I would like to thank Oliver Mason and the Spinnaker team for all their help and the personal touch that has made a stressful time so much easier, and more importantly, ensuring that any roles suggested where suitable and that I would fit into the culture.
Ollie has been a great help and mentor during the recruitment process.
The Maritime HR Conference is the largest worldwide gathering of maritime HR & crewing professionals and an excellent opportunity to network with senior leaders within maritime, participate in informative sessions delivered by industry-renowned speakers and discuss the key issues facing HR, crewing and leadership teams in the maritime industry today.
Topics include financial wellbeing, attraction of talent, diversity and digital advancements in maritime.
Speakers include Clarkson Research, Spinnaker Global, Lloyd’s Register and t-three
The event is proudly supported by MHG Insurance Brokers, Clyde & Co, Shipmanagement International, Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers, Tradewinds and IMarEST
Join Spinnaker, hosts of the 7th annual OSCAR Dragon Boat Race 2020.
The OSCAR Campaign has reached over £2million for Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (GOSH). The OSCAR Campaign’s namesake is Oscar Parry, son of Phil Parry, Spinnaker’s Chairman. Oscar was treated for two types of leukaemia from age 3 to age 8. He had two bone marrow transplants – the second trialling an entirely new theory, experimental stem cell transplant, 5 brain haemorrhages. Now 20, Oscar is a living example of the value of bench-to-bedside research and treatment.
The teams for the 2019 Race were: Spinnaker, Hill Dickinson, Swire Bulk, BDO LLP, LISCR, C Solutions, North P&I, Britannia P&I, CJC, Borealis Maritime, Shipowners Club, Thomas Miller, Union Maritime, Lomar Shipping, Golar LNG, A.M.Nomikos, Lloyds Register, Ince, IG Group, Beazley, Baltic Exchange, MSC Cruises.
We already have teams signed up for this year’s race – would you like to be involved? Here’s how:
1 Get a team together. You need ten rowers and drummer to keep everyone in time. No training needed! You don’t even have to have set foot in a boat before. The up-front cost is £500 to register, plus a pledge to raise £5,000 in sponsorship
2 Sponsor the event. There are many opportunities to get your company’s brand seen by over 400 shipping people. From banners welcoming everyone at the venue to sponsoring the drinks, food, live band and boat flags, we have plenty of options.
3 Come along for the party! There’s a bar, barbecue, live music, and a great atmosphere – so it’s a fun day out even if you’re not on the water. All we ask for is a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital, payable on the day.
Find out more about all these options by emailing Lauren Thipthorpe at oscar@spinnaker-global.com or on +44 (0)1702 480142.
This Leadership Development programme has been designed & developed with our partner t-three for emerging or existing managers who have had little or no formal management training.
The programme uses the personality profiling tool facet5 and is delivered as follows:
· Pre-programme personality profile and one-to-one feedback by telephone or skype
· Two-day intense workshop – London
· Follow-on coaching sessions every 6 weeks following the workshop by telephone or skype
Previous beneficiaries of the programme include: project engineers, fleet managers, HR professionals, IT specialists, charterers, operators, operations managers, superintendents and lawyers.
Spinnaker provides unique personality profiling tool for individuals and employers
We provide the most comprehensive and reliable worldwide annual survey of shore-based and seagoing salaries.
Spinnaker has long been a champion of diversity and inclusion within the shipping industry. Managing Director Teresa Peacock is Membership Secretary of WISTA UK and sits on the All Party Parliamentary Group for Women and Work, in addition to the Women in Maritime Taskforce subgroup on recruitment. Karen Waltham, Managing Director, chairs the Total Reward workstream of the Women in Maritime Taskforce and has led significant research into the gender pay gap via our salary benchmarking.
Spinnaker also partners with Diversity & Ability (DnA) which supports cultural shifts in the workplace to allow everyone of all backgrounds and abilities to thrive.
In 2019 Spinnaker was awarded Maritime UK’s Diversity Award which reflected our work to promote diversity and inclusion via our leadership development programmes, at the annual Maritime HR conference and through our gender pay gap analysis for the industry.
Gender Pay
Since 6 April 2017 employers in Great Britain with more than 250 employees have been required by law to report the following four types of figures annually on their own website and to UK government:
The Maritime HR Association, of which Spinnaker is secretariat, began collecting gender data as part of the annual salary survey process in 2016 to gain an understanding of the gender pay gap within UK maritime, compare this to the UK as a whole and monitor gender diversity within the sector generally.
Want to find out more? Contact us.
The OSCAR campaign (The Ocean and Shipping Community Advancing Children’s Health and Research) is an innovative fundraising partnership uniting the international shipping community to raise funds at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH).
Background of the OSCAR campaign
The campaign is the inspiration of Phil Parry, Chairman of Spinnaker, whose son Oscar received life-saving care at GOSH. Oscar had leukaemia twice and endured three transplants before being cured by some pioneering research.
Since its inception in 2011, the OSCAR campaign raised over £2million, helping to refurbish vital facilities at the hospital, and funding pioneering research into childhood cancers and immune diseases at GOSH and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health.
One of the biggest fundraisers for the OSCAR Campaign is the OSCAR Dragon Boat Race, held in London every September. Find out more here: https://spinnaker-global.com/charity
“Thanks to a lot of great people in shipping, the OSCAR Campaign has raised more than £2 million to help advance the work of the leading children’s bone marrow transplant and cellular medicine experts.
The simplest way to describe what we fund is ‘lab bench to bedside’ medicine – treatments that weren’t available yesterday, which may save children’s lives today and go on to save more lives tomorrow from what we learn. That’s how Oscar himself was saved – the treatment pioneered on him is now routinely used to save others.
It’s incredible – we are now able to use patients’ own immune systems to target their cancers. It’s like taking off the cancer brakes and enabling patients’ cells to re-see the cancer. A new ‘OSCAR Research Fellow’ will develop this work. It needs to be rolled out for more diseases and constantly adapted to an evolving enemy.
OSCAR funds are crucial to this work. Without them, there would be no new research fellow and the Great Ormond Street BMT team’s ability to disseminate its work worldwide, train its team and learn from the work of others would be severely restricted.”
Phil Parry, OSCAR Chair
Spinnaker has put more people in the right jobs than anyone else I know. They take the time to engage with his clients, helping them understand their vision and their ambitions. From this solid understanding comes an ability to recommend the right candidates to their clients. Understanding the nuances within the shipping industry and speaking our language, not to mention the highly successful benchmarking project has given them a platform from which to advise and support a wide range of clients. I would recommend Phil Parry as a recruiter, as mentor and with Spinnaker as an essential partner in finding the right people for your company.
Strong communicator with outgoing and dynamic co-operative skills, actively taking leadership. High ability to persuade and argue to the decisive level, able to apply effective counselling and advisory with diplomacy & tact, driving decisions and projects forward. Strong command & insight of lobbyism techniques. Adaptable to a multicultural & international marketplace working with all levels of management, stakeholders & cultures across business units and regions in a fast moving and ever changing global shipping environment. A highly skilled net-worker and corporate ambassador and, by nature, very sociable and outgoing
With his cheerful disposition and open mind, Phil Parry is a great person to talk to about careers in the maritime industry. His wide ranging knowledge also makes him an excellent sounding board for ideas.
Spinnaker are the consummate professionals and know the shipping business inside-out. I have worked with them on a number of occasions and have nothing but praise for their people skills, work ethics and commitment. Phil Parry makes an excellent partner in recruitment and in the maritime industry.
