Deputy Director – Place
Department for Business and Trade

This is an exciting time to join the Department for Business and Trade.

We have a clear mission – to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country.

We do this in three ways:

• Firstly, driven by the industrial strategy we help to build a strong, competitive business environment, where consumers are protected and companies rewarded for treating their employees properly. 
• Secondly, we open up international markets and ensure resilient supply chains. This can be through the trade strategy, Free Trade Agreements, trade facilitation and multilateral agreements. 
• Thirdly, we work in partnership with businesses every day, providing advance, finance and deal making support to those looking to start up, invest, export and grow.

About the Office for Investment

Increasing investment, both foreign and domestic, is crucial to the UK’s economic growth and the future prosperity of its citizens. Leveraging private investment is also fundamental to delivering new infrastructure, the energy transition and retaining international leadership as a science and technology driven economy.   

The Office for Investment (OfI) was spun out of Downing Street in January 2021 and is now a joint unit between No.10, His Majesty’s Treasury (HMT) and the Department for Business and Trade (DBT).  The OfI is an exciting, creative and dynamic place to work among a motivated and driven team with both commercial and public sector backgrounds. The Office works closely with Secretaries of State, Junior Ministers, and No.10 to deliver the highest-value, highest profile investment propositions.   

The team operates a flexible and flat structure which means that staff across all grades have the opportunity to work directly alongside the senior leadership and have direct exposure to ministers and senior business executives.    

OfI's vision and mission is to secure investment to drive growth, job creation and increased productivity across the UK. We are proactive and entrepreneurial, delivering ambitious outcomes aligned to the Industrial Strategy and HMG Missions. To become a centre of excellence for attracting and growing investment we want to attract talented people from the private sector and across government – local and national - who are curious, creative and agile in pursuing emerging opportunities for the UK. 

This is a wide-ranging role where you will get to develop new skills and build on existing ones to increase investment opportunities and shape the wider Government policies investors will operate under. 

We look forward to hearing from you.