Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Director, Industrial Strategy

Reference: 4840648

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London, Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Salford Salary: SCS Pay Band 2: 105,000 to 130,000 (per annum)
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Permanent Working pattern:
Full time Industry: Government & Public Services / Executive Company:
Hays Consultant:
Andrew Timlin Hays office:
London-Central — 4th Floor, 107 Cheapside,Phone:
Email: andrew.timlin

Director, Advanced Manufacturing and Director, Industrial Strategy Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade Salary: 105,000 to 130,000

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London, Belfast, Birmingham, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh or Salford The Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade sits at the heart of the Government’s ambitions for growth, investment and reindustrialisation. We support businesses to invest, innovate and export, strengthen the UK’s international competitiveness and help ensure that the benefits of growth are felt across every part of the country.

We are recruiting to two influential Director roles within the Business Group:

Director, Advanced Manufacturing Director, Industrial Strategy These are distinct but connected appointments. One will lead the delivery of the Government’s modern Industrial Strategy across a complex cross-government system. The other will lead its work across advanced manufacturing, including automotive, aerospace and batteries.

Both roles offer the opportunity to shape major economic priorities, work with Ministers and some of the UK’s most important businesses, and turn long-term ambition into tangible results.

We are looking for accomplished senior leaders who can operate across organisational boundaries, build trusted relationships with business and combine pace and high standards with a collaborative and inclusive leadership style.

Director, Advanced Manufacturing This role will lead the Government’s work across advanced manufacturing, providing strategic leadership for one of the priority sectors within the Industrial Strategy and focusing particularly on automotive, aerospace and batteries and their contribution to UK growth, resilience and competitiveness.

Many of the businesses concerned are internationally owned and can choose between competing investment opportunities across multiple jurisdictions. The challenge is therefore not only to retain strategically important manufacturing in the UK, but to help it grow and attract further international investment.

You will lead a directorate of approximately 90 people and oversee major programme budgets and investments. As Senior Responsible Owner for the 4 billion DRIVE
35 programme, you will support the transition and growth of the UK automotive industry, while overseeing programmes including the 2.3 billion Aerospace Technology Institute programme, the 450 million Battery Innovation Programme and Made Smarter.

You will lead delivery of the Advanced Manufacturing Sector Plan, translating its commitments into investment, innovation, productivity and high-quality employment. You will build relationships with major businesses, investors and trade bodies and help attract and retain strategically important international investment.

You will influence wider government policy, including trade, procurement, finance, regulation, innovation, energy and skills, ensuring advanced manufacturing priorities are understood across government.

This high-profile role requires strong commercial judgement, credibility with senior business leaders and the ability to deliver complex programmes under sustained scrutiny.

Director, Industrial Strategy The modern Industrial Strategy is a 10-year plan to increase investment in sectors with the greatest potential to drive UK growth, while supporting innovation, economic security, net…