Managing Director - Corporate UK

  • Daniel J Edelman Holdings
  • Dec 11, 2022
Full time Executive

Job Description

We are a leading global communications marketing firm helping business and organisations evolve, promote, and protect their brands and reputations. We are independent and family owned, which allows us the freedom to deliver original thinking and invest in our clients.

In the UK, there are more than 600 employees based in our offices in London, Victoria. We create award-winning creative communication programmes for a multitude of global clients.

We have deep expertise and advise on consumer trends, research, analytics and insights, corporate reputation, health, technology, capital markets, crisis, energy, and government affairs.

We have also developed the Edelman Trust Barometer. Now in its 22nd year, this is a global study of trends and behaviours relating to the key drivers of trust across government, the media, NGOs and Business.

Our key clients in the UK include Shell, Microsoft, Meta, DP World,

About the Team

We create commercial value by delivering campaigns and advisory work for companies and brands that operate in the full glare of the public spotlight and whose businesses are shaped by their reputation.

We have deep industry expertise and a proven track record for delivering integrated media strategy, digital and content production, crisis planning & response, litigation & legal affairs, employee engagement & advocacy, research & analytics, capital markets and government affairs.

The team is made up of more than 100 consultants specialising in all areas of the corporate discipline and including former journalists, senior in-house practitioners, government advisors and industry specialists as well as dedicated sector experts.

We take pride in delivering exceptional work for our clients but, at our core, we are a non-hierarchical team who like to spend time together in and out of the office. We are relentlessly collaborative and supported by leadership who champion and celebrate our collective achievements.

Our London office is a central part of the wider Edelman EMEA team which leads the Corporate and Brand practices across the region. We are proud to work seamlessly with our colleagues across all countries providing a single solution to our clients' needs. We lead multi-territory client work either from London or on behalf of our Edelman partners across EMEA and globally.

Responsibilities
  • Develop a strategy to drive the next stage of growth for the UK corporate client portfolio
  • Create a team vision designed to challenge the traditional 'top-down' staffing structure, helping to find ways to evolve specialisms whilst encouraging team career growth and mobility.
  • Partner to develop strategies to recruit and retain top talent.
  • Find ways to share best practice for corporate communications.
  • Ensure seamless integration with the wider Corporate EMEA team.
  • Providing strategic advice to CEO and EMEA Leadership
  • Preparing and implementing comprehensive business strategies to unlock growth
Business Operations/ Strategy
  • Operational responsibility for the Corporate UK business including P&L ownership.
  • Drive growth organically through new business, ensuring strong go-to-market strategies, thought leadership and market positioning
  • Help create the corporate team of the future by bringing specialists together from across the business and developing and executing a strategy to ensure they can serve clients collaboratively across the EMEA region.
  • Build a strong network of relationships across the agency network to drive best work
  • Be a trusted source of high-level counsel to top-tier clients, whilst leading and effectively mobilising teams around client needs
  • Identifying potential leads and areas of growth within existing clients as well as broader new business opportunities
  • Counselling clients confidently and maturely on communications marketing including PR, digital, social and content creation
  • Overseeing client programs and driving creative campaigns
  • Full responsibility for overall financial management - forecasting, hours allocation for team members, project & plan budgeting, managing servicing levels.
  • Work in partnership with existing senior team to advance the commercial objectives of the business
  • Support and develop Edelman's IP and marketing initiatives, helping to develop our position in the market and maximising the role of the Edelman Trust Barometer for existing and potential clients
  • Be a role model in fostering good team management and relationship-building skills.
Leadership
  • To be a transformation thought leader who will drive change, innovation, partnership and pave new ground to propel the business forward
  • Lead and coach the senior management team to ensure that they are fully empowered to fulfil and execute their roles, and can support and inspire their teams
  • Identify, shape, attract and develop talent at all levels; retain and develop key employees through mentoring, motivation, feedback and learning & development opportunities
  • Foster a regional approach to client work at all levels and in all areas across the practice.
Requirements
  • A background in corporate management for UK and international businesses
  • An understanding of how Corporate intersects with other communications disciplines, including Public Affairs, Financial, Health, Consumer and Employee Experience
  • The ability to work in a matrixed organisation focused on delivering UK growth within an EMEA operating framework.
  • Experience in handling complex client issues and an ability to provide clients with clear, confident, and well-informed strategic counsel under pressure
  • Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills, with an ability to deliver a project against budget and deliver results
  • A track record of handling complex stakeholders with ability to influence and build trust.
  • Capability to think and apply solutions quickly
  • Strong communications skills, verbal and written
  • Strong knowledge of international business media landscape and digital platforms with network of contacts
  • Experience of multi-market coordination, working within integrated teams and across practices
  • Creative, ambitious, entrepreneurial with good initiative, strong organisation and attention to detail
  • Passion for networking, both internally and externally, to develop contacts and generate new thinking and ways of working
  • An inspiring and empathic leader with the ability to combine business growth, driving change and engagement across teams.

Edelman is a global communications firm that partners with businesses and organizations to evolve, promote and protect their brands and reputations. Our 6,000 people in more than 60 offices deliver communications strategies that give our clients the confidence to lead and act with certainty, earning the trust of their stakeholders. Our honors include the Cannes Lions Grand Prix for PR; Advertising Age's 2019 A-List; the Holmes Report's 2018 Global Digital Agency of the Year; and, five times, Glassdoor's Best Places to Work. Since our founding in 1952, we have remained an independent, family-run business. Edelman owns specialty companies Edelman Data & Intelligence (DxI) and United Entertainment Group (entertainment, sports, lifestyle).

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