Head of Trade for Defence

il y a 2 semaines

Bruxelles, Région de Bruxelles, Belgique Foreign & Commonwealth Office Temps plein
Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)


The British Embassy in Brussels is part of a world-wide network, representing British political, economic, consular and prosperity interests overseas and is now looking for a Head of Trade for Defence & Security Exports covering Belgium, Luxembourg and NATO.


  • This is a high profile and senior role in which you will be responsible for:
  • the overall coordination of the BeLux & NATO defence and security trade campaign within a wider BENELUX Defence and Security regional team structure;
- the development and successful implementation of the annual defence and security business plan for BeLux and NATO;
- promoting and increasing awareness of defence and security export opportunities across BeLux to UK Industry, and increasing UK trade support with NATO;
- supporting UK industry working on short/medium/long term BeLux & NATO export campaigns with regular updates, intelligence sharing, access to contacts and wider account management to secure business wins;
- strategic account management of the key UK companies in the defence & security sector;
- coordination of activities, contact engagement, and information sharing with HMG departments across the Ministry of Defence, Home Office, Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office and Department for Business and Trade Defence and Security Exports team, including sector specific UK trade associations;
- leading on the design, coordination and organisation of key industry engagement activities and events, in collaboration with key partners;
- leading on senior visits to the BeLux region and to NATO;
- leading and line managing the defence & security team, currently an EO Trade Adviser, mainly focusing on NATO.

  • Contributing to the work of the Embassy trade team, ensuring the delivery of agreed and set trade team targets and contributing to the wider economic diplomacy agenda of the British Embassy.

For additional information please follow the links:

  • DSE: UK Defence & Security Exports
Essential qualifications, skills and experience

  • A good knowledge of the defence and/or security sector and of its procurement processes
  • Excellent organisational, presentation, drafting and networking skills, working as part of a virtual team
  • Flexibility, a proactive and entrepreneurial attitude
  • Excellent people skills
  • Effective time management: able to handle the multiple priorities of the role within the agreed deadline
  • Strong account management experience and excellent customer relation building skills. The ability to deal with customers at the most senior levels of decision making
  • Fluent written and spoken English (a minimum of C1/C2 level).
  • Business level knowledge of French and/or Dutch (a minimum of C1 level in at least one of the referred languages).
  • Good IT skills
  • Flexibility for occasional out of hours work and travel
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

  • Knowledge of NATO
  • Knowledge of the Belgian and UK business scenes, preferably in the area of security and defence
  • Experience in business development in an international context
  • Experience of managing a team


 Required behaviours
  • Seeing the Big Picture, Changing and Improving, Making Effective Decisions, Delivering at Pace, Leadership, Communicating and Influencing Application deadline Application deadline day Application deadline month Application deadline year
  • 14 May 2023
Grade

  • Higher Executive Officer (HEO)
Type of Position

  • Fulltime, Permanent
Working hours per week

  • 36.25
Region

  • Europe, Eastern Europe & Central Asia
Country/Territory

  • Belgium
Location (City)

  • Brussels
Type of Post

  • British Embassy
Number of vacancies

  • 1
Salary Currency

  • EUR
Salary

  • 6,285.34
Start Date Start Date - day Start Date - month Start Date - year

  • 1
August 2023

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Passport:

officers are expected to be in possession of a passport due to the possibility that they may be asked to undertake business travel.


Please note that it is your responsibility to ensure you meet the legal requirements to live and work in this country.

Learning and development opportunities (and any specific training courses to be completed):
The British Embassy Brussels offers a large range of Learning and Development opportunities.

These include formal learning opportunities through the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office International Academy, expert-talks to build knowledge on key areas relating to Belgium and wider international relations, and on-the-job learning.

All staff have the opportunity to design a personal development plan, and are supported to access appropriate activities to meet development goals.

Additional information

  • Please note, Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment indicates Level C1 as Mastery or proficiency Level which comprehends that a person can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read; can summarize information from

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