Head of Public Affairs Spain
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- Work at the intersection of trade infrastructure and geopolitics supporting strategically important markets.
- Collaborate with local regional and global leaders across Public Affairs operations legal communications and employee relations.
- Apply digital and AI-enabled intelligence tools responsibly to improve policy analysis stakeholder mapping and risk identification.
- Develop your expertise through international collaboration and exposure to complex investment regulatory and operational priorities.
- Develop and execute public affairs and advocacy strategies supporting investments port concessions infrastructure priorities and commercial growth.
- Monitor political regulatory labour and geopolitical developments translating them into actionable business insights and issue-management plans.
- Build trusted relationships with national regional and local governments port authorities regulators industry associations and community stakeholders.
- Advise senior leadership on stakeholder dynamics policy risks commercial opportunities and emerging issues affecting the licence to operate.
- Shape positioning on ports as critical infrastructure including competitiveness automation resilience and decarbonisation.
- Coordinate engagement across Spain and neighbouring priority markets working closely with Maersk APM Terminals and regional Public Affairs teams.
- Support crisis management employee relations community engagement and operational resilience through proactive stakeholder alignment.
- Continuous improvement mindset: we are looking for someone who brings a thoughtful improvement mindsetcurious about how work gets done and motivated to make meaningful sustainable improvements over time.
- Leadership expectation: We are looking for people who consistently put customers first lead by example with respect for people deliver results with integrity and drive continuous improvement by solving problems at the root developing people and raising standards every day.
- Bring 1015 years of experience in public affairs government relations or public policy within a multinational company consultancy or public institution.
- Demonstrate strong knowledge of Spains national and regional political regulatory labour and stakeholder environment.
- Show proven expertise in advocacy policy analysis regulatory strategy and influencing decision-making without formal authority.
- Hold a masters degree in public policy economics political science or a related field.
- Communicate fluently in English and Spanish. Catalan is strongly preferred; Portuguese French or Arabic would be an advantage.
Maersk is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace and we embrace different styles of thinking. Maersk is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants without regard to race colour gender sex age religion creed national origin ancestry citizenship marital status sexual orientation physical or mental disability medical condition pregnancy or parental leave veteran status gender identity genetic information or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with all legal requirements.
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About Company
Maersk Line is a Danish international container shipping company and the largest operating subsidiary of the Maersk Group, a Danish business conglomerate. It is the world's largest container shipping company by both fleet size and cargo capacity, serving 374 offices in 116 countries
