Business Engagement Lead – Strategy and Coordination

3 weeks ago


Darlington, County Durham, United Kingdom HM Treasury Full time

Are you politically astute, and a highly skilled relationship builder? Interested in the work of HM Treasury and helping to build our future economy? Then please read on


About the Team


The Business, Trade and Culture Team (BTC) is a friendly team with a varied and high-profile remit. Within the team, the Business Engagement and Strategy branch encompasses the Business Engagement Team and Group Management Services. There is strong and supportive team culture that offers the successful candidate the opportunity to build strong networks across multiple work areas.


About the Job


The successful postholder will be required to help set an ambitious vision for the team using their understanding of policy and judgement to make decisions about where engagement activity should be prioritised as well as ensuring that this is timed to deliver maximum value for HM Treasury.


The role is varied and exciting and offers the right candidate opportunities to develop their stakeholder engagement skills and understanding of economic growth policy as well as applying this knowledge to target business engagement activity.


Key Accountabilities for this role include:


  1. Develop and deliver key workstreams of a new Business Engagement approach, changing the way that HM Treasury undertakes engagement to support policy development.
  2. Project manage a programme of work on building departmental capability to work with business, working closely with other central teams in HMT.
  3. Build and manage relationships with seniors, external affairs colleagues and policy teams across the department to deliver a step change in how the department works with business.
  4. Work closely with external stakeholders, in particular individual businesses and other government departments, to support HM Treasury’s programme of business engagement.
  5. Develop business case for record management system for business contacts, securing relevant funding approvals if needed.


The postholder will work alongside the Business Engagement Lead - Delivery role. The focus of this role will be to help enhance the Treasury’s organisation-wide strategic approach to business engagement.


About You


We are looking for people who have the right set of skills for the role, who demonstrate the values of our organisation, and who are motivated to come and work with us on delivering an engagement strategy that is at the heart of how we work to support economic growth.


The postholder will be required to make connections across the group, HM Treasury, other government departments and with industry. We are therefore seeking a pro-active and self-motivated individual with excellent interpersonal skills and confidence working with a wide range of stakeholders.


Some of the Benefits our people love


  • 25 days annual leave (rising to 30 after 5 years), plus 8 public holidays and the King’s birthday (unless you have a legacy arrangement as an existing Civil Servant). Additionally, we operate flexitime systems, allowing employees to take up to an additional 2 days off each month
  • Flexible working patterns (part-time, job-share, condensed hours)
  • Generous parental and adoption leave packages
  • Access to a generous Defined Benefit pension scheme with employer contributions of 27%
  • Access to a cycle-to-work salary sacrifice scheme and season ticket advances
  • A range of active staff networks, based around interests (e.g. analysts, music society, sports and social club) and diversity


For more information about the Treasury, role, salary, benefits, who to contact and how to apply please follow the Apply link.


If you need any reasonable adjustments to take part in the selection process, please tell us about this in your online application form, or speak to the recruitment team.



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