Brunswick Group - Director, Sustainable Business

• Business development and practice growth • Pursue new business and prospecting, working with colleagues to source new leads, pitch to potential clients and secure extensions of existing client relationships. • Foster innovation: find new opportunities to create impact for clients, develop new methods and tools, and help keep us at the vanguard of our field. • Client leadership and advice • Lead internal teams on the delivery of mandates, from inception to research and analysis, through strategic development and recommendations, to activation of communication and stakeholder engagement plans; be ‘hands-on’ with client work; play a leading role as a day-to-day point of contact for your clients. stay close on quality and timelines, • Produce high-quality, impactful client-ready materials and content that are effective at executive and board level and help to land advice effectively. • Experience of working on complex issues at the intersection of business, politics and regulation, finance and social stakeholders such as NGOs and civil society organisations. • Understanding of corporate positioning, and inventiveness in conceiving and shaping campaign ideas and execution that can translate into programmes with real, sustained impact. • Strong networks in business and on societal issues, especially in Singapore. • A global perspective and experience with international businesses or organisations. • Experience in media handling, with knowledge of how to engage with journalists, media and use social media channels to reach different target audiences would be beneficial. • A consummate communicator, with strong verbal and written skills, an engaging presentation and conversation style (in person and online) and high EQ levels. • Strong enthusiasm for learning and curiosity, creative problem solving, and capacity to balance creative and analytical thinking. • A natural team-worker who prefers to work in a collegiate way. • Empathetic leadership, able to manage and mentor teams. Leading by example to work smarter, not harder, and deliver the highest quality to clients in all engagements. • Ability to operate and thrive in a commercial, self-starting and fast-paced environment – with a terrific sense of humour. • A clear point of view about how it is possible for companies to drive progress in this space – and the ability to identify and get ideas lifted off that can make an impact. • Proven commitment to and passion for business action and impact on societal issues. • Ideally, you will also have work-experience in Japan, or with Japanese corporates.