Vice President, Strategy & Communications

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**Vice President, Strategy & Communications - Hong Kong SAR** **The Opportunity** As Teneo continues to grow its presence across the Greater Bay area, we are seeking a Vice President to join their Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR. This is an excellent opportunity for a driven, commercially minded communications professional to build a long‑term career within a global advisory firm, working at the intersection of corporate reputation, financial communications, and complex stakeholder environments. Based in Hong Kong SAR, this role will support clients across Greater China and the wider Asia Pacific region, with a strong emphasis on integrated corporate communications, financial communications, and investor‑facing mandates. The successful candidate will bring experience advising senior leaders on market‑sensitive issues, financial narratives, and reputational risk. A Vice President at Teneo is a core member of our account teams, responsible for helping execute strategic communications programmes in support of Teneo’s clients. You will play a pivotal role in providing the highest quality of service to our clients and act as the day-to-day lead for all client projects and oversee team delivery. As a Vice President, you will advise business leaders and CEOs on all aspects of integrated communications. This role is part of a thriving team advising high-profile clients on how to create effective narratives, manage reputation, engage with key audiences, and tell proactive stories which support clients’ strategic objectives. **Responsibilities** As a Vice President within Teneo’s Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR, your role will include: - **Horizon scanning and strategic advisory:** Proactively monitor geopolitical, macroeconomic, regulatory, and market developments relevant to Hong Kong SAR and Greater China, providing actionable insight and senior‑level advisory to clients. - **Monitoring and reporting:** Track media, financial news, public markets commentary, social media, and stakeholder activity, with a particular focus on issues with potential reputational or investor impact. Lead the development of advisory notes, briefings, and research‑driven analysis, and build familiarity with the Hong Kong and regional media landscape. - **Reputation management and advisory** – supports the development of reputation management plans, advising clients on risks and issues affecting their organizations, and mitigation/ response strategies. - **Supporting communications strategy development and deployment** – support the development of research briefs and situation analyses to facilitate audience understanding and segmentation and the creation of the communications strategy. Excellent media relation skills and can provide input into formulating strategic objectives and approach, KPIs and risk management considerations. - **Account management** – oversee workstreams and deliverables on accounts, lead PMO activities, oversee and mentor Consultants, Associates, and Senior Associates. Support workflow management and quality assurance of deliverables. - **Financial communications and special situations**: Support senior team members in advising clients on financial communications mandates, including earnings support, M&A, restructuring, capital markets activity, and other special situations. Experience engaging with investor relations teams and market‑sensitive disclosure is highly valued. - **Thought leadership and content development**: Actively contribute to the development of client thought leadership, corporate profiling, and executive positioning content, with an emphasis on clarity, credibility, and relevance to financial and corporate stakeholders. - **Business development support**: Support senior team members with business development activity, including research, insight generation, and preparation of proposals and credentials. Begin building a personal network of professional relationships across the market. In addition, you will be expected to: - Build strong client and team relationships, fostering long-term partnerships and seeking organic growth opportunities through new business proposal development; - Create advisory notes for client leadership, addressing media narratives, financial markets insights, geopolitical risks, and reputational issues, while monitoring media coverage for clients and competitors; - Provide support and insight to your client teams, proactively highlighting opportunities, and potential areas of concern; - Build a strong network of effective relationships internally and externally; - Proactively seek formal and informal learning and development opportunities to support your professional growth and contribute to the sharing of learnings across the wider team **Responsibilities** - 6 – 8 years of relevant experience in corporate communications, financial communications, investor relations, media, or transaction advisory. - Demonstrated experience supporting financial communications, investor‑related messaging, earnings, M&A, capital markets, or special situations mandates. - Strong understanding of the Hong Kong SAR corporate and financial landscape, with experience engaging Hong Kong and regional media. - Excellent writing skills, with a proven ability to produce clear, accurate, and high‑quality content for senior corporate and investor audiences. - Experience advising or supporting clients through reputational issues or sensitive communications. - Strong organizational skills with the ability to execute multi-platform communications strategies - Demonstrable leadership in managing multiple stakeholders while maintaining good relationships - Fluency in English and Cantonese is essential, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages. - Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, public policy, business, economics, or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage. - Strong interest in global news, financial markets, and macroeconomic developments. **About Teneo** Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future. Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations. Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I. The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 42+ offices around the world. **Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion** Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.