Public Affairs Manager

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Liaise with elected members and government officials at mid to high levels on business related public policy issues
- Facilitate high level meetings with key stakeholders, including parliaments and governments, regulatory bodies, industry association and alliance partners to promote and advocate the company's PA priorities
- Support the management of our trade association memberships and represent the company
- Ensure continuous monitoring and evaluation of political stakeholder activity and regulatory developments
- Communicate with the PA team to align messaging and provide colleagues with a thorough understanding of PA priorities
- Represent PA's POV internally and serve as an internal advisor to other functions within the company

**Requirements of special knowledge/skills**:

- Good understanding of policy and legal challenges facing the tech industry and affinity with the tourism and travel industry
- Experience and comfort with managing sensitive reputational issues and/or crises
- Experience developing creative and effective public affairs campaigns that underpin the company's business objectives
- Excellent oral communications skills and ability to distill complex information into clear messages that will resonate with political and regulatory audiences, as well as into succinct updates for the business teams
- A strong work ethic and ability to work independently, while being able to adeptly build internal relationships and rope in allies as needed to get work done
- A confident demeanor with a sense of gravitas and fortitude that can stand up to scrutiny, countervailing views, opinions and positions.
- Have familiarity and comfort navigating multi-national corporate structures in order to successfully complete objectives
- Impeccable organizational skills, in particularly the capacity to manage multiple work streams at once and detail orientation when it comes to writing, verbal communication and strategic planning
- Advanced English speaker, other languages an advantage, such as native tongues used in India
- Prior experience either working in government/civil service or having direct sustained interaction with government entities in Australia and India would be a plus

**Further skills we are looking for**:

- Being curious, flexible, and a creative & pragmatic problem solver
- Confident yet collaborative
- Ability to influence stakeholders across all levels within the organisation
- Being proactive, resilient and having the drive to get things done
- Having sound judgement and the ability to see the big picture and simultaneously appreciate the details necessary to operationalise the strategy
- Having the courage to take positions and make tough judgment calls
- Being a team player, self aware and a good listener - a diverse group will always find the best solution
- Ability to move with agility, prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
- Forward thinking with an interest in emerging issues in legal and policy

**Why join the Legal & Public Affairs Team now?**-
**Who we are**
- To match our global footprint and the array of challenges we face, we are proud to highlight the diversity that exists across this group. We are a team of approximately 165 professionals - representing more than 36 nationalities - with lawyers qualified in many different countries, as well as non-lawyers with public policy, economics, compliance and risk backgrounds. Our team's previous experience spans across a multitude of industries with team members having worked for major global companies (including Uber, American Express, Airbnb, Amazon, Google, Nokia), tech and other startups, government entities (e.g., the Dutch Competition Authority), and reputable international law firms (e.g., Hogan Lovells, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Baker Mckenzie), and Public Affairs firms (e.g., FTI Consulting, FIPRA, Brunswick).-
**As a team, we believe in**:
- Booking's mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world. Travel helps people become more open minded, curious and flexible- Allowing members of our teams to experience different areas or, if they want to be specialists, give them the tools to become more effective in their jobs- Providing holistic legal and public affairs advice; our team should not work in silos- Always looking for better ways of doing things, improving our Legal Operations function, innovating and exchanging best practices- Accepting that it's OK to make mistakes as long as we learn from them- Having a sense of humour and having fun working together; we are a team that likes to collaborate and share in joys and challenges together**Pre-**Employment** **Screening**: