Foreign investment
This is an exciting time to work on foreign investment promotion and policy in government. Foreign investment plays a vital role in the UK economy.
Foreign investment drives growth across the UK, making significant contributions to government objectives such as the Industrial Strategy, Net Zero and regional growth. DBT plays a crucial role through programmes delivered by staff in the UK and globally, working closely with foreign investors to land investment projects across the UK and in all sectors.
With the creation of the expanded Office for Investment (OfI), there is an increasing recognition that evidence and analysis can underpin a faster paced and flexible offering to foreign businesses seeking to invest, while also allowing for a more rigorous and well-formed view of how the OfI should be targeting offerings to maximise the benefit to wider society.
B usiness Analysis
The Business Analysis team is an inter-disciplinary team of analysts whose mission is to provide impactful and relevant guidance and advice to front-facing investment teams so as to ensure they are in the best position to communicate with and influence the most significant and beneficial foreign investors into the UK and useful end-service products for investors.
The team is embedded directly in the OfI and will work across and directly with Operational and Policy colleagues in a consultancy style format, bringing together both traditional and non-traditional data (including direct business intelligence) into a cohesive framework. The team will produce accessible and effective tools to ensure that front-facing teams are well informed and have clear guidance to be effective in their roles. The team aims to use the latest economic and data science methods coupled with working expertise and business intelligence to identify future business and investment opportunities, while communicating these in a highly professional and engaging manner.
We are hiring a G6 Head of Business Analysis to lead the newly created Business Analysis team. The postholder will lead a multi-disciplinary team to deliver and develop a suite of products and tools for operational teams in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Managing multiple stakeholders and competing demands for analytical support for specific projects and a wider emphasis on presenting the UK as the best option for investors is a core element of the role.
The postholder will work collaboratively across the OfI, DBT, and other government departments with relevant operational and analytical teams to influence a high-profile strategic area.
The postholder will provide leadership on a broad programme of work which includes:
* Leading on the production of tools including ‘Hunt lists’, i.e., identifying companies to target via a data driven approach, to help prioritise the targeting of Investment Promotion services in the most impactful manner, bringing together both large scale developed and novel datasets using coding and data science techniques, as well as engaging with experts to capture business intelligence.
* Working directly with Operational and Policy colleagues to help communicate and disseminate analytical findings to the overseas Investment Promotion network in an impactful and accessible manner to drive changes in day-to-day operations.
* Lead on building the business analysis capability of the analytical division, including understanding of financial information and wider business consideration to better tailor analysis to help market the UK to potential investors.
* Proactively contributing to the consultancy capabilities of the team, working together with the G7 leader of the team to manage analytical requests from the overseas investment network as well as various teams within the central OfI. The aim is to have more confident and agile analysts that can confidently communicate externally with business as well as create polished high-quality analytical packs used to inform hunt lists, as well, as informing investment managers to best market the UK to business.
* Where appropriate, leading on the commissioning and procurement of external research and monitoring and evaluation projects and managing contractors to deliver high quality evidence to challenging timelines.
* Contributing to wider team development, including task management and support for more junior analysts in the team and in making a wider corporate contribution to DIT.
Management – the postholder is expected to:
* Line manage a dynamic interdisciplinary team of up to six analysts (including economists, data scientists, and statisticians) and coordinate larger virtual project teams on a case-by-case basis
* Provide leadership for the team, and representing the team within and outside the OfI
* Plan and develop the work programme of the team, including responding dynamically to the needs of operational teams
* Manage the team’s resources, including recruitment of new staff and professional development of existing staff, ensuring sufficient capacity is available to deliver the team’s ever-growing portfolio of work
* Manage multiple stakeholders, customers, commissions, and conflicting work priorities
* Build capacity within this new team and embed it within the wider investment delivery framework of the OfI to meet organisational objectives and requirements
The role may require occasional travel abroad to engage with DBT staff and external stakeholders.
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