Associate Director

Milltown Partners is a global advisory firm working with influential organisations and individuals on the public policy and communications challenges that define their reputations. We are looking for a Brussels-based Associate Director who has technology policy and leadership experience to take a hands-on role in advising clients and colleagues, and helping to grow the Brussels office with the Head of Office.

The successful candidate will be an experienced tech policy leader with an extensive network in the EU institutions and beyond. They will have deep experience of working on a range of tech policy areas, ideally including fintech, within one of the institutions, in house at a tech company or as an external adviser.

They will join our ambitious and growing policy team in Brussels and will have the opportunity to work with some of the world's most interesting and influential tech companies on the issues that define their reputations and impact their success. Drawing on expertise within our teams in San Francisco, New York and London, they will support the Brussels office lead in all aspects of client advice and in managing the work of our Brussels team.

THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ROLE

Associate Directors are responsible for the quality of everything we produce. They ensure every team they are on has an agreed strategy, clear priorities, and consistently exceeds client expectations. Associate Directors work in partnership with the firm's senior management to set the scope, agree the fees and design the structure of our teams to ensure we have the right resources to deliver our best work. They give brilliant advice to our clients and coach their teams to do the same. Associate Directors are instrumental in the growth of the firm, helping to build external networks and lead on new business opportunities, while also supporting the design and delivery of plans for quality, talent and growth.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR ROLE

Leadership: defining direction and inspiring others to meet a common goal

Collaborating with senior management to set clear goals and priorities for your teams and holding everyone, including yourself, to account for meeting them

Building trust with clients in order to give the most impactful advice and support

Taking responsibility for the strategic direction and tactical choices for clients

Sharing your insights and experience in a way that allows the rest of the team to replicate your success

Drawing on the full expertise and resources of the firm to develop and deliver advice that helps our clients build and protect their reputations

Coaching individuals both in line management and on teams to identify opportunities to meet their goals

Innovation: pushing the boundaries of the work we do as a firm

Being a role model and leading by example in both managing and delivering exceptional work

Ensuring research, data and insight underpins all work that we deliver

Seeking expertise from outside the firm - European institutions, think tanks, business, academia - and using it to improve the quality of our advice and analysis

Identifying operational efficiencies that enable us to deliver our best work

Identifying opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing and growth for the business beyond your own client teams

Growth: Contributing to the future of the business beyond the boundaries of client work

Identifying and leading on converting new opportunities into work and extending our work with existing clients

Cultivating an external network that enables us to deliver impactful results for our clients (e.g. with policy and political stakeholders, subject matter experts or other advisers)

Developing and building your external network in order to attract new clients and reach potential referrers

Showing entrepreneurial thinking internally by identifying opportunities for collaboration, skills building and knowledge sharing

Contributing to a collaborative and inclusive work environment

Line managing Consultants, including setting development goals that enable them to perform at their best and stretch into new development opportunities

Giving and receiving regular feedback to people at all levels in the firm

Actively seeking input or assistance from others and reflecting their contributions in the work

Demonstrating allyship to all colleagues

Supporting the wellbeing of everyone on the team

ABOUT US

Milltown Partners is a global advisory firm working with influential organisations and individuals on the communications and public policy challenges that define their reputations. We are an Employee Ownership Trust which means that we're fully independent and will remain so; the people who work here own the company and share in its success. We will continue to do what we've always done: take the long view, build a business aligned to our values, invest in our people and their development, and innovate to improve the quality of our advice by combining our deep sector-specific knowledge and research-driven approach.

Our clients are leaders in their field: groundbreaking technology companies and their founders; global businesses and their CEOs; prominent individuals and renowned institutions. Technology and innovation are at the heart of our business and problem-solving approach, and we root our strategies in data insights and research on the audiences that matter, messages that work, and communications channels that deliver.

DIVERSITY, EQUALITY & INCLUSION AT MILLTOWN

Creating a diverse, equitably and inclusive environment is core to our values, culture and success as an employee owned business. We want to empower everyone in the team to share their best thinking and ideas, feel valued and know they are having an impact and belong in the business, regardless of their background, age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or disability. We have an ambitious DEI programme managed by a global leadership team of volunteers with three global company commitments to: improve representation of minority groups, enhance everyone's sense of inclusion and support underrepresented communities through pro bono work. Underpinning these commitments is a focus on what it means to have a DEI culture and how to measure that in our approach to growth, attracting talent and the impact of our work for clients.

• Experience of working on EU tech policy
• Excellent command of written and verbal English language
• Demonstrable ability to take a strategic approach to policy and public affairs, rooted in research, data and insight
• Experience engaging with different audiences across the EU public affairs landscape
• Experience building advisory relationships with senior stakeholders in order to deliver strategic counsel and insight, often on a short timeframe
• Experience developing political and public affairs strategies and managing relationships with senior stakeholders in the EU institutions and regulators
• Experience in organising successful events in Brussels
• Experience managing high-performing teams with diverse experiences
• Willingness to play a hands-on role within client teams and across the firm
• Intellectual curiosity to develop subject matter expertise in new topics, and share that with colleagues
• A highly motivated team member who values collaboration and is interested in coaching and building capability across the team
• A desire to seek out feedback in order to learn and develop
• Commitment to contributing to a supportive and inclusive culture

• Experience working in the European institutions
• Experience in relevant fields including media and communications
• Experience in the technology industry - either/or consultancy or in-house role
• Experience leading new business conversations, including RFP processes