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Do you want to be part of shaping the future of the UK’s most successful business city?

The City of Milton Keynes is the UK’s fastest growing city, with an economy generating over £12bn annually. Our city is home to over 12,000 businesses, including global names like Red Bull Racing and Technology, Santander UK, and Marshall Amplification as well as small, medium sized and rapidly scaling businesses. We are proud to be the only UK city designed from inception with business growth in mind, a city that is Better by Design, with ambitious plans for future growth.

Invest Milton Keynes is Milton Keynes City Council’s Economic Development team, providing support to the thousands of businesses that call the city home, and promoting MK as the best place in the UK to do business. We are always developing new ambitious schemes to support our economy, whether that’s delivery of an award winning Economic Recovery Programme, promoting Bletchley as part of our Town deal programme or shaping the city’s growing tech and innovation ecosystem.

This is an exciting new role and opportunity to join the Council’s Economic Development team as Invest Milton Keynes Manager, leading the day to day operations of the Invest MK team. You’ll be responsible for line management of the team and of securing investment in our city.

Key responsibilities include:

• Helping us position the City both nationally and internationally with investors, businesses and government.
• People leadership of the ED team, leading work including economic development, inward investment and key corporate economic projects.
• Budget management and leadership of our £3.1m Economic Recovery Plan.
• Engagement with the 12,000+ businesses that call the city home.
• Managing key relationships with businesses, investors and developers, and partners including other Local Authorities, the Department for Business and Trade, and South East Midland Local Enterprise Partnership.
• Helping the City Council deliver future economic strategies and plans.

• An experienced manager, with at least two years management experience in local government, central government, or in a relevant private sector organisation.
• Excellent understanding of Economic Development and Inward Investment in a Local Authority context, and an evidenced track record of securing investment decisions.
• First rate communication, negotiation and influencing skills, as well as a high level of political awareness.
• Experienced at developing and maintaining good working relationships and partnerships with a wide range of senior stakeholders.
• A good understanding of place promotion and branding within a Local Authority context.
• Act in line with the City Council’s workplace values (we are Dedicated, Respectful and Collaborative) in developing relationships with partners.

Milton Keynes is a diverse, welcoming, and expanding place, built on smart ideas with even bigger plans for the future. We have world class attractions, beautiful open spaces, and a great standard of living.

Milton Keynes City Council is one of the largest employers in the region, making a difference every day for local people. We’re responsible for all local government services in MK including education, housing, highways, and social services - around 240 services in all.

Our values are to be dedicated, respectful, and collaborative. If this sounds like you, join us for a stimulating and fulfilling career measured on results, and a rewarding work-life balance.

We are really proud of the benefits we are able to offer our staff here at Milton Keynes City Council, including:-

• Local Government Pension Scheme, considered to be one of the best employer contribution rates of 18.8%.
• 28 days annual leave per year in addition to statutory and public holidays, rising to 32 days after 5 years.
• Holiday Purchase Scheme.
• Our Professional Development Centre provides access to courses such as in-house management development programmes endorsed by the Institute of Leadership, coaching and mentoring and access to our Smarter Learning portal
• Cycle to Work Scheme.
• Health Cashplan.
• MK Advantage benefits package – a range of savings on a wide range of retail, leisure and entertainment products and services such as Pizza Express, M&S, B&Q, John Lewis and Arriva Travel.
• Blue Light Card - Employees working within Social Care can qualify for a range of discounts from national retailers to local businesses in a wide range of categories including holidays, cars, days out, fashion, gifts, insurance, phones and much more!
• SmartGo – Aimed at encouraging low-carbon transport and healthy lifestyle with discounted travel e.g. Halfords, Arriva, Europcar, National Railcards and Stagecoach.
• Homebuy Scheme (for eligible roles).
• Smarter working which provides the opportunity to work from various locations including from home for a proportion of your role (subject to business needs).
• A full range of family friendly policies including enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Paternity entitlements.
• Childcare Subsidy.