Policy and Product Team Leader

We're hiring: Policy and Product Team Leader at UK Export Finance

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"What makes the Policy and Product Development (PPD) team stand out at UKEF is the cross-departmental role you get to play. You get knowledge of UKEF transactions by providing policy insight to support technical nuances and issues and advising underwriting colleagues on the parameters of UKEF's product suite. When it comes to product development, you will also engage with underwriters and export finance managers to identify the needs of UK exporters, whilst also working with colleagues in legal, risk, pricing, and Environmental and Social to design and agree parameters that consider the wider needs of the department."

Job summary

The Policy and Products Division (PPD) ensures that UKEF has the range of financial products and effective internal policies needed to support UKEF's wide variety of transactions, from major overseas infrastructure projects to UK multinationals and SME exporters. To do this, PPD:

• Structures UKEF's range of financial products to meets the needs of exporters and banks.
• Manages the implementation of relevant government policies across the department.
• Ensures UKEF's transactions follow internal policy and international agreements.
• Conducts market research on potential demand for UKEF support, working closely with lenders (Banks and Non-Banks).
• Advises other government departments, Public Finance Institutions, UKEF teams, banks, and exporters on the application of UKEF's policies and practices to the transactions we support.

PPD sits in the Strategy, Sustainability and Impact Group (SSIG). SSIG is responsible within UKEF for managing UKEF's financial products, setting policy, contributing, and responding to HMG strategy, overseeing corporate strategy, and planning, managing UKEF's approach to Climate Change matters and Sustainable Development Goals, and engaging in UKEF's capacity as an Export Credit Agency (ECA) and across government, as Public Finance Institution (PuFin).

The successful candidate will lead a small team on multiple workstreams across UKEF's financial products and a wide variety of policy areas. They will become an expert point of reference on UKEF's products and policies for internal colleagues and external stakeholders and play a crucial corporate leadership role within the Division. The main responsibilities are to ensure that UKEF is supported by:

• Policies which ensure that UKEF's transactions and products are aligned with UK legislation and international agreements, manage reputational risks and support government priorities.
• a suite of financial products which meet the needs of exporters (including SME exporters), complementing those available from the private market.
• policies, practices, processes, and procedures relating to UKEF's transactions which are in fulfilment of UKEF's statutory and international regulatory requirements, and the policies set for it by HMG; and
• expert advice to internal colleagues, external stakeholders and other government departments relating to the application of UKEF's policies and practices.

They will take ownership of a range of UKEF policies and product enhancements and drive their development, informed by an understanding of the needs of the market and customer expectations (such as banks, brokers and various other non-bank financial institutions). To do this, they will work closely with a wide variety of (often senior) internal stakeholders, other government departments and external organisations such as law firms, financial institutions (banks and non-banks) and Exporters to deliver the above divisional priorities.