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Communications Manager – Marine Services & Logistics
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
On-site
Manager or above
5 days ago
AED 395,000 – AED 400,000 / year
5 days ago
Key Responsibilities:
- Implement and deliver communications strategies reflecting global and regional business objectives and growth priorities, tailored to diverse customers, employees, and stakeholders.
- Act as a strategic communications advisor to Marine Services business stakeholders.
- Drive communications activities ensuring business impact across targeted customer segments.
- Oversee inputs from Group Communications Centers of Excellence and external agencies, delivering measurable, cost-effective strategy execution.
- Manage and activate content calendars for internal/external websites, social media, and quarterly newsletters.
- Ensure timely and consistent delivery of communication reports.
- Maintain alignment of all business communications activities with global brand purpose and 'One DP World' positioning.
- Deliver world-class B2B communications to support both long-term company positioning and immediate Marine Services business goals.
- Lead scheduled, regular meetings with stakeholders and collaborators to ensure alignment and visibility of business developments.
- Develop deep sector knowledge, audience insight, and comprehensive understanding of services and products.
- Manage external agency and vendor teams, driving excellence in quality and output.
- Develop strategic narratives and key messages, producing high-quality, accurate content.
- Support maritime industry event participation, ensuring coherence with the global events plan.
- Uphold clear project management processes, guaranteeing high standards across all outputs.
- Maintain an actionable dashboard of metrics, monitoring and reporting delivery against well-defined objectives and KPIs.
- Collaborate effectively with Group Communications Centers of Excellence and regional communications teams to optimize channel strategy, reach, and impact.
- Act as an ambassador for DP World, consistently promoting positive behaviors and adherence to the company's principles, values, and code of conduct.
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- Approximately 7-9 years of relevant communications, marketing, or related experience, specifically within the Marine/Shipping sector.
- Demonstrated expertise in providing strategic and tactical communications advice to diverse stakeholders.
- Proven track record leading stakeholder meetings ensuring business alignment and visibility.
- Deep sector knowledge, audience insight, and comprehensive understanding of marine services and products.
- Experience in managing external agency and vendor teams.
- Skilled in developing narratives and key messages aligned with strategic objectives.
- Experience supporting maritime industry event participation, ensuring strategic cohesion with global events.
- Ability to uphold clear project management standards, delivering consistently high-quality outputs.
- Experience maintaining dashboards that track delivery against defined objectives and KPIs.
- Collaborative teamwork with Communications centers of Excellence and regional communications experts to drive effective channel strategy and maximize reach.
- Experience managing strategic integrated communication programs, adhering to timelines and budgets.
- Exceptional organizational and project management skills.
- Maritime sector experience highly valued.
- Strong writing, editing, and proofreading capabilities.
- Confident communicator and presenter with ability to influence and convince.
- Knowledge of digital and social media trends.
- Solid understanding of current affairs, global economics, and geopolitical context.
- Self-motivated leader with a professional and proactive approach.
- Ability to prioritize multiple projects and achieve results in a dynamic business environment.
- Internal: Director, Marine Services Communications, SVP Business Communications, Communications, PR, Digital, Events, Brand Teams, Regional Communications Teams, Marine Services Leadership.
- External: External Agencies, Media Partners, Publishers.
- About 7-9 years communications, marketing or related experience, in the Marine/Shipping Sector.
- Provide strategic and tactical communications advice to stakeholders.
- Lead scheduled, regular meetings with stakeholders and collaborators to ensure alignment and visibility of developments in the business.
- Develop deep sector knowledge, audience insight, and understanding of services and products.
- Manage external agency and vendor teams.
- Develop narrative and key messages relating to the strategy, driving the creation of high-quality, accurate content.
- Support maritime industry event participation and ensure its cohesion with the global events plan.
- Uphold clear project management processes and ensure a high quality of outputs.
- Maintain an actionable dashboard of metrics; monitor and report delivery against well-defined objectives and KPIs.
- Collaborate effectively with Group Communications centers of Excellence to ensure effective channel strategy, and with regional communications teams to drive reach and impact.
Communications Manager – Marine Services & Logistics · Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited