From our industrial base to emerging sectors, we are focused on attracting investment, supporting businesses and creating high-quality jobs. We are now looking for an ambitious Head of Business & Investment to drive this agenda. This is a strategic leadership role responsible for positioning North Lincolnshire as a destination for investment and growth. You will lead inward investment, business engagement and economic development activity working with partners, investors and government to unlock opportunity.
Align economic growth with place and community outcomes. We are collectively organised around the people and place of North Lincolnshire. Together we ensure that our communities are safe, well, prosperous and connected. We are ambitious for North Lincolnshire, we want our area to be the #BestPlace for our residents by being the #BestCouncil we can be. We achieve this through living our values – equality of opportunity, excellence, integrity and self-responsibility – in all that we do.
Responsibilities
Lead the Council's business and investment strategy
Attract and secure inward investment into North Lincolnshire
Support local businesses to grow and succeed
Build strong relationships with investors, partners and government
Promote North Lincolnshire as a competitive location for business
Qualifications
Has experience in economic development, investment or business growth
Understands how to attract and secure investment
Is commercially aware and opportunity-focused
Builds strong relationships and partnerships
Can operate strategically while delivering results
You will be motivated by driving growth that benefits both the economy and communities. Please see attached job description and employee specification which you should refer to when completing your application to demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.
Opportunities
Major opportunities in clean growth, energy and investment
A proud industrial base that is evolving, not declining
Communities with identity, ambition and untapped potential
A council determined to lead from the front
Families choosing to live, grow and succeed in a place with exceptional spaces and opportunities
Rewiring how the council operates
Shifting demand through prevention and early intervention
Building communities, not dependency
Ensuring growth translates into real outcomes for places
Vision & Culture
Lead the Change. Build the System. Deliver the Future of North Lincolnshire. North Lincolnshire is a place with real character – a place shaped by industry, resilience and pride from our steel heritage to our market towns, rural communities and growing economy. But this is not just a place with a strong past. It is a place with a serious future.
We are not standing still. In North Lincolnshire, we are not tweaking around the edges. We are redesigning how local government works – connecting planning, growth, operations, community investment and commercial into one integrated system built around neighbourhoods. This is not about managing services. It is about building a system that delivers outcomes for families, communities and businesses.
We are now building the leadership team to do it – Head of Business & Investment.
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