View Vacancy – Senior Market Adviser, Helsinki Finland | DBT (FIN24.397)

This will include:

• Proactively identifying Finnish companies with potential to expand to the UK.
• Initiating and building relationships with potential investor companies to encourage, advise and support them with establishment and expansion of a UK subsidiary.
• Maintaining a dialogue with companies in the pipeline to identify and seek to resolve issues in the investor journey. Communicating with DBT’s sector teams and delivery partners in the UK to ensure that companies receive the support they need.
• Promoting the UK as investment destination to companies in Finland. Conveying the UK offer convincingly by obtaining detailed market knowledge and an understanding of the business environment as well as opportunities in agreed sectors in the UK.
• Developing and maintaining a network of stakeholders in the UK, including DBT HQ and delivery partners, to help investor companies land in the UK.

The Senior Market Adviser will support the wider network, Embassy and team objectives, including on cross-cutting events, visits and meetings. They will collaborate with other teams in the Embassy, as well as colleagues in British Embassies in the Nordic-Baltic region.

There is a reporting requirement to timely capture, record and maintain information of interactions and services delivered on a CRM system, as well as a requirement to deliver against agreed KPIs with evidenced investment wins.

Essential on arrival:

• Fluency in Finnish (at least B2 level*) and proficiency in English, both written and spoken (minimum of C1 CEFR framework level language*).
• University degree in a relevant field, such as business development or economics.
• Previous work experience, preferably minimum of 3 years in international business development, company internationalisation, investment promotion or similar.
• Proven experience in providing a timely service to external customers, with the ability to handle multiple customer relationships concurrently.
• Capability to initiate, build and maintain networks with different types of stakeholders and DBT’s delivery partners both in Finland and the UK.
• Ability to proactively source information in response to sometimes complex questions.