Head of Market Access Strategy and cross-cutting EU policy
| Posting date: | 13 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | £53,630 to £63,481 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National £53,560 - £60,118; London £57,026 - £63,418 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 August 2024 |
| Location: | London |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 365176/2 |
Summary
The International Strategy and Trade Relations directorate is a centre of country, regional and trade policy expertise in DBT. Our mission is to consolidate and grow the market access enjoyed by UK business, boost investment and advance the UK’s wider trade policy objectives, through our bilateral relationships and our extensive network of concluded FTAs.
We are looking for an enthusiastic team leader who can hit the ground running at a critical time, leading on the flagship Priority Barriers (PB100) programme to remove market barriers around the world; explore how this work can support and integrate into this Government’s Industrial and Trade Strategies; and support efforts to make it easier for British companies to trade with some of our closest European partners.
The successful candidate will have ample opportunity to shape the role and influence how the work of their team makes an impact across the directorate, Department and wider Government. The role will also have the opportunity to progress other strategic priorities for the Directorate, working in a fast-paced, flexible and fun team.
The G7-led team sits within a wider G6-led team that also encompasses the delivery of a £4m Programme of funded market access interventions. The role holder’s branch will need to work closely with the funded programme team, especially on communications with regions and posts, reporting and the evaluation of both funded and unfunded interventions.
The successful candidate will lead on monitoring and delivery of the Priority Barrier Programme and establishing the role of the EU cross-cutting function, specifically:
Leadership: bring together a wide group of stakeholders to set a collective sense of purpose and focus on outcome. Challenge and help to define and meet targets within the team, and report confidently to seniors on progress. Work with others across ISTR and key stakeholders elsewhere in DBT (e.g. the EU Hub, Industrial Strategy Unit) to clarify the role and value add of your team.
Delivery: work closely with regional and sector teams to ensure quick actions are taken to identify market access opportunities, deliver targeted interventions, and resolve barriers. Work at pace to provide the latest data on progress, and guide conversations to facilitate delivery.
Strategy: analyse market access data and identify opportunities to make progress against targets, and act resourcefully to support others to deliver. Own the relationship with ISTR’s market access-focused analysts, including how we value market access barriers and measure, evaluate the market access programme. Work with the International Strategy team to support the development of the business case for funding market access work in the next Spending Review period. Advocate for the Market Access programme with senior stakeholders.
International and stakeholder working: maintain strong links with regional teams and posts, and bring them together as appropriate with Departmental enablers to work collectively for shared outcomes.
Responsibilities
Management: the role holder will provide high quality management to their team, leading by example, being a proactive and approachable point of support day to day, and helping each individual to grow professionally over their time in the team. Line management of 2 HEOs and an SEO.
Reporting: the role holder’s team is responsible for high quality, timely input into directorate level, cross-departmental and ministerial reporting on monthly and quarterly cycles. Ensuring the maintenance of good data quality and management information to inform this reporting across the market access and EU cross-cutting spaces is a key responsibility.
Core briefing, lines to take, parliamentary work: related to reporting, the role holder is responsible for holding and updating market access core information, briefing and lines to take; and for being able to tailor this to a variety of stakeholders from ministers to Parliament to the devolved administrations. This will regularly involve leading Ministerial commissions and briefing requests on Market Access.
Barrier valuations, monitoring and evaluation, official statistics: the content and delivery of both of these key areas belongs to DBT analysts. It is though the responsibility of this role holder to provide policy direction to this work, to support analysts with their delivery and to influence their prioritisation and work planning to deliver the best outcomes for the department as a whole. This is especially important around the process and communication to post for valuation of market access barriers; the ongoing programme to monitor and evaluate the impact of DBT’s market access work; and supporting analysts on official stats releases (including a current project to review our suite of official stats).
Non-priority country PB100 barrier resolution. The wider team directly supports market access work on the top 9 priority EU countries. The role holder’s team is responsible for driving progress on any PB100 barriers that relate to non-priority countries.
DBT’s digital platform DMAS. Whilst ISTR’s International Strategy team owns the directorate’s relationship with our digital delivery partners DDaT, this role holder’s is responsible for the driving the programme of improvement for the Digital Market Access System used by officials at Post and across Whitehall to drive market access work.
Market shaping: At present, the barriers targeted by DBT for resolution all come from reports of issues by UK business or intelligence from DBT staff at Post. This role holder will be the point person to support the International Strategy team’s work to explore a new strand of work focused on how “market shaping” activities can form a key part of the next phase of market access work, and more closely link it to the merging Industrial and Trade Strategies.
Work with ISTR regional teams and market access / DBT staff at Post: the role holder is responsible for the delivery, content and actions flowing out of quarterly market access discussions with key staff in each HMTC region. This includes folding in the funded programme side of the team into these meetings to ensure they are as efficient as possible and useful for our stakeholders. This year, that includes organising the annual EU market access conference and an event to convene our lead regional officials by HMTC regions in one place for the first time.