View Vacancy – JPN (Tokyo) – Head of Advanced Manufacturing Investment Team, SEO

Important Goal of Job:

Working to the Head of Funding, you’ll lead the Superior Manufacturing Funding Crew, to advertise funding by Japanese corporations in these sectors within the UK. The primary focus of the workforce might be automotive and automotive provide chain, notably in help of the UK’s ambition to transition its automotive business to zero emissions over the subsequent decade. As well as, you’ll be sure that the workforce is focussed on the funding alternatives that may create probably the most worth for the UK economic system, which can embody semiconductors, aerospace, batteries, digital elements, chemical compounds and plastics, and medical units.

That is an thrilling time to be becoming a member of a high-profile workforce within the British Embassy Tokyo. As one of many Chancellor’s 5 progress sectors, the UK is looking for to draw extra funding into superior manufacturing, together with automotive manufacturing. Japanese automotive producers produce almost 50% of UK manufactured automobiles, making Japan essential to the UK’s ambitions to decarbonise the auto sector and compete globally on this business. The UK’s Superior Manufacturing Plan makes £4.5bn obtainable to help funding in precedence areas.

Along with the Head of Funding, Head of Vitality and Infrastructure Funding, and Head of Tech and Innovation Funding, you can be a part of the Funding Management Crew. You’ll share accountability for main the workforce, leveraging sources, enhancing functionality and driving efficiency. 

The British Embassy Tokyo is a busy and various submit on the coronary heart of the UK authorities’s work within the Indo-Pacific. Our work on safety, digital and know-how, commerce and financial, and local weather and power partnerships with Japan is on the centre of the International Secretary’s overseas coverage agenda and our dedication to the area.

The Division for Enterprise and Commerce (DBT) operates in 108 nations. Establishing new relationships across the globe, DBT promotes UK commerce to make sure the UK takes benefit of the massive alternatives open to us, securing and enhancing financial well-being, stability, and serving to to create tens of hundreds of jobs. His Majesty’s Commerce Commissioner (HMTC), primarily based in Singapore, is chargeable for Commerce and Funding work within the APAC area. With over 280 employees over 14 markets, DBT APAC is a fast-paced and thrilling place to work.

What the Jobholder might be Anticipated to Obtain:

