Director, Consumer Industries Group
Listed on 2026-01-23
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Management
Corporate Strategy, Business Management, Business Continuity, Business Administration
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Opportunity:
Director, Consumer Industries Sector
Brunswick Group, a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues, is seeking a Director in New York with expertise in counseling consumer companies and business leaders on a wide range of high-stakes issues to join its Consumer Industries Sector (CIG) team. In addition to client-facing responsibilities, the CIG Director will play an important role in the marketing and internal leadership of the sector team, one of the largest at the firm.
Directors along with Partners serve as firm leaders and play a critical role in driving client work and the overall success of the firm.
Opportunity:
Director, Consumer Industries Sector
Brunswick Group, a strategic advisory firm focused on critical issues, is seeking a Director in New York with expertise in counseling consumer companies and business leaders on a wide range of high-stakes issues to join its Consumer Industries Sector (CIG) team. In addition to client-facing responsibilities, the CIG Director will play an important role in the marketing and internal leadership of the sector team, one of the largest at the firm.
Directors along with Partners serve as firm leaders and play a critical role in driving client work and the overall success of the firm.
Brunswick is a widely recognized industry leader. For nearly four decades, Brunswick has consistently ranked at the top of our industry’s league tables for M&A communications on a country, regional, and global basis. Over the last five years, the firm has advised on more than 1,000 M&A transactions totaling $2 trillion in value. In 2024, Brunswick ranked the #1 global M&A communications advisor, advising on 295 transactions valued at $583B.
We were also awarded the Band 1 ranking by Chambers and Partners for Crisis & Risk Management for four consecutive years – 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
About
The Role
Client Contribution & Handling
- Deliver strategic advice to consumer industries clients, drawing on specialist communications expertise and depth of professional advisory experience
- Demonstrate deep knowledge of the clients’ business and strategic communications issues spanning financial situations, crisis, litigation, and/or transformation
- Monitor level of account profitability and intervene as necessary
- Express a point of view in a thoughtful manner; analyze and distill complex information
- Write thoughtful, well-structured content; consider audience in style and tone of communications
- Exhibit and exercise sound judgement and discretion
- Question and challenge in a constructive way; present unpopular ideas to senior executives with poise and confidence
- Source new business opportunities along with Partner, apply knowledge and experience to lead well-run pitch teams and drive the pitch preparation
- Use deep knowledge of key sectors to promote new business approaches and ideas
- Assist in pitches across regions and sectors
- Identify new opportunities to deliver other Brunswick expertise to existing clients; actively pursue and secure extensions of client relationships
- Build and maintain strong external networks to deliver valuable insight to clients and the firm
- Actively and effectively manage account teams; drive the day-to-day
- Keep the Partner and other team members informed of account and project status
- Foster development of team members’ skills and client handling ability by identifying new challenges and encouraging team to stretch where appropriate
- 10-15+ years of experience in advising consumer industries clients, including c-suite stakeholders, around strategic communications for critical issues (i.e., Litigation, Financial Situations, Crisis)
- Extensive expertise and focus on understanding key stakeholders and issues within consumer industries sub-sectors such as retail, hospitality, CPG
- Experience managing teams of five or more people
- Proven ability to successfully interact with top-tier media in…
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