Senior Advisor International Partnerships - Maritime Security Ecosystem

We seek a Senior Advisor to

• build peer-cluster partnerships with leading Northern European maritime security clusters such as Kiel, Gdańsk, Gothenburg, Horten and translate them into continuous joint activity.

• position the Turku region in EU and alliance-level programmes (ENDR, EnSure Collaborative, EDF consortia, NATO DIANA, NATO Innovation Range).

• establish ecosystem-level connections to the industrial ecosystems of Northern European prime contractors cluster-to-cluster, not individual customer relationships.

• coordinate the regions international event presence as a recognized European maritime security cluster

• Connect international work to Turku Technology Campus (University of Turku, Åbo Akademi, Turku UAS, Novia) and to Finnish national authorities and industry associations.

In this role you will

• build peer-cluster partnerships with Northern European maritime security clusters

• connect international work to Turku Technology Campus

• position the Turku region in EU and alliance-level programmes

• establish ecosystem-level connectios to the industrial ecosystems of Northern European prime contractors

You should have

• a strong combination of commercial and institutional substance

• demonstrated experience in international networking and partnership building.

Considered an advantage

• existing networks in the maritime, defence or security sector in Northern Europe.

• familiarity with EU and alliance-level instruments

• experience a commercial diplomacy, export promotion or investment promotion

• understand of dual-use technologies, autonomous systems or industrial AI.

Note on eligibility

• applicants must hold citizenship of a NATO member state. Finnish citizen ship is not required.

We offer

• a high-visibility role in the most strategically important industrial ecosystem in the region.

• a clear mandate to build somethin that does not yet exist in the Finnish national structure: ecosystem-level international partnership work in maritime security.

• an inspiring team in the most agile growth platform in the Baltic Sea region, with a clear mandate within your portfolio.

This role is international by design and can pe performed in English. At the same time Business Turku´s working language is Finnish. We expect a working commend of Finnish or a credible willingness to build it during the assignment, and we are happy to support language development.