Burson
Senior Consultant, Corporate Affairs
Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
Project ManagementStrategic CommunicationsBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- Burson Canada is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our Corporate Affairs team in Toronto.
- The ideal candidate is a strong strategic thinker with demonstrated experience counseling clients, leading integrated campaigns, and managing complex, multi-stakeholder projects.
- You bring excellent judgment, a proactive mindset, and the ability to translate business needs into compelling, high-impact communications strategies.
Responsibilities
- Act as a day-to-day strategic partner to clients, providing thoughtful counsel on corporate reputation, issues, stakeholder communications, and media strategy.
- Lead the development and execution of integrated communications programs aligned with client business goals and reputation priorities.
- Lead earned media strategy, including narrative development, story opportunities, media outreach, and interview facilitation.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key reporters across business, corporate, financial, and sector-specific media.
- Manage complex workstreams, ensuring high-quality deliverables, strong integration across teams, and seamless project execution.
- Develop workback schedules, oversee timelines and budgets, and ensure clarity across internal and client teams.
- Without that we can't do the essential work of inspiring bold ideas, fostering constructive dialogue, cultivating meaningful experiences, and driving innovation and creativity for our partners.
- Your unique point of view-your talent-is what makes you a #BursonPerson, and it's how we deliver exceptional results for our clients, together.
Requirements
- Post-secondary degree or post-graduate certificate in communications, public relations, journalism, political science, business, or related field-or equivalent experience.
- 5 to 7+ years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, issues management, public affairs, or a related advisory function.
- Strong experience with media relations, including pitching business, corporate, financial, and trade media.
Benefits
- Our vision is for Burson to be the leading 'academy company' for creative communications professionals and emerging leaders.
Company info
- Burson, part of WPP, is the global communications leader built to create value for clients through reputation. With highly specialized teams, industry-leading technologies and breakthrough creative, we help brands and businesses redefine reputation as a competitive advantage so they can lead today and into the future. When you work at Burson, you are part of a global community of lifelong learners who thrive at the edge of innovation.
- WPP (LSE/NYSE: WPP) is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands. We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth. For more information, visit WPP.com
- For more information visit bursonglobal.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram.
- More about the role:
- Burson, part of WPP, is the global communications leader built to create value for clients through reputation.
- With highly specialized teams, industry-leading technologies and breakthrough creative, we help brands and businesses redefine reputation as a competitive advantage so they can lead today and into the future.
- When you work at Burson, you are part of a global community of lifelong learners who thrive at the edge of innovation.
- WPP (LSE/NYSE: WPP) is the trusted growth partner for the world's leading brands.
- We unite cutting-edge media intelligence and data solutions, world-class creativity, next-generation production, transformative enterprise solutions and expert strategic counsel in a single company - powered by exceptional talent and our agentic marketing platform, WPP Open, to help our clients navigate change, capture opportunity and deliver transformational growth.
- For more information, visit WPP.com
- This is a replacement hire and an exciting opportunity to play a key role in developing and delivering strategic communications programs for leading organizations across corporate, financial, professional services, industrial, and technology sectors.
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