- Competitive salary and compensation structure
- Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
- Frequent firm-wide social events and activities
- Excellent environment for learning and growth
- Further benefits, depending on location
Consultant
Dublin
Full-time
Permanent employee
What’s in it for me?
About the Role
Penta is seeking a Consultant to join our Dublin team in this position you will play a role in delivering strategic communications, media, political and public affairs programmes across a range of client accounts. The role involves providing strategic advice and professional support to clients, leading stakeholder engagement and campaign delivery, managing account teams, and contributing to business development. This is a client-facing role within a fast-paced consultancy environment.
Principal Responsibilities:
Principal Responsibilities:
- Play a senior role on a number of accounts and projects.
- Demonstrate leadership skills while managing account teams to deliver on goals, objectives and needs of clients.
- Monitor and anticipate revenues and profitability of client accounts in support of the Managing Director.
- Maintain and share a strong understanding of clients’ core sectors in order to provide strategic counsel on strategies, messaging and tactics, and anticipate issues that could arise.
- Contribute to and cultivate business development opportunities.
- Assist in targeted marketing of the company to corporate audiences.
- Ensure effective and efficient internal communications, keeping senior team members abreast of ongoing projects, issues, or risks.
- Generate and develop regular ideas for clients. Ensure all activities meet / exceed client expectations.
- Ensure regular (internal and external) planning meetings take place with all clients and foster close working relationships.
- Ensure team members maintain company standards for planning, reporting and quality of service. Manage team members, ensuring daily and weekly targets are met.
- Manage collaborative projects across the team displaying excellent written and oral communication; comprehensive understanding of data analysis; deep knowledge of strategic communications market as well as political and policymaking environment in Ireland.
- Assist in the development and mentoring of junior staff members.
- Be a proactive member of the Penta team and be part of creating a happy and supportive working environment for team members.
- Perform any other duties that are assigned to you by your manager and for which you have been provided with reasonable knowledge and training in respect of such responsibilities.
About You
- Be highly motivated, dynamic, and driven to become a key player in our integrated, international service offering with a focus on Ireland and the EU.
- Have 3-5 years of experience in public affairs and communications, specifically focused on Ireland and EU affairs.
- Have a strong understanding of the policy framework and how the Irish government and EU institutions operate, as well as key legislative and regulatory processes.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage a team of consultants, working to meet tight deadlines and exceed high client expectations.
- Possess a strategic and curious mindset, always looking ahead and identifying future opportunities.
- Be committed to the highest professional standards, consistently going above and beyond client expectations.
- Show flexibility and collaborative working skills, effectively managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment, with a keen attention to detail.
- Possess first-rate analytical and communication skills, ensuring impactful and insightful engagement with clients and stakeholders across Ireland and the EU.
About us
Penta Group is a global company providing data-driven solutions to help clients achieve their objectives in an increasingly complex stakeholder environment. We provide cutting-edge intelligence products to help clients understand what their stakeholders think, see, and hear, and then leverage that intelligence to develop and execute effective, measurable strategies.
Our global team brings decades of experience in business, government, communications, research, data science, and media. Our clients include companies across a variety of industries, including technology, financial services, energy, healthcare, and more. Penta has offices in New York, London, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Dublin, London, Brussels, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Our global team brings decades of experience in business, government, communications, research, data science, and media. Our clients include companies across a variety of industries, including technology, financial services, energy, healthcare, and more. Penta has offices in New York, London, Washington, DC, San Francisco, Dublin, London, Brussels, Singapore, and Hong Kong.