Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
£200,000 per annum

About the Role
The Department for Business and Trade's north star is economic growth. It supports businesses to invest, export and grow - creating high quality jobs and opportunities across the country. The Department has three core roles: creating a dynamic and resilient domestic business environment by protecting consumers, promoting competition, effective regulation, supporting priority industry sectors and fostering scale ups; ensuring the UK is the best internationally connected economy by negotiating free trade agreements, tackling market barriers and protecting businesses from unfair trade practices; and delivering great services to business through entities such as the British Business Bank, Office for Investment, and Companies House.

The Permanent Secretary is the lead adviser to the Secretary of State, providing support, counsel and challenge in setting strategy and developing policy. Key responsibilities include providing strong leadership by translating ministers’ priorities into a clear delivery plan, ensuring the Department has the skills and capacity needed and fostering a high performance culture; managing, motivating and engaging staff to develop their capability and exemplify the Department’s ambition and values; acting as the Accounting Officer responsible to Parliament for managing the Department’s £3.6 billion budget, ensuring effective financial systems and efficient resource use; and being a dynamic, confident and visible leader who represents the Department and champions relationships with senior business leaders across the UK and internationally.

Experience
- Proven track record leading high performance organisations and translating strategy into successful delivery in complex environments
- Exceptional communication skills with high personal impact, able to command credibility with business leaders, senior politicians and Whitehall colleagues
- Demonstrated championing of innovation and experience building cultures of continuous improvement and productivity in large scale organisations
- Ability to secure Ministers’ confidence and translate complex policy and operational challenges into successful delivery and transformation
- Confident and engaging leadership style, inspiring others and delivering transformational change

About you
You will have a strong commitment to the Civil Service values of impartiality, honesty, integrity and objectivity. You are a dynamic leader who motivates and develops teams, fosters a culture of continuous improvement and high performance, and can operate effectively in an uncertain and complex environment.

Qualifications
Open to talented individuals from any career background across the UK. The role requires a high level of professionalism, leadership capability and strategic insight rather than specific formal qualifications.

Benefits
- Salary of £175,000 plus £50,697 contribution towards the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- Tailored learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Inclusive and diverse culture
- Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%