Main Purpose of Job:

The British Embassy in Mexico City is looking for a Business Development Manager to join our Mexico team.

You will provide support to the Head of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) within the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) at the British Embassy in Mexico City in their efforts to promote Mexican investment into the United Kingdom, focusing on areas aligned with UK Government priorities such as Net Zero and Science Superpower.

Working under the Mexico FDI Head, you will engage with Mexican startups, industry associations, venture capital funds, and established companies to promote awareness of the UK as a destination for FDI. The purpose of this engagement will be to strengthen the FDI pipeline and land investment wins, creating jobs, prosperity, and driving growth in both the UK and Mexico.

The role will require excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with a wide range of diverse stakeholders. You will be part of a wider regional team promoting investment from across Latin America and the Caribbean. This will require you to develop good working relations with colleagues across the continent to deliver cross-regional investment promotion activities. You will be required to build excellent relationships with DBT colleagues in the UK and with UK-based partner organizations to deliver an impactful programme of activities focused on developing a robust pipeline of Mexican investors, achieving investment targets, and promoting the UK as a destination for Mexican companies. Additionally,  you will also work closely with DBT colleagues (policy, programme, and commercial) in the Embassy to deliver investment objectives as part of cross-Embassy and regional strategies.

This is an exciting opportunity to work on improving bilateral trade and investment relations between the United Kingdom and Mexico through increased investment and enhancing knowledge-sharing networks and ecosystems in fast-growing sectors such as tech and renewables. You will have the opportunity to gain experience in organising investment promotion activities within Mexico, and potentially the wider region and the UK. Additionally, you will gain high-level experience dealing with senior business stakeholders and large companies while developing your knowledge of the investment world and specific sectors.

The position will suit an energetic team player, motivated self-starter with a passion and genuine interest in the world of international business and trade. It will require a positive and proactive attitude that thinks in terms of unlocking opportunities for Mexican companies in the UK.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support the UK’s Foreign Direct Investment agenda in Mexico, helping deliver a strategy for attracting high-quality FDI and venture capital from Mexico to the UK.
• Support building a strong pipeline of investment projects from key sectors, especially those aligned with the concept of high economic impact investment and other strategic priorities.
• Support the Mexico FDI Head in engagement with existing and potential investors and lead engagement with lower-value prospects and agreed sectors.
• Help plan, organise, and participate in investment-promotion events, including seminars, conferences, and networking sessions that showcase the benefits of investing in the UK to Mexican companies.
• Conduct comprehensive market research to identify new companies with the potential to expand internationally.
• Assist Mexican companies and entrepreneurs in successfully locating and expanding operations in the UK.
• Support the FDI local team with the delivery of key projects, ensuring the highest standards in project management.
• Provide administrative support to the FDI Head and Country Director related to investment work, including knowledge management, tracking interactions, and monitoring KPIs.
• Support the wider work of the DBT Mexico team and other Embassy sections when required, including regional engagement, internal coordination and planning, events, analysis and briefing, and contribute to the corporate objectives of the British Embassy in Mexico City.
• Collaboration with other Embassy colleagues covering trade and economic policy, climate change and science and innovation in particular, identifying synergies and contributing to shared goals across the Mission as well as positioning UK companies for future commercial opportunities.
• Collaboration with other UK government departments within the UK, to support cross-Government priorities such as clean growth and to support future commercial opportunities for the UK.

Resources Managed:

Effective line management of 1 Investment Analyst (AO grade).