Director, Chief Investment Advisor

The Office for Investment ( OfI ) is the Government's investment promotion organisation for the UK. It operates at the heart of government, as a joint unit of HM Treasury, 10 Downing Street, and the Department for Business and Trade, to unlock the private investment which will be the foundation of the Prime Minister and Chancellor's commitment to growing the economy and decarbonising our industry and infrastructure. The OfI reflects the urgency of those missions under the leadership of the Minister for Investment, within the new framework set by the forthcoming Industrial Strategy.

As part of this, it plays a central and proactive role supporting departments and their Secretaries of State to partner with the world's leading companies, influence boardroom decisions on the allocation of global capital, and improve the competitiveness of the UK's regulatory and business environment.

You will support the Minister for Investment, No10, and relevant Secretaries of State as one of their key interlocutors with C-suites across a range of sectors, ensuring that deals represent the best possible strategic and economic value for the UK and the taxpayer. Providing strategic direction for the Office for Investment as part of the senior leadership team, setting vision, purpose, and culture to ensure the organisation is more than the sum of its parts across deal-making, origination, and marketing and analysis. More broadly, you will have a critical leadership role across government, working to the Minister for Investment.

You will use your expert understanding of how businesses make decisions, and your networks across industry, to shape HMG's investment priorities and then support Secretaries of State to deliver them. Driving a more proactive and strategic whole-of-government approach to attracting investment into UK supply chains in alignment with the Industrial Strategy.

With your fellow OfI directors, you will oversee the development of cross-government 'hunt lists', and as a chief deal-maker you will also be part of the advance party, alongside HMG's overseas network, responsible for unlocking conversations with these key investment targets with the strongest pitch possible for the UK. Directly drive investment across Advanced Manufacturing and Defence Industrial Strategy (IS) sectors and provide leadership for key opportunities in other sectors. You will have management oversight of a small group of senior deal-makers who will work across the OfI and with other departments to unblock barriers for top-tier investors. You will also have management responsibility for the investment delivery team, which is the core unit at the centre of OfI, offering support on investor fundamentals and working with local partners to land investment of all sizes across the industrial strategy sectors.

The Office for Investment operates a model where all directors are: Collectively responsible for the management and delivery of OfI's investment pipeline. Expected to drive forward major projects as required across our portfolio. A visible corporate leader within the organisation, fostering collaboration and integration across business units. The senior representative for the OfI across DBT and wider government in relevant management boards and fora. Collectively responsible for the management of the OfI, including oversight of budget and resourcing, talent management and business planning. This Director will be a senior deal-maker who will play a critical role in unlocking transformative investment by helping the most strategically important investors and businesses navigate government and break down barriers.

They will have a specific role in attracting and landing investment into the advanced manufacturing and clean energy sectors but will also have to work flexibly as new demand for the OfI's concierge service arises. This role will be one of five senior Directors, who collectively will have responsibility for leading and driving the Office's most important and high-profile projects.

As well as their work providing an elite concierge service for major projects, they will provide leadership and strategic direction by offering a commercial perspective across the OfI's activity, from the way it engages with businesses to the policy initiatives it considers for supporting its sectors.

They will divide their time between speaking to investors and directly advising the Secretary of State and their most senior officials.

They will have a roving, empowered brief to originate investment opportunities, build up the department's trusted contact list in global C-suites, and find innovative ways to remove barriers to investment. The projected time allocation is Oversight and input into specific investment projects - 75% Corporate leadership - 15% Building and maintaining links across OGDs, PuFins, etc. - 10%

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