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About the Role

This new role will play a pivotal role in shaping and amplifying Union Maritime's voice—internally and externally—ensuring that our narrative aligns with our ambitions. This role is central to building trust, engagement, and clarity across our global team and with our external stakeholders. The business is in a period of significant growth, placing greater importance on communications.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO and COO on strategic insight, drafting, and message discipline for communications, investor and lender updates, and external statements.
• Develop and maintain Union’s core narrative, financial story, and ESG profile, ensuring consistent deployment across all channels.
• Produce executive-grade presentations, speeches, written briefs, and talking points for senior management.
• Manage a global internal communications framework for a multi-office, multi-jurisdiction business.
• Lead the cadence of company-wide communications, including town halls, leadership updates, and change communications.
• Drive engagement, alignment, and clarity across the group.
• Own the external communications program, including media engagement, industry commentary, thought leadership, and reactive media management.
• Manage external agencies, PR partners, and freelance specialists.
• Build and maintain relationships with the maritime trade press.
• Manage issues and reputational risk.
• Own the Union Maritime brand as an expression of the business.
• Maintain consistency in tone of voice, visual identity, and messaging across all touchpoints.
• Direct external designers and creative agencies to a defined standard.
• Conceive and manage Union’s global events program—internal and external—to consistently high professional standards.
• Own the full event lifecycle: concept, budget, venue selection, supplier procurement and management, guest list curation and invitations, briefing materials, run-of-show, on-the-day execution, and post-event evaluation.
• Maintain a forward-looking global events calendar.
• Build and maintain a stable of trusted venues, suppliers, and partners in each Union hub.
• Map and manage Union’s stakeholder universe.
• Build durable relationships that strengthen Union’s standing.

Requirements

• Ten or more years in corporate affairs, strategic communications, or a comparable senior role.
• Significant experience at a top-tier corporate affairs / strategic communications consultancy.
• Direct experience advising and drafting for C-suite executives.
• Track record of conceiving and delivering events end to end, both intimate and large-scale.
• Experience in regulated or commercially complex industries (shipping, energy, financial services, infrastructure, professional services or similar) is an advantage but not essential.
• Treat Corporate Affairs as a business discipline that supports commercial and strategic objectives.
• Direct creative output, not personally produce it.
• Maintain top professional standards in everything produced; written, spoken, visual, operational.

Skills

• Commercial judgement
• Top-class writing and editing
• Event management capability
• Resilience

Location

• Global

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

About the Company

• Union Maritime is a leading global shipowner with an ever-increasing range of activity and relationships.
• The business is in a period of significant growth; fleet growth, digital transformation, and new businesses – including the launch of an investment fund.