Businesses are at the heart of the economy and DBT’s priorities. Our aim is to make the UK the best place in the world to start and grow a business.
DBT’s Materials Directorate works to ensure the UK has internationally competitive industrial sectors and resilient supply chains for strategically important materials and products – such as glass, ceramics, paper, cement, critical minerals, chemicals, and steel. We are responsible for ensuring that these industries thrive and grow, supporting jobs and investment and providing critical foundational materials for activities in wider sectors across the economy.
We are looking to recruit two Grade 7s into exciting, varied and high-profile roles in the Energy Intensive Industries team. These roles attract a lot of ministerial interest, and will see the successful candidates collaborating with teams across Whitehall and engaging extensively with business stakeholders on issues of critical importance to them.
DBT is a modern and diverse workplace, committed to promoting and ensuring equality and valuing diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process.
Energy Intensive Industries
The Energy Intensive Industries (EIIs) team is a small policy team dedicated to delivering high quality, well evidenced and impactful change. We are the sector team for industries such as cement, paper, glass and ceramics, and work closely with other teams whose sectors are high energy users, such as steel and chemicals.
EIIs are businesses whose energy and trade intensity leaves them particularly exposed to competition from abroad. We deliver policies to support them with the high cost of energy and ensure they remain internationally competitive, ensuring that investment and productivity within UK foundational sectors remains a priority throughout the UK’s drive towards net zero.
Given our interest in energy policy, the key government department we engage with is DESNZ, and we expect our work over this parliament to be heavily geared towards the strategic approach to industrial decarbonisation and energy prices. By ensuring the voice of industry is heard in government we will help deliver policies that are effective, pragmatic, and which do not come at the cost of de-industrialisation.
Specific responsibilities include:
• Stakeholder management, including Ofgem, Energy Suppliers, Trade bodies for Glass, Ceramics, Paper, Cement and occasional international organisations including the EU Commission.
• Strategic XWH engagement with HMT, DESNZ, DEFRA, DfT, MOD, and others.
• Consultation, Legislation and Subsidy Control formalities.
• Commercial procurement.
• Briefings, submissions, PQs and correspondence.
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