Economic Strategy Manager
| Posting date: | 03 February 2026 |
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| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 March 2026 |
| Location: | nottingham, NG2 3NG |
| Company: | Nottingham City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6924 |
Summary
Contract Type: Permanent
Working Hours: 37 hours per week
Worker Type: Hybrid Worker
Salary: Starting Salary is £56,730 (Level one) rising to £60,125 per annum (pro rata for part-time)
Location: Loxley House, Station Street, Nottingham, NG2 3NG
Nottingham is a city with enormous potential—and we’re looking for an exceptional Economic Strategy Manager to help shape its future. This is a senior leadership role at the heart of the Council’s economic development function, responsible for driving the city’s economic vision, policy direction, and strategic partnerships.
You will lead Nottingham’s Economic Strategy function, ensuring that our priorities are evidence-based, forward-looking, and aligned with the opportunities emerging through devolution and the East Midlands County Combined Authority (EMCCA). This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a complex policy environment and is confident working with senior leaders across government, business, academia, and the wider region.
We’ve got an exciting opportunity available for talented individuals to join our workforce - perhaps this is the opportunity you’ve been looking for? Read on to find out more…
Working for Nottingham City Council has great benefits. As well as competitive pay, great leave entitlement and access to a generous pension scheme, we strive to create an innovative, inclusive and progressive work culture where everyone is supported to do and be their very best.
In return, we are looking for people like you - people who are innovative, driven and committed to serving and improving Nottingham. So, if you are passionate about making a difference to the lives of those who live and work in our city, we want to hear from you.
* You can read more about the different benefits offered to colleagues working for Nottingham City Council here.
About the Role
You will lead Nottingham’s Economic Strategy function, ensuring that our priorities are evidence-based, forward-looking, and aligned with the opportunities emerging through devolution and the East Midlands County Combined Authority (EMCCA). This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in a complex policy environment and is confident working with senior leaders across government, business, academia, and the wider region.
What You’ll Be Doing
As Economic Strategy Manager, you will:
- Lead the Council’s Economic Strategy function, setting policy direction, developing service plans, shaping business cases, and coordinating major funding pipelines and bids.
- Drive engagement with Nottingham’s business community and partners, including convening and managing the Nottingham Growth Board to deliver a ‘Team Nottingham’ approach.
- Represent the Council with senior national and regional stakeholders, including DBT, MHCLG, DWP, DfE, universities, and especially East Midlands County Combined Authority (EMCCA), ensuring Nottingham’s priorities are positioned well within devolution and supporting members through briefing and advice.
- Support the development and delivery of projects and programmes that stimulate business growth, innovation, and economic resilience across the city.
- Manage and develop a team, providing leadership while fostering a high-performance, future-facing culture
- Oversee high-level economic intelligence, including analysis, benchmarking, and reporting that informs senior leaders and elected members.
About You
The ideal candidate will be a strategic, collaborative, and influential leader with:
- Demonstrable experience in economic strategy, policy development, and partnership working within a complex environment
- Strong capability in economic research, data analysis, and evidence-based decision-making
- A track record of delivering strategic responses and shaping policy within multi-agency or regional partnerships.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to brief senior leaders and represent the Council externally with authority.
- Experience developing services aligned with local priorities, including equality, diversity, and inclusion.
- A proactive and collaborative mindset, able to navigate ambiguity and lead through influence.
You can find the job description for this post here.
At Nottingham City Council we believe that work is what you do, not where you do it. We offer different working arrangements, depending on the role, including hybrid working. Further information on Worker Types and what these mean in terms of how and where you work can be found on the additional information for applicants page.
For informal enquiries please contact (Matthew Wheatley, Head of Economic Development), by telephone on (07834 105996 ) or to contact me by email, please click here
Closing Date: 23rd February 2026
Please note there may be occasions where we close the advert before the closing date and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
Interviews will be held: 5th or 6th March 2026
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