Co-Head of APAC (SE Asia and ANZ), Capital Investment, Investor Relations
Department for Business and Trade
Apply before 11:55 pm on Sunday 5th May 2024
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Job summary
The newly created Department for Business and Trade brings together the business focused functions of the former Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and the Department for International Trade (DIT). Our joint expertise in trade and business provides us with a unique opportunity to unleash the power of UK businesses, reform regulation to reduce burdens and unlock post-Brexit freedoms.
We unite business expertise and world-class trade negotiators under the same vision of making the UK the best place to start and grow a business - driving growth, increasing jobs, and raising wages and living standards. We deliver through 26 partner organisations covering a diverse spectrum of economic activity, ranging from the British Business Bank to the Pubs Code.
Adjudicator. We amplify engagement between business and government and strengthen our offer to international investors, as well as unlocking exports and negotiating access to new markets through trade deals.
DBT’s Investment Directorate aims to deliver economic growth to all nations and regions of the UK through attracting and retaining high value inward investment. Our divisions including Investor Relations, Investment Propositions & Opportunities and Investment Services deliver expert advice and support to international investors, and promote strategically important investment opportunities, enhance the competitiveness of the UK business environment, and lead the implementation and management of DBT’s Investment Strategy.
At the Investor Relations team within the Investment Directorate, we want to make the UK the best place in the world for international investors and ensure the most significant investors receive the strongest possible support to realise their UK investment. To be successful in this post, you will need to work with colleagues across Whitehall and at c-suite level with major international investors to help secure investment into HMG’s most strategic priorities including net zero, levelling up, science and technology superpower.
We actively encourage applicants from the private and third sector with relevant commercial skills. The job holder will need to be able to interact with CEOs to influence them with impact. It is essential this individual has credible expertise.
Job description
The job holder will promote the UK as the top investment destination credibly and convincingly to capital investors such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, infrastructure asset managers and developers, targeting the largest pools of capital from the Asia Pacific region. The post holder will be the HMG’s global account manager for APAC’s most strategic and influential investors and as such will play a pivotal role in sharing investor insights, understanding investor decision-making across government to improve the UK’s business and investment environment, remove barriers to investment and drive UK prosperity.
The role contributes to the achievement of DBT’s strategic inward investment targets through focused engagement to deliver a pipeline of new and expansion investment by:
- Leading strategic relationships between the UK Government and large institutional investors such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and infrastructure asset managers and developers from the Asia Pacific region with specific focus on Southeast Asia and Australia and New Zealand;
- Identifying and leading the landing of high impact new investment projects from the SE Asia and ANZ markets into regions of the UK where the economic benefit is highest;
- Collaboration and leadership across Whitehall, including the Office for Investment, and DBT teams both in the UK and with Posts overseas to move high impact projects forward, especially those in the UK Regions with a focus on the levelling up agenda;
- Representing DBT at external events to engage with businesses leading to potential investment and help HMG gain insights into investor sentiment.
Key metrics for success will be the number and GVA value of investments that the post holder has contributed to, whether by surfacing new opportunities, influencing investor decisions, bringing in other teams to add value to those, and the number and level of senior business relationships proactively managed.
Person specification
Skills and Experience
Essential Criteria
- Prior working knowledge and professional experience with institutional investors, such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds.
- Understanding of the features of different asset classes such as infrastructure, real estate and energy from an investors’ perspective.
- Ability to cultivate and maintain relationships with senior global institutions and businesses, as well as internal and external stakeholders, to deliver high impact outcomes.
- Proven experience of delivering at pace and working well under pressure, able to think strategically with politically astute acumen, and demonstrate initiative, resilience and agility.
- Demonstrated ability of operational delivery to ensure that goals are met, including through data-driven and evidence-based decision making.
- Highly effective communication, networking and influencing skills, to engage successfully with senior management from global institutional investors in a commercial and government environment, with strong understanding of international trade and investment.
- Demonstrable experience of working towards quantitative metrics, setting and justifying priorities for your activities.
- Proven track record of inclusive leadership and performance management.
Desirable Criteria
- Specific experience and understanding of the regions’ largest institutional investors such as GIC, Temasek, Australian superfunds and other such institutions.
- Strong understanding of global capital markets the dynamics of capital flow, and prior relationships in the industry.
- Knowledge of or experience working in or with the Asia Pacific Region.
Personal Attributes & Skills
You will be able to demonstrate capability across the following areas:
- Able to build and manage effective working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders to deliver against a broad strategy.
- Confidence to present HMG to external stakeholders including senior management teams from global institutions.
- Ability to work as part of a team and on your own.
- Able to work under pressure, often to tight timelines.
- Strong written, verbal and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and external stakeholders.
- Good attention to detail, particularly in analysing and presenting information for internal and external audiences.
- Demonstrating the DBT Spirit (Enterprising. Expert, Engaged, Inclusive) with a keen interest in understanding company needs.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Seeing the Big Picture
- Making Effective Decisions
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
After submission of the first stage of your application you will be invited to complete a Civil Service Numerical Test. If you successfully pass the test, you will be invited to complete the final stage of the application.
Please complete the online tests as soon as possible (within 24-48 hours is recommended), the closing date for the tests is 23:55 on 05/05/2024. If you fail to complete the online test before the deadline your application will be withdrawn. Guidance for the test will be available when you are invited to take the test. The tests are administered online and accessed via the CS Jobs website.
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.
To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
- A Personal Statement of up to 500 words, explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential criteria.
It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date though this is subject to change.
In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the CV. Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
As part of your interview, you will be asked to deliver a short oral presentation, details will be provided prior to your interview.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section on the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.
Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Candidate Support
You may want to join a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.
Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.
Further Information:
- A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.
- Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
- The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
- New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
- Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty. Any applicant who has details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
- A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
- Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
- Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland/Access NI on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk
For further information on the Access NI confidential checking service telephone: the Access NI Helpline on 0300 200 7888 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email accessni@ani.x.gsi.gov.uk
Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email: Resourcing@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Diane Lin
- Email : Diane.lin@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dbtrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email: Resourcing@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints
