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Are you passionate about driving economic growth and eager to see Greater Manchester thrive? If you're ready to make a real impact, keep reading to discover how you can be part of this exciting journey!

An opportunity has arisen for an Investor Relations Director to join MIDAS, Greater Manchester’s award-winning inward investment agency. MIDAS promotes the region as a top destination for business, job creation, and investment, supporting companies with expert advice and services.

The Director of Investor Relations reports directly to the Managing Director and is responsible for driving the successful development and delivery of both domestic and international inward investment into Greater Manchester. This role entails representing MIDAS and Greater Manchester in engagements with senior leaders across local, national, and global organisations and stakeholders.

To learn more about MIDAS, please visit: About MIDAS - Invest In Manchester | MIDAS - Manchester's inward investment promotion agency

Key Responsibilities:

* Working closely with the Managing Director, Senior Leadership, and Marketing Manchester to contribute to the development of MIDAS strategic engagement with the public and private sector in Greater Manchester (GM), the account management of key foreign-owned companies, engagement with key markets, and the development of MIDAS’ approach to strategic capital investment.

* Manage the marketing and activity budget with the existing team, ensuring that activity is well planned and evaluated and that financial guidelines and processes are adhered to so that the budget can be delivered in accordance with the business plan extracting maximum value for money.

* Lead and develop a high-performing team to meet targets within budget, overseeing capital investment attraction, real estate and developer engagement, business development aligned with the Local Industrial Strategy, and account management for foreign-owned businesses in Greater Manchester, including the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) Key Account Management programme.

* Work with key intermediaries including the Department for Business and Trade and Office for Investment, and wider partners to optimize the effectiveness of business development activity and opportunities, encouraging joint working where efficiency and mutual benefit are possible. This includes driving MIDAS’ business engagement interaction with GM universities.

* Work with the Business Development Director to manage the project pipeline, including MIDAS’ interaction with the DBT national pipeline, ensuring that the pipeline is accurate, to inform SMT and wider KPI reporting.

* Utilise the market intelligence gained in international business engagement activity to ensure MIDAS’ products, services and propositions remain competitive as well as the Greater Manchester ‘product’ thus creating a climate that supports business investment/expansion and knowledge transfer/growth.

* Represent MIDAS at meetings and events, both internal and external as required, projecting a positive image of MIDAS and adhering to MIDAS’ core values and policies.

About You:

* Customer / market thinking – the ability to think from a customer / market perspective.

* Conceptual thinking – the ability to deal with and make sense of abstract concepts.

* Engaging with impact - engaging effectively to gain buy-in from those engaging with.

* Effective stakeholder management – developing effective networks of key stakeholders.

* Quality-focused – ensuring delivery to a level of quality and standards.

* Developing delivery capabilities – creating a high-performing team climate.

* Appropriate perseverance – having a suitable level of tenacity in overcoming barriers.

* Independently minded – ability to raise issues and take ownership.

Skills Required:

* Experienced sales team management and leadership with a track record of delivering results with and through others.

* Business to Business Services / Sales at a senior level.

* Local / national economic development issues and inward investment.

* Substantive experience in the economic/international business development/inward investment arena.

* Public and private sector funding opportunities and regimes.

* Skilled negotiator, influencing a wide range of public and private organisations at senior levels.

* Working in or with public sector organisations in a commercially focused way.

* Creating and managing large-scale B2B promotion/marketing campaigns.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of everyone including vulnerable adults and young people, we expect all staff to share this commitment. All Education and Skills appointments will be subject to Safer Recruitment Procedures which include a DBS check and a professional social media check. These checks will be conducted by Due Diligence Limited (DDC Ltd) on behalf of GC. Please note that the successful candidate will not be required to pay for this.

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We are committed to increasing the diversity of our workforce, we provide a guaranteed interview to applicants who meet the essential requirements for a role. This commitment applies to candidates who have a disability or are from a diverse ethnic community.

As part of our application process, you can ask to be considered under this scheme if you are from an ethnic community or have a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on your ability to do normal daily activities. Providing that you meet the essential criteria for the role, you will then be invited for an interview. Your guaranteed interview application will only be shared with the Hiring Manager and our Internal Recruitment Team.

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