Deputy Director Market Access Strategy and Delivery
| Posting date: | 27 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | £76,000 to £86,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 14 April 2025 |
| Location: | Edinburgh |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 398524/5 |
Summary
The key roles of the Directorate include leading on bilateral trade and investment strategies including trade dialogues; managing and leading the Government's market access programme which contributes £billions to UK economic growth through opening opportunities to businesses across overseas markets; leading on the implementation of free trade agreements; and the interpretation of geostrategic and regional trends and translating these into the Department’s overall and country-based approach.
This is an important and exciting role central to the Directorate and Departments international work – supporting the overall co-ordination of international bilateral strategies and implementation of Free Trade Agreements in key markets alongside leading on the co-ordination, shaping and delivery of a multi-billion market access programme – including the design and delivery of a multi-million market access fund.
Key responsibilities:
- Leading and managing a team of circa 30 people across DBT locations;
- Overall global strategy for engagement on key policy areas across DBT;
- Driving delivery and DBT input into DBT priority global or intra-regional Cross-Whitehall initiatives;
- Connectivity across DBT and international trade policy, market access and implementation specifically;
- Implementation and market access policy and strategy – including delivery of the Market access fund and driving new initiatives and ways of working across Directorate;
- Shaping the strategy and future direction of Market access work;
- Overall Directorate and Cross-Whitehall Governance
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