Public Affairs Advisor, Strategy & Communications – (Contract Position)
Hong Kong SAR

The Opportunity

Teneo is seeking a fixed-term Public Affairs advisor to join our Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR.

This role focuses on advising select clients on public affairs, policy, regulatory engagement, and stakeholder strategy, particularly where business objectives intersect with government policy, regulatory change, and broader geopolitical dynamics. Hong Kong SAR is a highly visible, fast‑moving environment, requiring strong judgement, political and regulatory literacy, and the ability to advise senior leaders through complex and sensitive situations.

The role will suit candidates with proven experience advising on the Greater China public affairs landscape, corporate affairs, policy advisory, or closely related fields, whether from consultancy, in‑house, or adjacent professional services environments.

Responsibilities

Public affairs and policy advisory 
•    Advise clients on public affairs, regulatory, and policy‑related issues relevant to Hong Kong SAR and the wider Asia‑Pacific region.
•    Support clients in anticipating and responding to political, regulatory, and stakeholder developments that may impact business operations or reputation.
•    Contribute to stakeholder mapping, policy analysis, and engagement strategies aligned to client objectives.

Stakeholder, issues strategy and execution 
•    Support the development of integrated stakeholder engagement strategies across government, regulators, industry bodies, and other relevant audiences.
•    Advise on issues preparedness and response, ensuring clients are positioned credibly and constructively in sensitive or high‑risk situations.
•    Support the development of public affairs strategies, including research, policy analysis, and scenario planning.
•    Translate complex policy and regulatory developments into clear, actionable advice for senior client leadership.

Narrative
•    Develop narratives and messaging that support public affairs objectives, including briefing materials, position papers, executive talking points, and thought leadership.
•    Work with communications specialists to ensure alignment between public affairs strategy and broader reputation management efforts.

In addition, you will be expected to:
•    Work as a core member of integrated client teams, supporting public affairs and policy advisory engagements across Hong Kong SAR and the region.
•    Help ensure consistently high standards of delivery by supporting project coordination, research, and quality assurance.
•    Contribute ideas and analysis that inform client strategies, drawing on policy, regulatory, and stakeholder insights.
•    Engage actively with the wider Teneo team to build skills, share knowledge, and support the firm’s public affairs work across Asia Pacific.

Requirements
•    Bachelor’s degree or higher in public policy, political science, international relations, law, economics, communications, or a related field.
•    Approximately 5–7 years’ experience in public affairs, policy advisory, corporate affairs, or related roles, either in consultancy or in‑house.
•    Strong understanding of Hong Kong SAR's political, regulatory, and stakeholder environment, with awareness of regional and global dynamics.
•    Experience advising clients or internal stakeholders on policy, regulatory, or government‑related issues.
•    Ability to synthesise complex political or regulatory developments into clear, practical advice.
•    Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing executive‑level briefing materials.
•    Strong project management and organisational skills.
•    Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
•    Cantonese language capability is essential. 

About Teneo
Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 42+ offices around the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion
Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.

Senior Associate, Strategy & Communications
Hong Kong SAR

The Opportunity
As Teneo continues to grow its presence across the Greater Bay area, we are seeking a Senior Associate to join their Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR.
This is an excellent opportunity for a driven, commercially minded communications professional to build a long‑term career within a global advisory firm, working at the intersection of corporate reputation, financial communications, and complex stakeholder environments.
Based in Hong Kong SAR, this role will support clients across Greater China and the wider Asia Pacific region, with a strong emphasis on integrated corporate communications, financial communications, and investor‑facing mandates. The successful candidate will bring experience advising senior leaders on market‑sensitive issues, financial narratives, and reputational risk.
A Senior Associate at Teneo is responsible for delivering consistently high‑quality client work and plays a pivotal role in managing day‑to‑day account activity. You will be expected to anticipate client needs, identify emerging risks and opportunities, and ensure that work is delivered to agreed standards and timelines. You will also contribute to the development of junior team members through on‑the‑job coaching and active participation in a collaborative, high‑performance team environment.

