Manager, Corporate Affairs

Union Maritime is a leading global shipowner with an ever-increasing range of activity and relationships, which results in a growing need for strategic, high-impact communication. This new role will play a pivotal role in shaping and amplifying our 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; fleet growth, digital transformation, and new businesses – including the launch of an investment fund – all of which places greater importance on communications; within the group, as well as with regulators, financiers, charterers, partners and the wider industry. Corporate Affairs sits at the centre of how Union positions itself, and protects its reputation through that growth. 

Role summary 

The Corporate Affairs Manager is a senior, commercially-oriented hire. We seek someone who treats Corporate Affairs as a business discipline that supports commercial and strategic objectives, rather than as a creative or marketing function. 

The role spans executive communications, internal communications, external communications and media, brand and positioning, the conception and delivery of Union’s global events programme, and stakeholder engagement. The remit is expected to grow over time to include ESG and sustainability communications, government and regulatory engagement, and Tetra Foundation outreach. 

Profile

We seek someone from a top-tier corporate affairs / strategic communications consultancy or an in-house equivalent at a serious commercial business (financial services, energy, infrastructure, professional services, large industrials). The core purpose is corporate, not creative. The successful candidate will direct creative output, not personally produce it. 

And the we seek top professional standards in everything produced; written, spoken, visual, operational.