Associate, Advisory
Based in Hong Kong or Singapore
Ashbury Communications, an award-winning strategic communications consultancy, is looking for an outstanding individual who has a passion for telling compelling stories to join our team as an Associate, Advisory.
Key responsibilities
In this role, the candidate will:
- Support our growing portfolio of clients across Asia Pacific and the Middle East by building and protecting their reputations.
- With the guidance from the more senior members of the team, take ownership of client relationships.
- Drive the end-to-end process of specific deliverables in support of clients’
communications strategy. - Support key events across Ashbury’s clients on media relations, social media, panel briefing, event and senior stakeholder management.
- Conduct research and analysis on industry trends and media landscapes to support client strategies.
- Monitor news and social media on coverage of clients to track reputation, with the use of tools such as Signal and InferenceCloud.
- Draft communications materials for clients, such as press releases, media pitches, reports and presentations.
- Assist in, and gradually take a more proactive role in, driving media outreach, journalist engagement and maintaining press relationships.
- Support media training projects for Ashbury’s clients as and when necessary.
- Drive the end-to-end process of the production of Ashbury’s weekly newsletter, “Trending”, in collaboration with the wider Ashbury team.
- Work closely with the broader Ashbury team to identify opportunities to enhance advisory services for clients, and bring fresh ideas and engage in constructive debate with the team.
- Look out for new business opportunities with existing clients.
- Help identify potential new clients and contribute to new business ideas
- Contribute to new business pitches.
- Collaborate with the rest of the Advisory team and the Content team based in Hong Kong, Singapore, the UAE and the UK.
Key competencies
We’re looking for someone who embodies our values of curiosity, boldness and accountability – and who has a clear passion for doing great work with great clients. To succeed in this role, the candidate will have:
- At least two years of communications experience; experience in financial
communications preferred. - International exposure and cross-border business acumen.
- Keen interest in current affairs and passion for climate and sustainability issues.
- Curiosity in the business of our clients.
- Outstanding client service delivery and key account management skills.
- Outstanding project management skills.
- The confidence to advance new ideas and enter into constructive debate with the team.
- An entrepreneurial and self-starting mentality.
- High attention to detail and passion for high quality.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, international environment.
- Excellent analytical, research and storytelling skills.
- Fluent written and spoken English, with Chinese or other Asian languages considered an advantage.
Background of candidates
We welcome candidates with:
- Background in in-house financial communications, agency or financial media.
- University or post-graduate qualification from any discipline of studies from a reputable university.
- The right to work in Hong Kong or Singapore preferred.