Responsibilities

As a Senior Associate within Teneo’s Strategy and Communications team in Hong Kong SAR, your role will include:

• Horizon scanning and strategic advisory: Proactively monitor geopolitical, macroeconomic, regulatory, and market developments relevant to Hong Kong SAR and Greater China, providing actionable insight and senior‑level advisory to clients.
• Monitoring and reporting: Track media, financial news, public markets commentary, social media, and stakeholder activity, with a particular focus on issues with potential reputational or investor impact. Contribute to the development of advisory notes, briefings, and research‑driven analysis, and build familiarity with the Hong Kong and regional media landscape.
• Corporate communications: Support senior‑level corporate communications advisory, helping clients articulate and protect their corporate narrative, manage complex stakeholder environments, and respond effectively to reputational risk and emerging issues. This includes development of messaging, executive materials, content and campaign support across traditional, digital, and investor‑facing channels, grounded in rigorous research and insight.
• Financial communications and special situations: Support senior team members in advising clients on financial communications mandates, including earnings support, M&A, restructuring, capital markets activity, and other special situations. Experience engaging with investor relations teams and market‑sensitive disclosure is highly valued.
• Account and client management: Support the effective delivery of client accounts, maintaining strong working relationships with key client stakeholders. Monitor progress against objectives, flag emerging issues, and contribute to clear, structured client communications.
• Thought leadership and content development: Contribute to the development of client thought leadership, corporate profiling, and executive positioning content, with an emphasis on clarity, credibility, and relevance to financial and corporate stakeholders.
• Business development support: Support senior team members with business development activity, including research, insight generation, and preparation of proposals and credentials. Begin building a personal network of professional relationships across the market.

In addition, you will be expected to:

• Build strong, trusted relationships with clients and colleagues;
• Provide thoughtful input and challenge within client teams, proactively highlighting opportunities and potential risks;
• Develop a strong internal and external network across corporate, financial, and media stakeholders;
• Actively pursue learning and development opportunities, and contribute to knowledge‑sharing across the broader Strategy and Communications team.

Requirements

• 4 - 6 years of relevant experience in corporate communications, financial communications, investor relations, media, or transaction advisory.
• Demonstrated experience supporting financial communications, investor‑related messaging, earnings, M&A, capital markets, or special situations mandates.
• Strong understanding of the Hong Kong SAR corporate and financial landscape, with experience engaging Hong Kong and regional media.
• Excellent writing skills, with a proven ability to produce clear, accurate, and high‑quality content for senior corporate and investor audiences.
• Experience advising or supporting clients through reputational issues or sensitive communications.
• Fluency in English and Cantonese is essential, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.
• Bachelor’s degree in journalism, communications, public policy, business, economics, or a related discipline; a postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
• Strong interest in global news, financial markets, and macroeconomic developments.

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 42+ offices around the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.

As the External Affairs Manager for Riot Games China, you will report to the Head of Public Affairs, China. You will help the company stay on top of regulatory developments across China’s gaming and internet industries, drive the maintenance and application of relevant licenses, and build effective working relationships with external bodies and industry associations. By translating complex policy environments into clear, actionable business recommendations, you will support the company in making decisions that are good for the business and help Riot Games operate and grow with confidence in the Chinese market.

Responsibilities:

•   Track, analyze, and synthesize policy developments across China’s gaming and internet sectors; provide timely briefings and actionable recommendations within a compliance framework to support sound business decision-making
•   Drive license applications including but not limited to game licenses and other content approvals; coordinate across local teams and global teams to keep submissions accurate and on schedule
•   Build and maintain productive working relationships with external bodies and industry associations; know the processes, navigate the right channels, and keep communication lines open
•   Respond quickly when regulatory or external affairs issues arise; coordinate resources to resolve matters efficiently within the bounds of applicable policy and regulation
•   Help establish and maintain external affairs communication channels and platforms to keep day-to-day operations running smoothly
•   Support teams on content risk assessment, classification, and compliance-related decisions
•   Work closely with internal teams to support public affairs and related communications work

Required Qualifications:

