Manager- Export Campaigns (Colombia)

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Job Category Department for Business and Trade roles (DBT) Job Subcategory DIT Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)

Main purpose of job:

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is responsible for promoting UK trade and investment with the rest of the world.

We are the department for economic growth.

We support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the UK.

The overseas network is a vital asset in delivering the UK’s trade and investment ambitions.

Embedded within British embassies and high commissions, our trade teams—led by HM Trade Commissioners—work in close coordination with diplomatic staff to promote UK exports, attract investment, and improve market access.

Through commercial diplomacy, they build strategic relationships, provide expert market insight, and support UK businesses to navigate local conditions and seize opportunities.

This integrated approach ensures our efforts align with broader UK priorities, including sectoral growth, supply chain resilience, and clean energy transition.

The DBT team across Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAC) is led by the HM Trade Commissioner for Latin America and the Caribbean, and his team is responsible for:

Growing the overall trade and investment relationship between the UK and LATAC markets.

Improving market access for British companies, including small and medium sized businesses (SMEs).

Developing trade policy.

Information About the Role:

The Manager-Export Campaign (HEO) role will be part of our regional exports and trade promotion team – which aims to connect UK businesses with high-value international opportunities—helping UK exporters, and the economy, to grow.

This role will support the delivery of priority export promotion campaigns in LATAC.

These export campaigns will be centred around the growth priorities and trade opportunities outlined in the UK’s recently published Modern Industrial Strategy and Trade Strategy.

Operating under the direction of our regional senior management, the HEO will build a pipeline of high-value export opportunities aligned to our export campaigns, and work hand-in-hand with UK businesses in pursuit of these export opportunities.

This role involves developing commercial strategies that incorporate UK government levers (such as UK Export Finance).

The successful candidate will need to work with senior internal and external stakeholders to implement these strategies, to ultimately support UK businesses secure high-value export opportunities across LATAC.

Roles and responsibilities: 

Plan and implement export promotion strategies to deliver export campaigns across the LATAC region, ensuring alignment with broader departmental priorities (as set out in the UK’s Modern Industrial Strategy and Trade Strategy).

Build and maintain pipelines of export opportunities, through developing relationships with key public and private sector stakeholders across markets in LATAC.

Conduct market research and maintain up-to-date intelligence on LATAC markets, identifying trends, opportunities, and barriers to trade.

Foster relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including trade associations, sector experts, and regional partners, to promote UK capabilities in the region.

Account manage select UK businesses that fall within a priority export campaign.

Collaborate with trade policy colleagues in DBT to address market access barriers and unlock commercial benefits for UK exporters.

Collaborate with FCDO colleagues, both in the UK and across UK Missions in the LATAC region, to inform upstream “market-making” interventions that support partner country objectives and create commercial opportunities for UK industry.

Develop, with the support of DBT comms, a communications strategy to drive the success of DBT’s export campaigns in the region.

Provide expert advice and support to senior colleagues, contributing to policy development and operational planning.

Resources managed (staff and expenditure): 

This role will likely manage 1-2 interns and may also be given a budget allocation to support operational delivery.

Language requirements: 

Language: English, Spanish 

Level of language required: Fluent written and spoken (CEFR C1 essential; C2 in at least one language preferable) 

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

Essential on arrival: 

Fluent Spanish and English (both written and spoken).

Excellent presentation and communication skills.

Proven ability to form professional relationships and build trust with a wide range of contacts from different backgrounds including at senior levels.

5 years of relevant work experience, such as but not limited to: successful business development, building client relationships, growing market share or developing accounts.

Experience of account and/or project management.

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience: 

A relevant degree.

Experience using project management or CRM tools to track progress against sales or commercial targets/KPIs.

Experience of working effectively with the public sector and/or multilateral organisations, especially governments or organisations in the Latin America and the Caribbean (LATAC) region.

Existing network of stakeholder (private and public sector) contacts within the LATAC region.

Previous experience of managing staff, including to implement and monitor strategic workplans.

Required behaviours Communicating and Influencing, Seeing the Big Picture, Working Together Application deadline 27 October 2025 Grade Higher Executive Officer (HEO) Type of Position Full-time Region Latin America and Spanish speaking Caribbean Country/Territory Colombia Location (City) Bogota Type of Post British Embassy Number of vacancies 3 Start Date 1 April 2026 Other benefits and conditions of employment

External applicants and non-DBT internal applicants must have the legal status to live and work in Colombia.

Internal DBT candidates are encouraged to apply for any vacancy for which they are qualified regardless of its listed location.

If an internal DBT candidate’s application is successful, consideration will be given to determine if the role can be performed from the successful candidate’s current location or if it should remain at the advertised location.

There is no guarantee a role will move and each decision will be made on a case by case basis.

Please note that if a role is approved to move to a different location, the new location’s terms & conditions of service will apply, including salary, benefit offerings, internal policies, etc.

Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary, e.g. some non-local national staff and some spouses or partners of UK diplomatic staff, will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.

Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a ‘reserve list’.

If during the reserve period of 12 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidate.

The British Embassy Network offers a strong benefits package.

This package includes generous vacation and leave time, flexible working patterns, and enriching learning and development opportunities.

Please note that internal candidates applying for positions in other Posts, if they are successful should resign their contract in the respective Post to be admitted in the Post where the position has been advertised.

Learning and development opportunities:

DBT’s strong L&D offer includes access to a range of in-house and e-learning opportunities; a regional L&D fund; shadowing and mentoring opportunities; masterclasses from experts and opportunities to get involved in the corporate work across our global network.