Head of Uk Government Relations and Public Policy

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Trainline Full time

Company Description

We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Our purpose is our momentum. It makes us feel good because we know we’re doing good. As we lead the way to a greener future, we do it together. We’re all about connections - with each other, with our customers and with the world. Just as our platform brings the world together, it’s our ambition that connects us. We motivate each other to go beyond our limits, to experiment, to fail and to always grow.

With over 110 million visits every month to our platform and £4.3 billion in net ticket sales, we're always innovating and making moves towards our final destination — a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.

And we couldn't do any of it without our incredible people driving us forward. Today, we're a FTSE 250 company that's proudly home to more than 1000 Trainliners from over 60 nationalities across offices in London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid and Brussels. It's this diversity that energises us and makes us stronger, helping us to achieve amazing things.

With our sights firmly set on further European growth, there is no better time to jump on board this high-speed train and be part of our continued success.

**Job Description**:
As Head of UK Government Relations and Public Policy, you’ll be responsible for strengthening Trainline’s voice and reputation in support of our aggressive growth plans. Reporting to our Director of Government Relations and Public Policy, you will be responsible for moving perception with key government, political and public policy audiences.

In a period of major change in UK rail and the technology underpinning it, your team will be supported by our award winning Legal, Comms and Industry Relations functions to influence debates and unlock commercial opportunities. You will deliver counsel at senior levels of the business and help drive our external public policy agenda.

Key responsibilities include:

- Developing an advocacy strategy for Trainline across key stakeholder audiences. Working closely with Industry Relations team to support on industry audience engagement.
- Building a distinctive position on key public policy issues as they relate to Trainline’s commercial interests.
- Providing senior counsel on political and policy issues and integrating counsel through the organisation at appropriate levels.
- Growing and developing the Government Relations team within the Corporate Affairs function which also includes our Industry and Communications teams
- Developing an alliance-based model with sector and broader industry to jointly campaign on areas of common interest.
- Identifying and establishing a network of political and wider policy making community supporters for Trainline.
- Providing internal counsel to Brand, Product, Tech and Data teams on interaction with government, political and policy community.

This is a career defining role for someone passionate about policy, public affairs and technology and the difference transport tech can make to customers, industry and the wider green agenda. You will play a key part in helping tell the story of a product that is changing the way we travel by inspiring millions of people to make more environmentally sustainable travel choices every day.

**Qualifications**:
We’re looking for creative big thinkers with small egos to achieve our ambitious plans. You’ll have deep experience in government relations and policy with a proven network of personal contacts within Westminster and beyond, with an impressive track record of influencing policy and political debate. You’ll be used to working in a fast-paced environment ideally within Tech, Travel, Mobility or a broader regulated environment, and will know how to take an innovative, integrated approach to strategic policy execution.

Key attributes should include:

- Highly driven and ambitious, comfortable working within disruptive organisations seeking rapid growth, opening markets and challenging incumbents.
- Proven ability to operate at a senior level internally, comfortable advising at exec levels of organisations.
- Deep track record in engaging senior political, regulatory, media and commercial audiences.
- Confident with commercial acumen and budget responsibility. Experienced in opening markets or launching offerings or new products in a high scrutiny sector.
- Understanding of data-led organisations and putting audience analysis to effect in external communications.
- Skilled influencer and story-teller with seniors, peer group and junior colleagues.
- Understanding and aptitude in broader corporate communication, financial communications, reputation management and crisis communication.

Additional Information
**Why should you jump on board?**

We pay special attention to learning and development and organise quarterly company learning days as well as offering a learning budget that

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