Whether it’s finding the next step in your shipping career, building your leadership skills, helping you grow your team with the best talent who’ll fit, searching for your next chief executive; or providing HR expertise to your organisation, we give you confidence that you have a partner with the experience to deliver.
We know your industry inside out. Founded by shipping people, we’ve been supporting maritime companies and organisations from the boardroom, down, in over 70 countries worldwide since 1997.
Our recruitment, maritime executive search and maritime HR specialists are passionate about understanding your business culture and challenges whilst delivering fast and effective HR solutions tailored to your maritime needs.
And because we have the industry’s largest source of total compensation benchmarking data, we can provide unique intelligence and insights into the rapidly changing world of maritime work.
At Spinnaker, we build partnerships. For over 25 years we have established great connections with maritime people; individuals, companies, organisations and industry bodies. Our recruitment team create relationships with clients and candidates and our HR Consulting team provide our clients with unique insights to support your business hiring decisions. We take our reputation very seriously and we partner with some of the most respected names in the industry.
This means you can rest assured we spend the time to get to know you.
Spinnaker are the specialists within a niche specialism – maritime. It’s our business to make sure we’re the experts within this ever-changing industry. It can be difficult to understand maritime unless you’re in it, this means that you’re in safe hands, whether it’s through recruitment, executive search, salary benchmarking or leadership training.
This means we totally understand you, your business and your market.
Since 1997 we have been building our global network. Our team travel the world to meet our clients, candidates and contacts in person. Our monthly Changing Course newsletter has a global readership of 40,000, our website receives healthy traffic as one of the largest and industry insight, and we have a strong presence on social media. Wherever you are in the world, we’re connected.
This all means we have an unrivalled network that we can tap into for you.
Since 2005 Spinnaker has been benchmarking global maritime salaries, ensuring best practice within the industry. Spinnaker is secretariat to 2 benchmarking associations; the Maritime HR Association for shore-based salaries, and the Seafarer Employers’ Association. With over 150 members involved, Spinnaker has access to truly unique data within the industry. Spinnaker has a team of data professionals who exclusively handle the salary data, distributing it to members and producing reports to comment on industry trends.
This means you have access to up-to-date information that is credible and reliable.
Spinnaker’s reputation has been built on a solid foundation of trust within our network. When we embark on a relationship with a new client, whether it’s for recruitment, search, salary benchmarking or our bespoke HR products, we pride ourselves on our reliability, discretion, and integrity. We’re dealing with potentially sensitive situations – perhaps we’re assisting with succession planning and need to execute the utmost subtlety, or we are handling large amounts of very confidential salary data. We have been a trusted partner for many of Maritime’s most influential companies since 1997, and our reputation is something we take very seriously.
So, you can rest easy with confidence in our discretion.
Whether you’re a candidate applying for one of our roles or a business owner making a hire, we know how important company culture is in the recruitment process. There are different ways of understanding a business culture – like getting to know a client through regular communication, visiting the workplace and building a picture that we can promote to prospective new hires. We also offer team personality profiling so that the landscape of a business can be fully understood – where skills gaps lie and how different personalities can support and complement each other.
This means we are not only looking at skills and competencies of candidates, but we will be looking for that all important personality and culture fit for you.
Spinnaker has long been a champion of diversity and inclusion within the shipping industry.
Managing Director of Spinnaker’s Executive Search division, Teresa Peacock, is a Board Member of WISTA UK and sits on the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Women and Work, and a member of the Women in Maritime Taskforce subgroup on recruitment.
For many consecutive years, Teresa has been voted one of the ‘Top 100 Women in Shipping’ by AllAboutShipping.co.uk
Spinnaker’s Marketing & Business Development Manager, Helen McCaughran and Senior Recruitment Consultant, Hayley Menere are also active members of WISTA UK.
In 2019 Spinnaker was awarded Maritime UK’s Diversity Award which reflects the work Spinnaker do to promote diversity and inclusion via the Maritime Leadership Development Programme, at the annual Spinnaker Maritime People & Conference and through our gender pay gap analysis for the industry.
We don’t just say the right words – we deliver. Some of our clients have used us to recruit their top talent for over 25 years. Our salary benchmarking members renew their memberships year after year. The feedback we get on our maritime people services are humbling and make us very proud of the work we do. The testimonials from our network speak for themselves.
So you know you are using a proven service.
Spinnaker can provide proactive alerts and intelligence on changes in the industry, and fast. We know who’s moving job within the market. With our salary data we can provide real-time intelligence. We screen candidates quickly and efficiently. Our recruitment consultants work in teams to ensure continuity and speed of service.
We’re fully tapped into the market, meaning you won’t get left behind.
The world’s oldest port, Byblos in Lebanon, has been in operation for over 5,000 years.
More than 20 million shipping containers are moving around the world at any given time.
The anchor of a large ship can weigh over 20 tonnes—roughly the weight of four elephants!
The world’s busiest maritime trade route is between Asia and Europe, accounting for nearly 40% of global shipping traffic.