•   5+ years of experience in public affairs, external affairs, or a related field; gaming or internet industry background preferred
•   Strong understanding of China’s gaming and internet industries, with the ability to apply that knowledge to make sound judgments and decisions on the job
•   Hands-on experience with game license applications and content publishing qualification processes
•   Strong crisis response instincts — calm under pressure, able to act decisively with incomplete information
•   Strong cross-functional coordination skills; able to bring together internal teams and partner resources to get things over the line
•   Excellent written and spoken Chinese; working proficiency in English, with fluency a plus

Desired Qualifications:

•   Experience at a multinational company, or a background in law relevant to regulatory affairs
•   Direct experience in a public affairs role at a leading gaming company or internet platform
•   Familiarity with esports, live events, or entertainment content regulatory frameworks

For this role, you'll find success through craft expertise, a collaborative spirit, and decision-making that prioritizes the delight of players. We will be looking at your past studies, experience, and your personal relationship with games. If you embody player empathy and care about players' experiences, this could be your role!

Opportunity

You’ll be joining a team that thrives on complex questions—how businesses should respond to new policy directions, navigate global tensions, or engage meaningfully with government and policy audiences. Our clients are often at critical junctures, and we help them move forward with confidence.

We’re looking for someone who is genuinely curious about how politics and policy shape business. You may come from government, public affairs, corporate strategy, journalism, or policy analysis—but wherever you’ve come from, you’re intellectually curious, commercially sharp, and passionate about China's evolving policy landscape.

You may already have some experience engaging with government stakeholders and policy influencers—or are looking to build that experience. What matters most is your ability to get into the details of policy and economic realities while also stepping back to see patterns and implications. You understand that real insight comes from both rigorous analysis and conversations on the ground—with officials, advisors, researchers, and others who help connect the dots. You’re motivated to build the networks and insight that make your advice sharper, your writing clearer, and our counsel to clients more strategic.

You’re a strong writer who brings structure to ambiguity. You enjoy digging into regulations, into economic nuance, drafting crisp analysis, and making complex developments accessible and actionable for business audiences.

You’re also a team player—collaborative, curious, and resilient under pressure. You’ll play a key role supporting client work—helping shape recommendations, structure analysis, and contribute to project delivery. You’ll be building your voice as a strategic advisor, developing trusted relationships with clients, and expanding your perspective across sectors and policy domains.

About the role

We value people who:

• Are deeply interested in Chinese politics, policymaking, and public affairs—and want to dig into the issues behind the headlines.
• Have started to build a network within the policy community and bring strong people skills to nurture and grow those relationships over time.
• Know how to identify and map critical stakeholders inside and outside government.
• Write with clarity, precision, and authority across formats—from policy analysis to strategic recommendations.
• Understand how to interpret China's political signals for a global audience and how to communicate back with cultural fluency.
• Collaborate generously and help raise the quality of thinking across a team.
• Take pride in producing high-quality work, with a structured, thoughtful approach to complexity.

The Role of an Account Director at Brunswick

Account Directors are trusted contributors to client work. You’ll help deliver insight, shape advice, and ensure the quality of what we share with clients. You’ll often lead parts of an account and collaborate with colleagues across sectors and regions.

You’ll spend time unpacking political and regulatory developments, be part of a team authoring analysis on market developments, contributing to strategy development, and supporting stakeholder engagement programs that build long-term, trusted relationships with government and policy audiences.

You’ll help guide junior colleagues, contribute to internal initiatives, and participate actively in new business development. You’ll also have opportunities to deepen your expertise in specific sectors, broaden your knowledge across geographies, and play a role in growing Brunswick’s global public affairs and geopolitical advisory work.

This is a platform to sharpen your strategic thinking, grow your public affairs expertise, and build trusted client relationships on high-stakes issues. It’s a great role for someone growing into their own voice as a public affairs advisor—someone who is analytically sharp, politically literate, commercially aware, and committed to helping clients succeed through complexity.

What We’re Looking For

• Typically, four-to-six years of experience in public and regulatory affairs, policy analysis, strategic communications, government, journalism, or related sectors.
• Strong knowledge of China's political and policymaking environment.
• Have started to build a network within the Chinese government and policy community-and bring strong people skills to nurture and grow those relationships.
• Exceptional writing and communication skills in both English and Chinese.
• Ability to translate complex policy issues into strategic recommendations.
• Collaborative mindset and calmness under pressure.
• A proactive, thoughtful, and detail-oriented approach to your work.
• A network across government, policy communities, business, media, or academia that enriches insight and execution (preferred).

Our Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including:

• Annual Discretionary Bonus: Based on company and individual performance.
• Generous Leave: 25 days’ annual leave plus an additional day for your birthday.
• Brunswick Bites: Team Lunch every Monday.
• Family Leave Policies: Maternity, Paternity, Shared Parental, and Adoption leave.
• Employee Assistance Programme: Support for your wellbeing.
• Headspace Membership: Access to mindfulness and meditation resources.
• Complimentary Refreshments: Artisan coffee, tea, and snacks in our pantries.
• Training Sessions: Lunch & Learn opportunities.
• Social Activities: Regular social, cultural, and charitable events.

Intern, Strategy and Communications
Shanghai/Beijing

The Opportunity

As Teneo continues to grow its operations in Asia-Pacific, we are looking for a high calibre candidate to join our dynamic and professional Strategy and Communications team as an Intern based in the firm's Shanghai or Beijing office.

As an Intern, you will gain insight into our integrated advisory offering by supporting the wider team to produce high quality research and provide insight to our diverse set of clients. You will have the opportunity to support a wide range of activity including narrative development, financial calendar communications, executive profiling, restructurings and M&A transactions, crisis management, media relations and ESG, government relations, stewardship and governance issues.

This is a unique opportunity for a driven, self-motivated candidate to develop a successful career in a dynamic, growing international advisory company.

Job description:

• Research and analysis – conduct desktop research and analysis on market catalyst matters, geopolitical and/ or business trends. Prepare reports presenting findings and insights to support client advisory.
• Media monitoring – support the team in monitoring news coverage related to client activities and relevant fields of interest.
• Media landscape scanning – stay current with trends, news, and developments in the media landscape. Develop knowledge of key media outlets and influential journalists to support client account work.
• Content development – Contribute to creating compelling content for various communications channels, including traditional media, digital platforms, and social media. Work with colleagues to develop client-ready documents such as presentations and reports.
• Account support – support the wider account team in managing client relationships. This includes assisting during client meetings, developing and maintaining communication materials, taking notes, updating project trackers, and ensuring all client needs are met in a timely manner.
• Financial communications & investor relations - conduct research, develop messaging, and create content including copywriting. Support the team in developing client-ready documents such as presentations, reports, earnings releases, and Q&As.

Basic Qualifications

• Pursuing a bachelor's or postgraduate degree, ideally in journalism and communications, international relations, public policy, finance, or economics
• Demonstrates strong written and verbal communication skills
• Native fluency in Chinese (Mandarin and/or Cantonese) as well as excellent proficiency in English is essential for this role. 
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, including proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel

Preferred Qualifications

• Critical thinkers who are eager to learn, detail-oriented, and possess strong research, writing, and analytical skills
• Familiarity with social media platform management (WeChat, LinkedIn, X, etc.) an added advantage
• International experience (study and/or work) a plus
• Basic financial literacy and understanding of capital markets and trends, with a strong appetite for geopolitics and macroeconomic/finance events
• Candidate needs to be confident, mature, and outgoing. An entrepreneurial spirit, can-do attitude, and being a team player are essential
• Must display a strong work ethic, high standards, and commitment to the role

About Teneo

Teneo is the global CEO advisory firm. We partner with our clients globally to do great things for a better future.

Drawing upon our global team and expansive network of senior advisors, we provide advisory services across our five business segments on a stand-alone or fully integrated basis to help our clients solve complex business challenges. Our clients include a significant number of the Fortune 100 and FTSE 100, as well as other corporations, financial institutions and organizations.

Our full range of advisory services includes strategic communications, investor relations, financial transactions and restructuring, management consulting, physical and cyber risk, organisational design, board and executive search, geopolitics and government affairs, corporate governance, ESG and DE&I.

The firm has more than 1,800 employees located in 40+ offices around the world.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

Teneo is an equal opportunity employer and promotes a diverse and inclusive workplace. Teneo considers all applicants without regard to race, colour, religion, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, disability, gender identity, genetic information, or sexual orientation or any other status protected by applicable law.