Director, People & Transformation - M&A and Restructuring Communications

Who We Are

FTI Consulting is the leading global expert firm for organizations facing crisis and transformation. We work with many of the world’s top multinational corporations, law firms, banks and private equity firms on their most important issues to deliver impact that makes a difference. From resolving disputes, navigating crises, managing risk and optimizing performance, our teams respond rapidly to dynamic and complex situations.

At FTI Consulting, you’ll work side-by side with leaders who have shaped history, helping solve the biggest challenges making headlines today. From day one, you’ll be an integral part of a focused team where you can make a real impact. You’ll be surrounded by an open, collaborative culture that embraces diversity, recognition, professional development and, most importantly, you.

Are you ready to make your impact?

About The Role

FTI Strategic Communications is currently looking for a Director in our People & Transformation practice who will serve as a strategic communications advisor and project manager for restructuring, merger integration, carve-out, and other transaction-related assignments. The successful Director must understand how to engage and mobilize internalize audiences to drive change and be able to coordinate with colleagues in other practice areas to develop and implement communication and change management strategies targeted to employees, media, investors, customers, suppliers and other third parties. Candidates must have a working knowledge of Chapter 11 restructuring and/or M&A transactions as well as strong writing and presentation skills and a team player mentality

A successful Director is confident in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment, where situations may shift quickly and require an immediate response. A successful Director must be able to lead client accounts with autonomy, while managing up and down to ensure projects remain on schedule and on budget, anticipate and prepare for potential challenges, and create new formats and strategies, where necessary, to meet a client’s objectives.

The Director will also have experience managing and mentoring junior talent – both in formal and informal capacities – which requires an ability to provide meaningful feedback and coaching. A Director will also positively contribute to team culture and be a listening ear, a role model, and an advocate for early career professionals.

Additionally, a successful Director understands and lives by FTI’s values, Code of Ethics and the Strategic Communications Rules of Practice. Additional information can be accessed here. FTI professionals must act with the highest level of integrity at all times and hold our clients accountable for the same.

Some travel may be required ─ including the possibility of being a key contributor to onsite client engagements ─ but this is NOT a traditional on-the-road consulting role. Travel is more the exception than the norm. 

While we strive to support one another and help all team members achieve a healthy work-life balance, evening and weekend work is a requirement of this role and may not always be predictable.

What You’ll Do

The Director will interact directly with clients on a day-to-day basis and serve in a variety of roles from strategist to materials developer, and counselor to implementer. Our team prides itself on maintaining an inclusive spirit in which all team members are encouraged to offer ideas and stretch their abilities on an ongoing basis, and we all roll up our sleeves to support our clients and each other with tasks large and small. As a result, there is no such thing as a “typical day” for our team members, but you can expect your work will include the following:     

Client Delivery

• Serve as a day-to-day client contact on accounts, representing the team in client meetings, calls, and while working at client sites

• Coordinate communications and change management strategies that leverage a wide variety of tactics to reach stakeholders with timely and consistent information; be able to organize – and often visualize – strategies in a variety of formats to ensure understanding of responsibilities and timelines

• Write clearly and concisely, adapting often-complex financial and legal content for employees, customers, suppliers, media, investors, regulators, and other third parties; demonstrate a working understanding of what various stakeholders most need to hear and how to reach them effectively

• Create client-ready deliverables, including supervising the work of more junior colleagues in a timely and efficient manner, managing the overall quality of work, and