• Technique and planning. You’ll lead the Superior Manufacturing sector for the DBT Japan Funding workforce. Utilizing knowledge and evaluation and thru participating with UK specialists, you’ll work with the Funding Management Crew and the DBT APAC Operations Crew to set the technique of the workforce to maximise supply in opposition to funding targets (overseas direct funding and capital funding) and financial progress for the UK. While your foremost focus might be alternatives inside the electrical car (EV) provide chain and superior manufacturing broadly, you’ll work with the Funding Management Crew to make sure that as a workforce we’re focussed on the most important alternatives, within the quick to long run. You’ll develop and preserve a enterprise/supply plan, together with campaigns (goal sectors/alternatives), goal corporations, different prime tasks, account administration, and occasions and promotion.
• Transformation. You’ll help DBT Japan management in its transformation, which goals to improved constructions, techniques, and outcomes, in step with the findings of the Harrington Assessment of International Direct Funding
• Delivering in opposition to targets. You’ll design and promote campaigns in EV provide chain and superior manufacturing to draw Japanese companies, personal sector analysis & improvement, capital and expertise to the UK, in an effort to ship in opposition to the workforce’s targets. This might be by way of planning and main a programme of sector funding actions, equivalent to seminars, inward missions, and firm conferences and engagements, by way of account administration of present accounts and goal corporations, and thru supporting tasks, together with excessive worth tasks which can be outdoors of campaigns.
• Account administration. You can be chargeable for managing the workforce’s most necessary firm accounts and guaranteeing robust account administration of all the workforce’s accounts, with the aim of influencing senior enterprise leaders to speculate extra within the UK, understanding company methods and limitations to funding, and influencing UK coverage design to enhance the funding atmosphere. Working with the Funding Management workforce and the APAC Operations workforce, you’ll use analysis, knowledge, evaluation to make sure we’re focussed on the best worth accounts. You can be chargeable for guaranteeing that every one the workforce’s account administration actions are recorded on the CRM system.
• Driving efficiency. You’ll drive the efficiency of the workforce to ship in opposition to your targets, by way of setting workforce priorities, utilizing knowledge and evaluation to trace, and thru common efficiency evaluations.
• Sector lead. You’ll act as a focus for the UK Authorities’s exercise within the Superior Manufacturing sector in Japan and proactively construct and maintain a powerful community throughout the sector (together with business, authorities, and multipliers) to drive funding outcomes to ship the technique. You’ll construct robust relationships throughout the Japan Community to leverage senior stakeholders and different groups in help of your targets. This can embody strategic planning of visits and engagement by senior officers together with the HM Ambassador, getting ready and delivering briefings.  You’ll be sure that sector priorities, strengths and information are broadly understood throughout the Japan community.
• Sector experience. Leveraging robust UK networks, you’ll develop massive image data and experience of your sectors within the UK, and keep updated on developments, together with UK methods and funding, investments, alternatives and limitations, and related commerce coverage modifications. You’ll be sure that these developments are understood on the applicable stage throughout the Japan community. Authorities coverage throughout business, power, commerce coverage, transport and infrastructure is essential for delivering the UK’s ambitions to transition to zero emission automobiles. You’ll construct robust hyperlinks with No10, HM Treasury, Workplace for Funding, Division for Transport, Division for Vitality Safety and Internet Zero, and Division for Enterprise and Commerce, to grasp the influence of presidency coverage on funding, and drive funding outcomes.
• Cross-Japan Community working. You’ll work with DBT senior management on DBT enter into the Japan Community to make sure a joined up, impactful UK presence in Japan, and be sure that your sectors are represented appropriately at DBT and Japan Community extensive initiatives.
• Commerce synergies. You’ll lead and handle shut cooperation with the broader Japan Community within the sector to make sure funding and commerce synergies are maximised.
• Crew administration. You’ll line handle all members of your workforce (initially one HEO, one EO and one AO). You can be chargeable for agreeing targets, efficiency administration and worker improvement. Additionally, you will monitor your individual and your workforce’s efficiency in opposition to agreed targets and act to maintain work on monitor.
• Deputy for Head of Funding. Along with the 2 different Funding Crew leads, you’ll help the Head of Funding with funding workforce management priorities.
• Identification of precedence sectors and accounts, institution of workforce KPIs, commissioning of enterprise planning, knowledge evaluation and UK coverage/technique alignment, and enhancing techniques and instruments.
• Efficient administration of the efficiency of the broader funding workforce in opposition to KPIs, and reporting to the Japan Community, APAC management, Ministers, and London Funding workforce.
• Growing wider funding workforce functionality, together with by way of sharing greatest observe.
• Leveraging visits and occasions to help funding priorities and managing go to programmes and occasions.
• Representing UK strengths and funding alternatives in Japan throughout all sectors.
• Administration of key stakeholders, together with Japanese company and institutional traders, business advisers and multipliers, authorities of Japan officers, UK business organisations, and DBT and cross Whitehall colleagues.
• Illustration at investment-related conferences and occasions.
• Representing and speaking funding country-based employees views inside the DBT Senior Management Crew.
• Deputising for the Head of Funding the place mandatory.
• Company contribution. 10% of your time will contain contributing to the broader targets of the Japan community. This can contain a task in disaster response, in addition to different roles equivalent to main a committee or a cross-network occasion.

Sources Managed (Employees and Expenditure):

Direct line administration of 1 x HEO, 1 x EO and 1 x AO, who could also be primarily based in both Tokyo or Osaka. 

• Expertise of inward funding promotion, and understanding of the funding promotion journey, or different related gross sales expertise
• Expertise working in superior manufacturing or automotive industries in UK or Japan, OR expertise working in UK authorities
• Confirmed skill to work with enterprise, both within the personal sector or public sector
• Confirmed stakeholder relationship administration abilities
• Confirmed skill to guide and handle a workforce

Language Necessities: 

• Japanese and English Language skill
• Degree of language required: Fluent in a single and enterprise stage within the different