Global Public Affairs Manager

The Global Public Affairs Manager helps strengthen Schneider Electric’s Public Affairs capability worldwide by connecting colleagues, sharing expertise, and developing the tools, resources, and ways of working that enable teams to build trusted stakeholder relationships and protect the company’s license to operate.

Based in Boston, the role connects the Global Public Affairs team with colleagues across Schneider Electric’s markets, bringing together insights, facilitating collaboration, and supporting the development of effective approaches to stakeholder engagement.

The role contributes to global initiatives that strengthen the function’s effectiveness, visibility, and impact, while ensuring that insights and experience from across the organization inform the evolution of Schneider Electric’s global Public Affairs agenda.

This is a high-visibility opportunity for an experienced Public Affairs professional to work across geographies and functions, contribute to strategic global initiatives, and help shape how the Public Affairs function operates and delivers value across the organization.

• Assess capability, resource, and operating-model needs across the global Public Affairs network, in partnership with regional and market colleagues.
• Develop and maintain practical playbooks, templates, and guidance for stakeholder engagement, relationship management, engagement planning, partnership mapping, and impact measurement.
• Lead briefings, workshops, and onboarding sessions to strengthen Public Affairs capabilities and share effective practices across markets.
• Identify opportunities to improve Public Affairs tools, processes, and ways of working across the global network.
• Support markets with varying levels of Public Affairs maturity by facilitating knowledge-sharing and access to relevant resources and expertise.

• Serve as a connector between the Global Public Affairs team and colleagues across Schneider Electric’s markets, facilitating the exchange of insights, expertise, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities for cross-market collaboration on issues affecting Schneider Electric’s stakeholder relationships, reputation, and broader business environment.
• Lead assigned global Public Affairs projects end-to-end, including planning, stakeholder coordination, delivery, and reporting.
• Maintain a repository of market case studies, stakeholder engagement practices, and lessons learned to support continuous improvement across the network.
• Facilitate collaboration between markets when stakeholder groups, business priorities, or reputational considerations extend beyond national or regional boundaries.
• Support the Global Director in advancing initiatives that strengthen the connectivity, effectiveness, and visibility of the global Public Affairs function.

• Monitor broader business, societal, geopolitical, and reputational developments that may affect Schneider Electric’s stakeholder environment and license to operate.
• Bring together relevant insights from across markets to identify common themes, emerging stakeholder expectations, and opportunities for cross-border collaboration.
• Translate complex developments into practical insights that support stakeholder engagement, corporate reputation, and Public Affairs planning.
• Prepare stakeholder briefings, engagement insights, landscape assessments, and strategic recommendations for global leadership and relevant colleagues.
• Draw on expertise from market teams and relevant subject-matter owners to strengthen the global understanding of emerging stakeholder dynamics.
• Identify and share external developments, innovative…