Description

Who We Are  

FTI Consulting is the world’s leading expert-driven consulting firm. Over the last 40 years, FTI Consulting experts have served as the trusted advisor to Fortune 500 companies and the world’s leading law and private equity firms when they are facing their greatest opportunities and challenges. Our strong performance and continued success are a direct reflection of the ambition, energy, and commitment of our talented professionals across the globe to make a positive impact for our clients and communities.  

At FTI Consulting, you’ll be inspired and empowered to make an impact on headline matters that change history. Working side by side with the world’s leading experts in your field, you’ll be surrounded by an open collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and most importantly, you.  

There’s never been a more exciting time to join FTI Consulting and this is where you will do the most exciting and fulfilling work of your career.   

 Are you ready to make an impact? 

About The Role

We provide our clients with a comprehensive view of strategic communications that leverages our integrated suite of services, including financial communications, corporate reputation, transaction communications and public affairs in all the major markets around the world.

As a Senior Director on the Financial Services Banking team, you will provide counsel to world-leading banks and lead the development and execution of integrated communications strategies to drive visibility and enhance their brands with US stakeholders. You will also be expected to lead and advise clients through crisis and issue management across operational challenges, litigation, and legislative/regulatory matters. You will have strong media relationships, and a track record in leading successful media-focused campaigns and managing sensitive client issues.

A successful Senior Director is an intellectually curious and a confident self-starter with the ability to organize and prioritize client and internal demands in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment. A Senior Director will be comfortable speaking with media and the C-suite of the world’s top banks. The ability to develop and maintain a strong ‘trusted advisor’ relationship with teammates across FTI’s practices in the US and globally, is critical to success. You should be able to inspire and lead account teams, with a client-focused mindset and a commitment to delivering quality work at all levels. You will demonstrate an ability to identify and secure new business opportunities for the firm, and be committed to offering creative, integrated solutions to clients and in new business pursuits.

What You’ll Do

• Strategic Counsel: Provide expert communications, advocacy, positioning and other strategic counsel to clients. You must have experience and comfort interfacing with the C-suite.
• Execute with Media: Be able to work with the media – traditional news, digital, trade, broadcast, podcasts – to shape coverage and secure meaningful interviews for clients.
• Account Management: Manage multiple accounts in a dynamic, fast-paced environment. This includes ensuring your team meets client deadlines, managing billing/hours, and staying up to date on client information. This can mean early morning or later evening calls as clients span the globe.
• Be Creative: Bring outside of the box ideas to clients that highlight our team’s communications skills and the rest of the firm’s capabilities.
• Stay Connected: Maintain relationships with journalists and producers, trade associations, think tanks, and relevant industry leaders to secure platforms for clients and enhance and grow business.
• Be the Face of FTI: Attend conferences and industry events to prospect and network.
• Build Up Your Teammates: Actively manage, develop, inspire, and motivate your team to excel.
• Think Around the Corner: Anticipate potential challenges and evaluate strategies with senior management. Help clients identify and escalate risks in order to act and communicate with integrity.
• Business Development: Identify emerging opportunities to add greater value for existing clients. Proactively prospect and maintain client relationships. You will own a revenue target.
• Understand and live by FTI’s values, Code of Ethics and the Strategic Communications Rules of Practice, and work with junior staff to embed these concepts within the firm’s culture. (Additional information about FTI’s values, Code of Ethics and the Strategic Communications Rules of Practice can be accessed here.)

How You’ll Grow  

Direct access to leadership with defined long-term career planning will ensure you continue to develop your skills as a communications and human manager. This position also allows the unique opportunity to partner with internal teams in various specialty areas to tackle a myriad of high visibility client challenges across industries. With an emphasis on a collaborative team approach, we all learn from each other as we share diverse perspectives and ways of working to best meet client challenges and continue to grow the firm. 

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