Corporate Affairs Manager, Canary Islands - Hybrid

The Role

Are you ready to shape the corporate reputation of a leading international business in a complex and highly regulated environment? As Corporate Affairs Manager for the Canary Islands, you’ll play a pivotal role in protecting, strengthening, and advancing our corporate profile across the region.

Reporting to the Head of Corporate & Legal Affairs for the Iberia Cluster, with a functional line to the Canaries Market Manager, you will sit at the heart of the local Market Leadership Team. This is more than a stakeholder management role - it’s about influencing policy, shaping perception, safeguarding commercial priorities, and ensuring our business operates responsibly and sustainably within a dynamic political and regulatory landscape.

You’ll lead the local Corporate Affairs strategy across regulation, taxation, sustainability, anti-illicit trade initiatives, media engagement, and business continuity planning - ensuring alignment with cluster and global priorities while addressing unique market dynamics in the Canary Islands.

If you are a strategic influencer with strong political acumen and a passion for navigating complex stakeholder environments, we’d love to hear from you.

Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Hybrid 

Principal Accountabilities

• Develop & Execute Corporate Affairs Strategy: Lead the local Corporate & External Affairs strategy for the Canary Islands, ensuring alignment with Cluster priorities and business objectives.

• Manage Government & Regulatory Relations: Build and maintain strong relationships with government authorities, regulators, political stakeholders, and industry associations to positively shape the operating environment.

• Protect Commercial Interests: Design and implement anti-illicit trade initiatives and monitor market intelligence (e.g., Empty Pack Survey) to safeguard the business.

• Ensure Legal & Regulatory Compliance: Partner closely with Legal to ensure all commercial activities comply with local laws across product, packaging, taxation, and sustainability regulations.

• Lead External Communications & Representation: Manage media engagement in coordination with Cluster Communications, represent the company in relevant forums, and act as spokesperson when required.

• Support Business Continuity & Leadership: Contribute to business continuity planning, manage the CLA budget and external agencies, and actively participate in the Local Market Leadership Team to support commercial strategy.

Skills and Experience Required

• Extensive Corporate Affairs Expertise: ideally across both private and public sectors, with demonstrated lobbying experience in complex environments.

• Strong Political & Regulatory Acumen: Deep understanding of the local political system, regulatory landscape, and key stakeholders within a highly regulated sector.

• Established Stakeholder Network: Proven ability to build and leverage strong relationships with government bodies, regulators, and industry representatives.

• Strategic Influencing & Negotiation Skills: Highly developed ability to influence senior stakeholders, operate within a matrix organization, and drive strategic outcomes.

• Commercial & Analytical Mindset: Strong business acumen with the ability to translate external developments into actionable commercial insights.

• Leadership & Communication Excellence: Executive presence, people management experience, and outstanding written and verbal communication skills; fluent English required.

What We Offer

In return for playing your part in building our future, you will receive a comprehensive compensation package with salary, bonus scheme and further benefits as well inspiring places to work and collaborate with purpose. Here at Imperial we will give you the opportunity to grow and learn, innovate at pace and be a part of our purpose to forge a path to a healthier future for moments of relaxation and pleasure for our consumers.

Everyone Belongs

Everyone belongs in Imperial. We are proud of being a truly inclusive organisation. We encourage and welcome applications from people of all ages, genders, ethnicities, nationalities, disabilities, sexual orientation, religions or beliefs and of neuro divergence. We give fair and equal consideration to all our applicants. Please contact us at recruitment@impbrands.com to let us know if we can provide support in helping you complete an application and/or attend an interview.

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by 25,000 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo where people can bring their best selves to work. Our agility and collaboration are driving our ambitions, innovation and success all supported by our award-winning development programmes that creates exciting and rewarding career opportunities for all.  Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

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