Job Introduction
Reporting to the Enterprise Manager, the Enterprise Executive will play a key role within the Business and Skills directorate’s ‘Enterprise, Inward Investment and Trade’ service to support businesses growth and investment across the region.
The ‘Enterprise, Inward Investment and Trade’ service is responsible for delivering indigenous business support (via the West of England Growth Hub) and inward investment activity (via Invest Bristol and Bath), alongside a new focus on international trade, to drive a joined up and effective business account management programme for the region. You will provide a high quality professional business support service, managing a diverse portfolio of businesses relationships. You will take an independent, impartial and objective approach, to providing bespoke solutions, drawing on the collective offer of the Combined Authority’s Business and Skills Directorate and wider.
In developing business relationships, you will work with officers across the West of England Combined Authority, economic development leads from the West of England (WoE) unitary authorities, and a range of business support providers.
As an Enterprise Executive you will be supporting the delivery of the regional Mayor’s priorities with a focus on securing decent jobs and training and putting the West of England on the map for national and global success
Package Description
The West of England Combined Authority is seeking to appoint a Enterprise Executive, to join the Growth Hub team.
This is an exciting time to join the West of England Combined Authority. In the last year nearly three quarters of a billion pounds of new investment has been secured for the region. New plans are in place to deliver on Mayoral priorities to improve transport, skills and housing for our residents, take decisive action to tackle the climate emergency, and to support communities facing the cost-of-living crisis. There is a relentless focus on delivery to put the West of England on the map for regional, national and global success.
Led by the regional Metro Mayor, the West of England Combined Authority brings together three local councils, the Local Enterprise Partnership and works with communities, other public services, and industry to deliver for the region.
You will be a key player in making the West of England the best it can be for jobs, training and inward investment. We are delivering on bringing secure and fairly-paid jobs to the region, supporting people to gain new skills, and businesses facing economic uncertainty. We are building on our reputation as a region of innovation and creativity. Come and help shape the future of the West of England, a place so many people are proud to call home.
About the Company
The West Of England Combined Authority is an equal opportunities employer, in line with the Equalities Act 2010, and invite applicants to contact us to identify any additional support they may need during the recruitment process.
The West Of England Combined Authority is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment and particularly welcome applications from underrepresented groups without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or citizenship status. We are also proud to have been accredited as a Living Wage Employer.
Flexible and Hybrid working.
The Combined Authority is adopting a Hybrid working approach, which enables employees to split their week between working in the workplace and working remotely.
Hybrid Working forms just part of the flexible working options that the Combined Authority is offering as the new way of working. Flexible working is an arrangement that enables employees to have a way of working that suits and employee’s and employer’s needs whilst maintain a work-life balance.
