Hiring: AVP, Government Affairs Executive

Shift Pattern: Standard 40 Hour Week (United Kingdom)

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Corporate Grade: D - Assistant Vice President

Reporting Line: (UK Division) CFAO

Office Location: UK-London

Worker Type: Permanent

About the London Metal Exchange and LME Clear: The London Metal Exchange (LME) is the world centre for industrial metals trading. Most of the world’s global non-ferrous futures business is conducted on the LME’s three trading platforms totalling $21 trillion, 191 million lots and 4 billion tonnes notional with a market open interest high of 2.1 million lots in 2025. Participants can transfer or take on price risk against aluminium, copper, nickel, tin, zinc, lead, molybdenum, cobalt, lithium, steel scrap, rebar and hot-rolled coil as well as alumina, aluminium premiums and alloys. The LME and LME Clear are HKEX Group companies.

Overall Purpose of Role: We are looking for a government relations professional to support the Group in ensuring the LME is kept up to date with relevant regulatory, policy and legislative change in the UK and abroad. This will involve working closely with the business, trade associations, external regulatory consultancies, relevant domestic policymakers such as FCA/Bank of England/HMT, and international policymakers such as IOSCO. The role holder will also be responsible for building and maintaining the LME’s relations with politicians. You will have experience in a similar role in a regulated trading venue, relevant trade association or relevant policymaker (FCA, Bank of England, HMT or EU institution) and have a strong demonstrable working knowledge of the regulatory environment applicable to the financial services industry.

Responsibilities:

• Assist the LME in developing an effective process for compiling policy positions with the business and work closely with the Regulation team to coordinate consultation responses and advocacy efforts.
• Co-ordinate and help develop messaging and corporate positioning on key issues and policy areas and work with broader communications team on copywriting for key campaigns (internal or external), advocacy, strategy and promotional opportunities.
• Build links with relevant political stakeholders and groups to raise understanding of the LME and our place within financial services.
• Make effective use of information sources: monitoring services, law firms, trade associations and industry engagement to build a comprehensive view of forthcoming legislative change.
• Ensure internal LME Group stakeholders remain up-to-date on all relevant regulatory developments within the UK and internationally in order to be able to effect necessary change.
• Create regular reports for senior management outlining key changes or developments with regards to the LME’s key legislative dossiers.
• Engage directly with, and participate in, relevant working groups across the LME Group’s trade association membership (FIA/CMCE/ISDA/The City UK).
• Work closely with internal stakeholders to provide guidance and advocacy support on key regulatory areas of focus.

PERSON SPECIFICATION:

Academic and Professional Qualifications Required: Degree level or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Required Knowledge and Level of Experience: The role holder will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in a relevant policy/government relations role. An ability to deal with and influence a wide range of stakeholders of varying levels of experience and seniority will be necessary. Being able to build strong relationships, trust and to achieve results through others is a key quality for the role. The role holder will have demonstrated experience of policy analysis, condensing dense, complicated text into easily digestible formats and communicating with internal and external stakeholders in a clear, confident, and efficient manner. Good understanding of the UK political environment and experience of representing or advocating for an organisation to government representatives/policy makers or having worked for politicians/policy makers. The role holder will be able to evidence strong knowledge and experience of the UK Financial Services landscape, and the regulatory environment(s) applicable to it.

Skills set and Core Competencies Required for Role:

• Excellent written communications skills – able to draft complex regulatory responses or clear policy positions and ready to support with drafting materials across the communications team.
• Strong oral communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to engage and build relationships with people of all levels of seniority and being able to tailor messages accordingly.
• Excellent organisation and time management skills, attention to detail and being able to connect the dots.
• Ability to prioritise work and to manage expectations.
• Ability to learn quickly, to understand and distill complex topics and thrive in pressurised situations.
• Excellent judgement.
• Solid experience of regulation and/or regulatory policy.

Personal Qualities:

• Be curious, with a genuine desire to understand the business and wider sector.
• An ability to think on your feet and think outside the box.
• Be resilient and confident in your own abilities. You will need to be willing to challenge and be challenged.
• Committed team player – ready to work across the corporate communications function and to use your skills to enhance the function.
• Diligent, proactive and self-motivated, able to operate independently or in a team.
• Practical and versatile – ready to take on different tasks to support the wider team.
• Ability to get on with colleagues and inspire confidence both internally and externally.

The LME is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. In recruiting for our teams, we welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of education, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity, expression and reassignment, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation and beliefs. In doing so, we want every LME employee to feel our commitment to showing respect for all and encouraging open collaboration and communication.

Corporate Grade: Assistant Vice President

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) is a publicly-traded company (HKEX Stock Code:388) and one of the world’s leading global exchange groups, offering a range of equity, derivative, commodity, fixed income and other financial markets, products and services, including the London Metals Exchange. As a superconnector and gateway between East and West, HKEX facilitates the two-way flow of capital, ideas and dialogue between China and the rest of world, through its pioneering Connect schemes, increasingly diversified product ecosystem and its deep, liquid and international markets. HKEX is a purpose-led organisation which, across its business and through the work of HKEX Foundation, seeks to connect, promote and progress its markets and the communities it supports for the prosperity of all.