Opportunities
Kenya is a place of incredible economic opportunity and our client, an international PR consultancy, is taking advantage. We are working hand-in-hand with this highly respected business to source a Managing Director to lead its joint venture with a publicly listed communications company. You will be responsible for the day-to-day running of the business, senior client consultancy and acquisition of new clients. You'll need to be able to deliver serious consultancy and be prepared to roll your sleeves up to manage the minutiae of agency life. You will be extremely well looked after, given a great package (salaries quoted are net) and report to a highly entrepreneurial and charismatic CEO for the MENA region. As well as offering a beautiful business opportunity, Kenya also presents an incredibly high standard of living with stunning housing, lush, tropical developments and breathtaking golf courses. There is also a very serious opportunity in the medium-to-long term to forge a 'Head of Africa' role as the business grows.
This highly respected, well-known PR consultancy is looking to make a significant senior hire within its Consumer Health division, a Board Director. The team was created over five years ago and works with clients within the FMCG, OTC and nutrition arenas on both a retained and project basis. In addition to servicing its own clients, the division increasingly works with the agency's consumer and corporate teams to deliver complete communications programmes. As Head of Healthcare, you'll be an experienced Director with a consumer healthcare brand background and the ability to motivate, inspire and lead the team, you'll also be able to confidently grow existing clients and win new business. This is a great opportunity for someone ambitious to make an impact on this already successful business.
This leading independent PR consultancy based in central London is looking for a talented individual to head up its corporate practice. The consultancy has recently restructured and has entered a new phase of growth and motivation. Your role will be to lead and inspire your team as well as growing the business, with the support of the newly appointed MD. You'll need strong team management skills, first-class corporate and b2b PR experience and some reputation and issues management experience would also be useful. This is a great role for someone of associate level who is looking to opportunity to fast track to the Board.
This award winning, full service PR consultancy has recently undergone a reorganisation and continues to grow from strength to strength. With an already thriving digital practice they're keen to further expand this area and need someone to spearhead the team. As the Head of Digital Lifestyle you'll receive full support of the MD and other Board Directors and will be charged with growing the division as well as running the existing accounts and managing the team. This is a real chance for someone with lifestyle and digital PR experience to join an independent company on the ascendant.
An established Top 20 UK PR consultancy is seeking to grow its highly successful IT team with the hire of a Director/Head of Practice. The existing team is currently working on a number of named global clients, billing in the region of £2m and is 18 people strong. As head of the team, the director will be tasked with delivering realistic growth and margin targets whilst ensuring existing clients continue to receive first-class consultancy. People management will be crucial to success and a proven track record in this area is essential. In return, the role offers attractive and incentivising rewards, a seat on the board and real impact into the company's future.
A number of incredibly exciting opportunities exist within this rapidly expanding PR consultancy across the north Africa and Middle East regions. In particular we are tasked with finding hungry, ambitious agency practitioners from the western markets to drive and manage growth in a number of key strategic geographies. You should be entrepreneurial and have the willingness and ability to network proactively within a rapidly evolving economy. Crucially you should have a track record in corporate communications within an agency environment, be able to confidently build a business, nurture teams and also consult at senior executive levels with your clients. These geographies are growing at breakneck speed and the potential career opportunities within the group company are huge.
Our client is an independent food, drink and lifestyle consultancy with a fee income in the region of £1m and growing. The Managing Director now needs a No.2 to consolidate and manage this ongoing expansion. This is an excellent opportunity for a communications professional seeking autonomy and the chance to become involved in running and directing a business. The ideal candidate must possess superb client and team management skills in addition to a passion for, and a successful track record in, food and drink.
Our client is a highly regarded, high value PR consultancy with a superb reputation across the Middle East. We are helping it search for an internal communications and change management specialist to work on secondment at the agency's biggest client in Saudi Arabia. Based in Jubail, you will have overall responsibility for all 'manpower' communications - primarily high quality internal communications. You should have extensive experience in change management and internal communications, ideally supported by professional training in the discipline - organisational change, internal communications or broad-based corporate communications. It is crucial that you possess excellent project management skills and that you can handle complex projects. This is initially a project that will run to November but there is a possibility that it could continue indefinitely.
