication abilities with skilled proficiency in spoken and written English
• Good data of PowerPoint and expertise growing shows and communication supplies

What we provide:

• The chance to affix and thrive in a singular strategic and inventive setting
• A gorgeous wage package deal with complete advantages
• Alternatives for quick improvement into extra senior roles within the firm
• Annual efficiency bonus and pension scheme
• Beneficiant holidays
• Coaching alternatives pushed by your studying targets
• Versatile working hours and teleworking
• Lovely and inventive workplace within the coronary heart of Brussels
• A dynamic and numerous working setting

Beginning date: asap (versatile)

Functions ought to encompass a CV (n.b. PDF format) and a canopy letter. Please ship your utility to jobs@harwoodlevitt.com with the title “Account Director Public Affairs” within the topic line. Deadline is Thursday, 29 February 2024. Typos will instantly disqualify your utility. As a result of excessive variety of functions we obtain, solely short-listed candidates shall be contacted.

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