Principal Business Sector Analysts

at  Department for Business and Trade

JOB SUMMARY

This advert is for a number of principal analysts roles across three friendly and vibrant teams leading analysis of individual sectors within Business Group of the Department for Business and Trade: the Business Resilience and Industry Analysis team (c. 25 analysts), the Post Office, Consumer and Creative Industries analysis team (c.18 analysts), and the sector analysis team (c. 45 analysts).

Our mission is to provide authoritative analysis that influences policy-making to increase productivity and support UK business growth. We seek to:

• Deliver an evidence-based implementation of HMG policy including the Industrial Strategy, the Growth Mission and Net Zero agenda
• Shape new policy thinking for sectors accounting for hundreds of thousands of jobs in key regional clusters
• Assure the Value for Money of HMG’s sectoral investments

You will work within the analytical teams responsible for business resilience and supply chains, consumer facing services, creative industries, professional business services, energy intensive industries (EIIs) analysis or foundation sectors analysis. We deliver an array of high-profile analytical work to support policies in key sectors of the economy. Our toolbox includes a wide range of analysis to shape and influence sectoral policy including cost benefit analysis, business intelligence, economic modelling, data science techniques, statistical analysis, and social research and programme evaluation.
These are high profile, exciting roles that will give the applicant an opportunity to lead analysis and support policy thinking on how government can support some the largest sectors of the economy.

JOB DESCRIPTION

In these principal analysts roles you will:

• Lead on the assessment of individual special situation cases including assessing the case for government intervention, identifying the market failure(s), and value for money assessments. Working alongside policy/finance/legal, HMT and other interested/affect government departments to advise senior officials and ministers on the best solution to the situation.
• Lead analysis and work closely with the EII policy team to develop and assess policy options to improve their international competitiveness.
• Communicate directly with large companies and trade associations to understand key challenges faced by industry in their transition to Net Zero.
• Provide analytical leadership and build the evidence base for foundational sectors, focusing on the role of market failures and potential case for intervention.
• Lead analysis on building resilience and economic security for critical minerals and other foundation sectors through diversification of the supply chain.
• Lead analysis on the rail and maritime sectors, developing evidence to inform policies aimed at helping the transformation of the sectors.
• Lead analysis across consumer and creative industry teams, and work to develop the evidence base to inform both policy development and the industrial strategy.
• Lead analysis for Professional Business Services, engage with Sector Teams and Policy leads to develop evidence base and support PBS as a priority sector of the Industrial Strategy

TECHNICAL SKILLS

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• We will assess you against the relevant framework of the government analytical profession you have indicated in your application.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £55,836, Department for Business and Trade contributes £16,175 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
Things you need to know

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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TYPE OF ROLE

Analytical
Economist
Operational Research
Social Research
Statistics

In these principal analysts roles you will:

• Lead on the assessment of individual special situation cases including assessing the case for government intervention, identifying the market failure(s), and value for money assessments. Working alongside policy/finance/legal, HMT and other interested/affect government departments to advise senior officials and ministers on the best solution to the situation.
• Lead analysis and work closely with the EII policy team to develop and assess policy options to improve their international competitiveness.
• Communicate directly with large companies and trade associations to understand key challenges faced by industry in their transition to Net Zero.
• Provide analytical leadership and build the evidence base for foundational sectors, focusing on the role of market failures and potential case for intervention.
• Lead analysis on building resilience and economic security for critical minerals and other foundation sectors through diversification of the supply chain.
• Lead analysis on the rail and maritime sectors, developing evidence to inform policies aimed at helping the transformation of the sectors.
• Lead analysis across consumer and creative industry teams, and work to develop the evidence base to inform both policy development and the industrial strategy.
• Lead analysis for Professional Business Services, engage with Sector Teams and Policy leads to develop evidence base and support PBS as a priority sector of the Industrial Strateg