The London office of this global PR consultancy is working for some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies within its healthcare practice. The client activity is roughly split between UK domestic and international work. Reporting to the Managing Director of the agency you will have joint responsibility for the overall management of the healthcare practice, whilst managing most of the practice's international work. The agency has more than 50 wholly owned offices around the world and is part of a larger group. This role is ideal for a highly driven operator with excellent ethical healthcare credentials and the drive to grow a rapidly expanding business.
Based in London's West End, this fast growing mid-sized consultancy is looking for a director to run and look after a key team, which is responsible for three of the company's largest clients. Household names, these clients offer the chance to run truly ground-breaking campaigns in addition to representing significant commercial growth opportunities. A publishing, b2b and / or consumer background is required. People management and new business skills should be first-class. The role will have a strong influence on the running of the business and will act as no.2 to the MD.
Salary quoted is net income and is not taxed. This is a rare opportunity to market an entirely new concept in healthcare. Based in Dubai you will lead the marketing and communications for what is one of the UAE governments' most ambitious projects. This is a world-first in terms of the actual concept and as such presents huge marketing opportunities and challenges. You should be able to handle the entire communications strategy, be prepared to get your hands dirty, manage agencies, liaise with senior executive board management and keep a cool head. One of the key requirements is to 'get it' when it comes to discussing and managing the brand. This is a new brand, a new concept and as such requires an individual that knows that 'branding' is about more than logos. Crucial to the successsful promotion of the project is the effective delivery of messaging and brand guardianship. You should be able to acknowledge the commercial edge to this large investment vehicle as well as understand its intrinsic value to the UAE, its inhabitants and the larger global audience outside of the region.
Salary quoted is net and is not taxed. Based in Abu Dhabi you will lead the communications for this major new waterfront project. Whilst the project depends upon real estate development for its infrastructure, the concept is far more imaginative than most UAE property developments. This huge initiative, yet to be announced, stems from the UAE's intention to equip its natural population with the skills and training to become self-reliant in what is a rapidly evolving sector. This new project aims to provide a world-class range of vocational training facilities within a specific cultural sector. You should understand this region well but also be able to bring world-class communications skills to the table. You will need to be imaginative, tenacious and thick skinned to push forward an ambitious communications agenda during an extraordinarily busy time within this Emirate state. You will work closely with senior management, report to the COO and also work with government ministers. This is genuinely a rare opportunity - it has key points of difference to most infrastructure development programed in this region and will provide the chosen candidate with a real challenge.
The salary quoted is net and will not be taxed. This is a rare opportunity to set up, from scratch, a new office for a corporate and financial communications consultancy that is already very well established in the GCC (Gulf Coorporation Council). You will be expected to hit the ground running by setting up the office and pitching to new prospects straight away. The network is already being asked to carry out large-scale communications programmes in Abu Dhabi so this would be a relatively easy sell. However it does require an incredible amount of energy, tenacity, patience and understanding because of the idiosyncracies of the local business environment. This is be a superb opening for a dynamic, well humoured London-based practitioner who is keen to leave behind the ailing UK economy and move in to an environment that is fast, exciting and extremely challenging.
As the Head of this PR consultancy's financial services practice you will be responsible for looking after half of its entire client portfolio. This wholly owned business has a very good reputation for financial and corporate communications in the UK. The Dubai office has strengths in consumer PR alongside corporate reputation work for asset management companies and investment banks. You will be based in Dubai but also travel into Saudi on a very regular basis. Ideally you will speak Arabic and be able to hold your own with demanding, senior Arabic clients. It is crucial that you already have a strong knowledge of the region and are able to hit the ground running. This consultancy currently employs 25 people in its Dubai office and is growing rapidly. You'll play a key role in handling this growth, acquiring clients only of the highest calibre and sourcing excellent staff to service the work. This is a large role which demands commercial awareness and the ability to swiftly get up to speed.
Our client is a pan-Arabian advertising agency, which is wholly owned by a large global marketing services network. We are tasked with sourcing an experienced and sophisticated PR agency director to launch a brand new PR agency in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Your job will be to create publicity around the launch and build clientele for the new business. The goal of the new PR agency is to stand out from the crowd in the emerging Saudi Arabian PR scene by creating something new and dynamic. As well as the primary objective of building a stand-alone PR business, responsibilities will also include the support of existing Group advertising clients by expanding work into the discipline of public relations as part of an overall integrated marketing communications offering. The successful candidate will ideally have experience of building, running and launching a business - preferably a PR agency. This is a serious investment and the Group is hoping to secure a high-calibre and trusted individual who will stay with the business for at least two years. The new PR business will be part of the advertising company and branded as such. It has 14 years of local and international experience of creating marketing solutions in the region and a superb reputation. It has offices in Jeddah, Riyadh, Dubai and Beirut. The salary quoted is tax free.
