The Department for International Trade (DIT) has this week
announced that it will recruit 2 new Directors General to oversee
the department’s growing export and investment agendas.
The creation of the Director General Investment and the Chief
Exports Officer positions will build significant new senior
capability in the department as it pursues an ambitious, targeted
and strategic approach to promoting exports, and supporting
greater inward and outward investment.
The Directors General will work with businesses from across the
UK to generate wealth and prosperity, and ensure that companies
of all sizes can take full advantage of global investment
opportunities and the growing appetite for British goods and
services abroad.
The Director General Investment will lead a
global DIT team,
co-ordinating government departments and working in partnership
with the private sector to attract and retain high quality
overseas investment.
The Chief Exports Officer will lead the implementation of a new
export strategy to ensure that new and existing exporters can
access the right financial, practical and promotional support to
sell overseas. Export promotion is an essential element of the
recently published government Industrial Strategy,
with details of a new export strategy review unveiled in the
Autumn Budget.
Find candidate information packs for:
Applications close on the 3rd January 2018 with the view to
appoint in the new year.
Notes to editors
Building on the Autumn Budget, Minister for Trade and
Exports, Baroness today (1 December 2017)
announced a new Export Strategy
Review to consider how the UK can encourage and support
British businesses to take advantage of the huge potential to
grow our exports.
