Multiple job opportunities with the Department for Business and Trade
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We are the UK’s international trade Department.
We champion free trade, help British businesses unleash their potential and create new investment opportunities. This brings prosperity and helps level up every region of the UK.
Our global scale, breadth of specialist expertise, and entrepreneurial spirit, as a confident and dynamic Department, makes us unique.
What we do matters. We have pride and passion in our work.
We are vital to the UK’s success as an independent trading nation and our ambition for a Global Britain. Our work is central to the Government’s plans to boost the economy, make our businesses more dynamic and create a green industrial revolution.
What we do
Our mission here at DBT is to promote British trade across the world and ensure the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us. This means we become more prosperous through wealth and job creation. It also means we’re more competitive on a global stage and able to make the most of the lucrative opportunities it offers.
We’re responsible for developing, coordinating and delivering a new trade and investment policy for the UK, including preparing for and negotiating Free Trade Agreements and market access with non-EU countries, promoting UK trade and investment across the world, and promoting the UK’s interests in the global trading system through the G7 and WTO.
We’re collaborative in how we work, both in the UK and overseas, supporting one another and sharing our successes and challenges. All our staff are encouraged to embody our DBT Spirit: being expert, enterprising, engaged and inclusive - preparing the UK for its future as an independent trading nation and continuing to attract inward investment and support all parts of the UK to grow through trade.
For you, it means a job that will help you grow as part of an organization that operates as one team drawing on wide-ranging expertise from business and finance to policy and economics. You will get an international perspective on business as you focus on connecting the best of British commercial thinking with the needs of businesses around the globe. It also means shaping our trade and investment policy with a future guaranteed to make history.
Find out more about DBT and what we do on our GOV.uk site or follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
What you can do
Help shape the future of trade and investment. By promoting and financing international trade and investment and championing free trade, DBT secures and improves the economic wellbeing and stability of the UK and enhances global prosperity, whilst helping to create tens of thousands of jobs every year.
Join us at various locations across the UK and we’ll draw on your insight and develop what you bring to the table. Opening up markets, creating free and fair-trade frameworks, using our trade clout to underpin our place in the world. All this and more awaits.
The sheer scope and scale of what we have created in our department means opportunities for people at all levels, from all kinds of backgrounds. You could be a senior manager striking a bargain through innovative free trade agreements or you could join us at entry level in a role that provides the vital corporate backbone to what we do.
Wherever you are in your career, you can look forward to unrivalled international exposure in roles ranging from policy making and delivery, contract management, finance and HR to marketing and communications, digital, project management and delivery.