We are looking for a CEO for one of our consultancy clients in India, a leading communications firm with strengths in corporate consultancy and public affairs. The primary objective is to develop the business, grow its senior people and enhance levels of service quality to that of international standards. The person needs to have very strong financial acumen, superb leadership skills and understand the dynamics of operating in India. The CEO will play an important role in chalking out a road map for the business so that it can emerge as one of the best corporate communications firms in the world. You will work very closely with the other leadership team members in creating goals and targets for the firm and you'll report to the Group CEO with a dotted line to the Chairperson. You will also help in setting international bench marks in service quality that should be reviewed on an ongoing basis. This is a very challenging role but one that offers an incredible scope for ingenuity and ideas within the framework of a cash-rich, zero-debt business that already has a reputation for excellence in what it does.
An incredible opportunity to take part in Abu Dhabi's rapidly expanding economy has arisen. Managing the Abu Dhabi branch of one of the world's leading global PR consultancies, you will head up a team of nine consultants and report to the regional CEO. This is arguably the most aesthetically pleasing, well-planned and expansive of the Emirate States and it is proving to be fierce competition to its more established Brother, Dubai. The State has huge oil reserves and a government backed investment authority that presents a real opportunity for all PR consultancies. This particular consultancy is leading the way with a burgeoning portfolio of government-sponsored clients that span a number of sectors. The State is also earmarked for significant growth in the financial services sector. The ideal individual will have world-class standards of agency management with a cast-iron ability to run a P&L. As with all of the Middle Eastern economies, running an agency can be a challenging experience so a cool head is important. Government experience is preferable but not a deal-breaker - the most crucial element is the ability to run an agency and handle a myriad of complex client and stakeholder relationships in a high profile corporate environment.
At the forefront of the communications industry, our client was one of the first PR consultancies to see the potential of digital. Already operating in this area for a number of global brands, it is now looking to hire an experienced director to drive the digital offering's success. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a track record in planning and executing digital communication campaigns covering the areas of online media relations, social networking and blogging. A real passion for this sector coupled with a strong new business drive are essential.
A quality and unique opportunity!! Heading up the 20 strong business of this high profile PR and events consultancy, the role will be to both consolidate the current growth whilst making significant conversions on the fantastic new business pipeline. The consultancy has a fascinating history and host of big name clients. Its environment and interaction with other creative agencies is second to none - it is an excellent working environment! The ideal candidate will come from a solid consumer background and have quality man and client management skills. There is a strong focus on evaluation and demonstration of bottom-line contribution for all campaigns. A track record in this arena is a must. Reporting to the MD you will enjoy real autonomy and play a central role in P&L reporting.
With a reputation for excellence this is the largest and most recognised PR consultancy in the Middle East. It has a rapidly growing business across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) with sizeable offices in the Kingdom of Bahrain, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. The role of deputy GM has been created to aid the growth of the business in Saudi Arabia. You will work closely with the regional GM and the CEO for the Middle East and North Africa to ensure that the agency continues to deliver the highest levels of client service, whilst taking P&L responsibility for offices in Riyadh and Jeddah. You will be capable of handling clients at a very senior level and be able to consult effectively to a range of audiences. Saudi Arabia is an incredible place - dynamic, fast-paced and culturally fascinating. This is an opportunity to work within a highly respected global organisation that offers an unparalleled long-term career path within the Middle East. The quoted monthly salary is tax free and will be between £3,800 and £5000 depending upon experience, inclusive of all travel and housing costs.
This role has been created to add diversity and creativity to the way in which this multi-award winning PR consultancy delivers financial services PR. Unlike most PR agencies that operate in vertical stand-alone practices, this financial services team straddles a number of different business units; taking advantage of the creativity of the consumer team, the politics of public affairs and the business brains in financial and corporate PR. Reporting to the Managing Director of the financial PR practice and with a dotted line to the CEO, this investment hire is intended to boost the agency's ability to deliver consultancy at a senior level and build on its reputation for excellence. You should be an experienced financial services communications practitioner preferably with a mix of agency and in-house experience.
