Head of Southeast Asia and Head of Australia and New Zealand, Investor Relations
We deliver through 26 partner organisations covering a diverse spectrum of economic activity, ranging from the British Business Bank to the Pubs Code Adjudicator.
DBT’s Investment Directorate aims to deliver economic growth to all nations and regions of the UK through attracting and retaining high value inward investment. Our divisions including Investor Relations, Investment Propositions & Opportunities and Investment Services deliver expert advice and support to international investors, and promote strategically important investment opportunities, enhance the competitiveness of the UK business environment, and lead the implementation and management of DBT’s Investment Strategy.
At the Investor Relations team within the Investment Directorate, we want to make the UK the best place in the world for international investors and ensure the most significant investors receive the strongest possible support to realise their UK investment.To be successful in this post, you will need to work with colleagues across Whitehall and a C-suite level with major international investors to help secure investment into HMG’s most strategic priorities including net zero, levelling up, science and technology superpower.
We actively encourage applicants from the private and third sector with relevant commercial skills. The job holder will need to be able to interact with CEOs to influence them with impact. It is essential this individual has credible expertise.
The job holder will promote the UK as the top investment destination credibly and convincingly to capital investors such as sovereign wealth funds, pension funds, infrastructure asset managers and developers, targeting the largest pools of capital from the Asia Pacific region.The post holder will be the HMG’s global account manager for APAC’s most strategic and influential investors and as such will play a pivotal role in sharing investor insights, understanding investor decision-making across government to improve the UK’s business and investment environment, remove barriers to investment and drive UK prosperity.
The roles contribute to the achievement of DBT’s strategic inward investment targets through focussed engagement to deliver a pipeline of new and expansion investment by:
- Leading strategic relationships between the UK Government and large institutional investors such as pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and infrastructure asset managers and developers from the Asia Pacific region with specific focus on either Southeast Asia or Australia and New Zealand;
- Identifying and leading the landing of high impact new investment projects from APAC markets into regions of the UK where the economic benefit is highest;
- Collaboration and leadership across Whitehall, including the Office for Investment, and DBT teams both in the UK and with Posts overseas to move high impact projects forward, especially those in the UK Regions with a focus on the levelling up agenda;
- Representing DBT at external events to engage with businesses leading to potential investment and help HMG gain insights into investor sentiment.
Key metrics for success will be the number and GVA value of investments that the post holder has contributed to, whether by surfacing new opportunities, influencing investor decisions, bringing in other teams to add value to those, and the number and level of senior business relationships proactively managed.