Director of Trade
3 weeks ago
Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)
Are you ready to play a pivotal role in improving the trading relationship between the UK and the USA? The UK’s Department for Business and Trade is seeking a dynamic Director of Trade based in the British Consulate General in Houston. The role involves delivering the trade policy that significantly impacts both nations’ economies. If you’re passionate about international relations, policy, trade, and investment, and ready to take on a leadership position that matters on a global stage, we encourage you to apply.
This position offers the chance to create lasting partnerships that will define the future of trade relations between the UK and the US and the UK and Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico, and Louisiana. The USA is one of the UK’s closest and most important allies and trade and investment partners. The US is critical to the UK’s economic growth, security, and competitiveness, today and in the foreseeable future so this role really matters.
**Main purpose of job**:
The primary purpose of the role is to drive the UK’s trade and investment relationship with Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana. You will develop a strategy to shape and deepen the UK’s trade policy priorities in this region, including at State level. You also will lead a team to increase US investments into the UK in key economic sectors.
You will work closely with senior management at post, acting as the senior point of contact and advisor to the British Consul General on regional trade policy and investment opportunities.
The role has two broad areas of delivery:
- Leading regional trade policy.
- Leading a team of 10 trade and investment officials at post.
You will also build and maintain a strong network of senior level contacts across the region to assist with you and your team’s delivery work.
**Trade Policy**:
You will lead the Consulate’s work to deepen the UK’s trading relationship with States in your region, including building an influencing campaign for a future UK-US Free Trade Agreement. This includes understanding and influencing trade policy at a state level to align with UK policies; leading the delivery of trade policy strategies for your States; identifying and responding to state-level market access barriers and opportunities; and, building support for trade liberalisation with the UK across your consular region. You will become the expert on the trade policy issues in the Consular region and act as the lead point of contact for the Trade Policy Team at British Embassy Washington to deliver regionally focused trade policy campaigns.
The UK Government has committed to a programme of reaching agreements (Memoranda of Understanding or MOUs) that are negotiated with and that are unique to our relationship with individual states. The MOUs set out our mutual goals and activities to strengthen our economic ties; provide frameworks to help address trade barriers, increase trade and investment, enhance business networks; and increase jobs. Working closely with the Trade Policy Team in Washington you will play a key role in negotiating these MOUs and overseeing their implementation locally in collaboration with State governments.
Beyond our work on MOUs, you will be responsible for influencing policy-makers in State Governments to adopt the UK’s policy priorities on mutual recognition of professional qualifications, including making a strong case where States require changes to their legislative statutes. You will also be responsible for building networks with key procurement leads within State Procurement Offices and State Purchasing Divisions to deliver UK policy on procurement access.
**Leadership**:
You will be an inspiring leader to your team; helping them to deliver against their individual objectives of:
- Delivering economic growth to all the nations and regions of the UK through attracting and retaining inward investment.
- Supporting UK businesses to take full advantage of trade opportunities, including those arising through the MOUs, facilitating UK exports.
You will ensure that your team has the skills and tools needed to understand the UK’s offer to US investors and spot opportunities to ‘sell’ what the UK has to offer. Your team will manage a range of high-profile key accounts of the largest US investors into the UK and you will support them to build strong pipelines of new investment and export projects to deliver in the future. You will also lead your team so that their work on trade and investment delivers against the opportunities unlocked by your trade policy work, with a particularly focus on sectors named in the State level MOUs.
You will take your people leadership and management seriously and recognise that good management is part of our corporate culture. You will manage the regional budget in line with DBT’s financial requirements. Through all your work you will promote a diverse and inclusive workin
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