This is an unusual but potentially fascinating opportunity working within India's largest communications consultancy as its in-house marketing director. The business is on a steep trajectory, experiencing substantial YOY gains and looking set to achieve growth of up to a third during 2008. To ensure that this highly successful consultancy attracts the right kind of business it needs to ensure that its own external message is right. You will be responsible for developing a pro-active marketing plan that is in line with business development objectives. The business is beefing up its senior management team with a number of very senior appointments, all of which are new roles. This agency has a reputation for excellence and has a proud track record of representing some of India's and the world's biggest brands. The primary objective in these hires is to bring all of the agency's systems up to world-class standards, a process that will enable the business to deal effectively with high levels of growth, both domestically within India and internationally.
Based in New Delhi, this is a rare opportunity to make an enormous impact on the value of an already outstanding public relations consultancy. Joining the Group management team and reporting to the CEO you will be responsible for upgrading the skill sets and operating procedures to world-class standards. This business is already renowned for the quality of its work, which focuses mainly on the corporate, business and public affairs sectors. It carries out a complex myriad of corporate reputation services for India's largest company and also has a raft of major international clients within its portfolio. With 350 staff, six wholly owned offices and a network of affiliates across the region; this zero-debt business is in superb shape and is highly profitable. Its rapid growth mirrors that of the Indian economy and looks set to grow by more than 30% during the coming year. Your role will be heavily strategic, working alongside senior partners within the Group and mentoring the Regional Director and office heads. This hire is happening alongside a number of other strategic hires within the group all aimed at raising the consultancy's standards of excellence.
This rapidly growing public affairs consultancy is searching for a CEO. Based in New Delhi and part of a much larger communications firm, the business is currently being run by a team of three senior ex-civil servants from the Indian Parliamentary system. The agency is experiencing a surge in growth, partly due to the pace of growth in the Indian economy and partly because there is a General Election in 2009. As the business grows there is a need to source a superb senior player, preferably from Great Britain, who can introduce world-class operational systems and further engender the culture of excellence in all of the work the agency carries out. India enjoys a Parliamentary system that is almost identical to that of the UK. The ideal candidate should be well versed in the Parliamentary system and preferably have experience of communications within government. It is also preferable that you have worked at a senior management level within a public affairs agency. This post offers a seat on the management board of the agency's parent group company and an opportunity to work very closely with the group Chair.
Based in Belgrade, Serbia, you will run this rapidly growing corporate and public affairs PR consultancy. This wholly owned network of PR consultancies is expert in the harder edge of corporate PR. It excels in public policy and stakeholder communications and is staffed with extremely bright and able practitioners with high-calibre corporate PR consultancy experience. As the General Manager of this office your major focus will be to handle the growth of the business, bringing in new clients and creating a bigger presence in the Serbian market. The office is already fourteen-strong and looks set to expand further during the next twelve months. There is also the potential for this role to encompass the Croatian market over time. This is a great opportunity to experience living in a newly liberalised part of Eastern Europe that is enjoying an unparalleled period of peace and economic prosperity. Big business is flocking to this part of the world, which in itself is making growing business a much easier task than within the UK.
Perhaps one of the country's most highly sought-after PR consultancies is searching for an intelligent corporate practitioner to straddle corporate and public affairs. You must have an outstanding track record in delivering major campaigns with expertise in leading high profile media strategies and stakeholder relations' activity. Experience of working for corporate clients - either in consultancy or in a senior role in-house - would be a particular advantage. This consultancy operates at the highest levels across predominantly blue chip corporate and governmental clients and delivers expertise in every aspect of reputation management, crisis and issues, lobbying and media strategy. You will need to demonstrate a flair for the broad brush of current affairs and the business world and have strong analytical, presentational and written skills. This is a truly excellent consultancy and as such presents an opportunity to work alongside the very best practitioners in the corporate communications industry.
As the only international media relations director for this major financial institution you will play a lynchpin role in building a positive profile on a global scale. It is important that this organisation builds momentum in every major market because it is increasingly trading with companies across the world. You will be able to command authority with senior Arabic officials and deliver a coherent PR strategy that can be rolled out in every region. This is an incredibly exciting and fast-moving period for this organisation and the role requires the ability to work rapidly and under pressure.
Working for one of the biggest PR consultancies in the world in the rapidly growing PR markets of Eastern Europe, you will play a pivotal role in handling a diverse and exciting portfolio of global brands. You will be responsible for managing a large business unit that requires the ability to straddle consumer and corporate PR whilst quickly getting up to speed on the intricacies of a new and very different media landscape. This is a rare opportunity to experience an emerging market and take advantage of a substantially better - and much cheaper - lifestyle.
A rare opportunity to work on a fabulous portfolio of big brand beauty products has arisen at an award-winning global PR consultancy. You will operate at a senior level within the agency and be responsible for delivering the highest levels of client service - with creativity as the watchword. You should have a background in consumer brands with an excellent understanding of the beauty industry. You'll understand consumer behaviour and also have the ability to manage a profitable P&L, have good commercial know-how and a nose for new business.
As the Director of this excellent medical education practice you will take charge of a 14-strong agency team, delivering high-quality programmes to existing clients and generating new revenue through organic growth and geographical expansion into the US. Current clients include some of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies and the activity focuses on sophisticated, broad-based medical communications programmes across a wide range of therapy areas. You should be able to develop strategic communications plans that bring products to market, tailoring services from a stable of services that includes clinical trial gap analysis, publication planning and key opinion leader development and management. This global agency is investing in its medical education capability and is expanding in to new geographies. It puts existing client business first and is winning awards for its focus on delivering highly creative and strategic medical campaigns.
Our client has a wide network of PR consultancies across Central and Eastern Europe. The Prague office is looking for someone to develop its business, ensuring best practice across all client work and driving new business development to take advantage of the highly favourable market opportunities. This role would suit an individual with a natural sense of enterprise who is experienced and comfortable in providing high-end corporate and PA counsel; has a strong new business track record (not just in pitches but in networking, cultivating relationships & proactively targeting companies at board level); is good with senior client relationship handling, and can motivate and lead a dynamic developing team of 20+ consultants.
This global corporate and financial PR consultancy, known for its very high standards, is looking to hire senior directors in the financial and corporate PR fields. The individuals hired must be capable of generating income immediately, attracting clients that it otherwise mightnot win. This is a very entrepreneurial environment, incredibly driven, tough but very friendly. The watch-words are fairness, intelligence, ambition and integrity. This consultancy pays its staff incredibly well but expects results in return. In exchange for delivering excellence you will receive a very generous salary, excellent incentives and the opportunity to work with some of the PR industry's most impressive individuals.
With a reputation for the very best in corporate and public affairs, this superb independent agency is working for a huge number of the world's leading companies in sectors as diverse as healthcare, technology, aerospace, engineering and the environment. It is extremely profitable and as part of its growth strategy is searching for a high-calibre director. This is a new role, which is being made as an investment. Your experience should be within highly strategic corporate PR and / or public affairs - preferably a blend of both. Your expertise in terms of sector is not important - however you must posses intellectual dexterity, a superb track record in client servicing and the hunger to play a leading role in building new business.
With major expansion across the Middle East and Asia Pacific, this renowned international agency is searching for highly ambitious senior PR practitioners to lead the development of its business in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and India (Mumbai). Existing cross-border client activity provides immediate implementation opportunities in new and emerging markets. This is an opportunity for a seasoned PR professional to experience an entirely new culture and progress his or her career to a truly global level.
A superb city financial PR consultancy is searching for a heavy hitter to join its ranks as a director. This agency, founded by two well-known financial PR mavericks, is growing at a fast pace and in its short four years has worked for a serious number of FTSE clients, delivering IPO, M&A, results, corporate strategy and reputation management. Its approach is slick, sharp and intelligent. The founders are both extremely well connected and are driving a hugely successful agency. Their new director-level hire will be intelligent, proactive, a natural networker with superb top-level contacts in the business community and a hungry attitude to developing business. There are big rewards in this consultancy for an excellent operator.
This very highly regarded specialist healthcare PR consultancy is searching for an extremely driven and ambitious ethical practitioner to head up its global activity. You will pick up a portfolio of existing business and lead the growth of the agency's international work. This agency is very well known for its excellence in campaigns and is regularly winning awards. This is a superb business which rewards its staff highly and is perhaps one of our most sought-after employee destinations.
