View Vacancy - SRA - Trade & Investment Advisor, Energy A2(L)

The British Trade Office Al Khobar has a vacancy for a Trade & Investment Advisor under the Department for International Trade.

The Department for International Trade (DIT) is the British government’s lead department for international trade and supports foreign investment into the United Kingdom. This is an interesting and varied role located within the British Trade Office (BTO) located in Al Khobar. It comes at an interesting time as the relationship develops between both countries.

The successful candidate will work as part of the Energy team by identifying business opportunities for British businesses within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Support the implementation of the Energy strategy which will help secure business for British companies, with a key focus will be the Oil and Gas sector.
• Research and develop new opportunities linked to the energy sector in the areas of smart cities, technology, and infrastructure.
• Support the delivery of DIT’s activities, for example organising trade missions, receptions, etc.
• Identify export opportunities and market them on DIT’s export opportunity website (exportingisgreat.gov.uk).
• Work with UK clients to deliver DIT’s chargeable services which can take the form of market intelligence, validated list of contacts, etc.
• Data entry into the Trade Office’s contacts database, update existing contacts and adding new ones.
• Key account management of a range of Saudi/ British clients and private sector organisations.
• Opportunity to work cross-team and support the Director of the British Trade Office in the wider areas of Education, Training, Renewables and Infrastructure.

Key competencies required:

• Collaborating and Partnering - Creating and maintaining positive, professional and trusting working relationships with a wide range of people within and outside the organisation to help get business done. Working collaboratively, sharing information and building supportive, responsive relationships with colleagues and stakeholders whilst having the confidence to challenge assumptions.
• Delivering Value for Money - Seeking out and implementing solutions which achieve the best mix of quality and effectiveness for the least outlay. Making decisions based on evidenced information and following agreed processes and policies, challenging these appropriately where they appear to prevent good value for money.
• Achieving Commercial Outcomes - Having a commercial, financial and sustainable mind-set to ensure all activities and services are delivering added value and working to stimulate economic growth. Helping to identify economic, market, and customer issues and using these to promote innovative business models, commercial partnerships, and agreements to deliver greatest value.
• Managing a Quality Service - Being organised to deliver service objectives and striving to improve the quality of service, taking account of diverse customer needs and requirements. Effectively planning, organising, and managing time and activities to deliver a high quality and efficient service, applying programme and project management approaches to support service delivery.

• Experience of project management
• Ability to multi-task and have good organisational skills
• Ability to problem solve and work under pressure to meet multiple and changing priorities
• Good interpersonal skills and excellent communication skills in English, both oral and written
• Computer literacy in all Microsoft Office packages and accurate typing skills