Account Director, Brussels

**Opportunity**:
Brunswick is seeking a mid-level consultant (2 to 5 years experience) to join our Brussels office, working closely with the competition and antitrust team. In this role, you will work on some of the most-high profile and challenging global regulatory situations alongside Brunswick practice team and colleagues globally.

At Brunswick, we help the world's foremost companies communicate what they do, why that matters, and how they can transform to meet the needs of society. These businesses must demonstrate the value they create, manage critical issues, and respond to extraordinary events - including systemic risks to their business.

We create expertly defined public affairs and communications strategies that get to the heart of specific opportunities and challenges faced by corporates around the world. Our team in Brussels operates across the spectrum of EU activities with in-depth knowledge of policymaking in the EU and at Member States level and with industry expertise across sectors. We offer you the opportunity to work with exciting clients in an international team of bright minds.

As part of your role, you will produce high quality advisory documents demonstrating a deep understanding of clients and issues. You will be regularly providing advice and analysis to clients, and developing an advisory voice informed by research, experience and awareness of market trends and events. You will manage some key workstreams as well as guiding colleagues on the account.

You will also begin to develop a network and build relationships with clients, media, advisers, Brunswick colleagues and other stakeholders. You will work to develop your media-handling skills and have a good understanding of Brunswick's different sectors and specialist offers and how to connect them with clients as part of our one firm offering.

**Our work with the Competition, Antitrust and Foreign Investment Practice team**:
Brunswick's practice supports clients through merger control and foreign investment reviews, as well as market investigations. Our practice team combines a full technical knowledge of the legal processes involved, long-time expertise in M&A, litigation and (geo)political situations, and a deep bench of experts formerly from antitrust and competition agencies, law firms, government and business. We work in close partnership with clients and their appointed legal counsel to provide public affairs and communications support that creates an informed, balanced and positive environment for the regulatory approval process.

Specifically, we help clients identify and engage stakeholders such as competitors, customers, suppliers, government and media to craft compelling messages and design engagement strategies to effectively communicate the benefits of the proposed transaction. We also have extensive experience in supporting clients in national and international antitrust investigations.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Deliver media, political, regulatory and market analysis to clients, with intelligent insight and recommendations informed by data, analysis and experience.
- Manage the development of high-quality client documents, playing a key role in drafting, proofing, editing and version control, along with seamless project management of client workstreams.
- Guide junior colleagues in effectively supporting accounts.
- Work to develop a solid understanding of different sectors and specialist offers.
- Ensure all logistics for client meetings and events are executed smoothly, and manage upwards to ensure Brunswick delivers on time and above expectation.
- Begin to develop an advisory voice informed by research, experience and awareness of market trends and events.
- Nurture a network amongst peers inside and outside the firm, providing valuable insight for the firm and for clients.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Competencies**:

- Knowledgeable on business issues and current affairs; up to date on key trends, issues, commentators and debates, particularly as it relates to the competition and antitrust environment.
- 2 - 5 years' experience working within a communications agency or law firm, supporting clients on competition matters. We also accept profiles with experience from competition authorities.
- An understanding of business, finance, and politics, with a genuine interest in the area of antitrust and competition.
- Knowledgeable in financial and political issues and current affairs; up to date on international trends, key commentators and debates.
- Able to demonstrate excellent written research and analysis for business audiences; must be able to synthesize large amounts of intelligence across numerous sources in a timely but thoughtful manner.
- Proven project and/or program management experience, with the ability to oversee multiple fast-moving workstreams at any one time.
- A dynamic self-starter with a strong work ethic.
- High level of attention to detail and an intellectually rigorous, client-service at