Director - Partnerships & Events - APAC

Job Summary

Are you ready to drive transformative partnerships and make a significant impact in APAC Join DP World as the Director of Partnerships & Events (DPE), where you'll lead our APAC strategy, fostering high-impact relationships across B2B, sports, and government sectors. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape DP World's brand through sports marketing, event management, content creation, and strategic messaging, amplifying our presence across digital, social, and experiential channels. We seek a dynamic communications leader with a passion for connection, a knack for enhancing brand visibility, and exceptional stakeholder management abilities. This role is based in Singapore and reports directly to the Vice President of Communications, APAC.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead strategic management of DP World's rights and benefits within current partnerships, ensuring we extract maximum value and visibility in each engagement.
• Understand DP World's objectives and identify high-impact opportunities with event organizers and rights holders throughout the APAC region.
• Work closely with globally recognized communications, sports, and experiential agencies to deliver seamless, integrated engagement across all events and partnerships.
• Coordinate logistics and communications for executive spokespersons, ensuring all speaking engagements reflect DP World's brand and values.
• Prepare concise briefing papers and organize subject-matter meetings to equip senior leaders with insights and data for successful engagement.
• Lead the creation of impactful messaging, coordinating photographers, videographers, and other creatives to bring our brand to life at every opportunity.
• Develop insightful wrap-up reports, ensuring key teams have the necessary information for media, internal communications, and digital channels.
• Align all outputs with DP World's global brand strategy, covering partnerships in sport, B2B, experiential, and merchandising.
• Manage a robust merchandise program to build and maintain a strong brand presence across the region.
• Foster close, effective communication with global C-suite executives, regional communications teams, and external partners including rights holders, conference organizers, and agencies.

Qualifications, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor's Degree with 15+ years of experience in managing rights and benefits, developing impactful communication and activation plans.
• A process-driven mindset and a proven track record in project management, with a proactive and positive approach.
• A self-starter who excels under pressure, adept at prioritizing multiple projects, taking initiative, and achieving results in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills, comfortable working with diverse cultures and across all levels, including senior leadership.
• Strong budget management abilities and experience working with multiple agencies.
• An outstanding communicator (both written and spoken English), with an integrated view on storytelling and a keen understanding of leveraging content across paid, owned, and earned channels.
• Fast, efficient, and detail-oriented, with a commitment to quality and the ability to meet tight deadlines.
• A hands-on approach, willing to tackle tasks of any size to ensure success.
• Flexibility in working hours and travel to accommodate the role's demands.
• Industry knowledge is a plus, but not essential.

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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

DP World is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO). We strongly believe that employing a diverse workforce is central to our success and we make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or belief.

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About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 114,000 employees from 162 nationalities, spanning 78 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that's fit for the future. In Asia Pacific, DP World employs almost 10,000 people, and has ports and terminals in 18 locations.

We're rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology - and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we're at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer's door.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW

TO CHANGE WHAT'S POSSIBLE FOR EVERYONE.