Assistant Director: Advanced Manufacturing Industries at Department of Trade, Industry and Competition

REQUIREMENTS :

• A Minimum qualification at NQF level 7 in Business Management/Investment /Finance /Economics/Marketing/ or relevant qualification.
• 3-5 years’ experience in Industry/Marketing / Finance in both private or public sector or relevant environment. Computer Literacy (MS Office Package) Strategic Investment IPAP and economic policies training, Project Management.

DUTIES :

• Attraction, retention and expansion of local and foreign direct investment in South Africa Provide inputs into the development of the investment. recruitment- strategy and plans for the Sector. Support the implementation of investment promotion and recruitment programmes. Provide support for the successful arrangement of inward and outward missions. Maintain and update an investor’s projects database. Conduct desktop research and preliminary analyse companies’ investment proposals and business plans. Provide inputs into the development of business cases for companies to invest in South Africa. Provide support on the investment cycle in terms of investor targeting, lead generation and investment marketing. Identification of measures to mitigate economic risk. Lead generation and project investment marketing.
• Provide inputs into the development and implementation of the investment marketing plan. Undertake preliminary identification and authentication of leads. Facilitate the initial arrangement of investors’ visits to South Africa. Facilitate the initial process of converting leads into projects. Undertake initial tracking and analysis of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and prospects. Prepare the initial list of investment projects as input to Business Plan. Undertake preliminary packaging of investment projects for local and foreign investment conferences, pavilions, and targeted outward investment missions. Provide inputs into the development of marketing materials such as customised presentations, briefing documents and speeches. Undertake the initial development of value propositions for the sector and analysis of trends in the sector. Stakeholder Management, engage with stakeholders and maintain relations within the public, private sectors and industry organisations.
• Develop strong partnerships and communication with stakeholders. Customer Relations Management. Manage the quality assurance of customer relationship management system (CRM) based on initial inputs provided by TIA. Undertake initial follow-up investment enquiries and leads. Undertake initial identification of group or individual target. investors for a specific incentives. Sub Directorate. Management prepare the Initial collation of quarterly and annual reports, business plans and targets. Provide information for compilation of reports on investment meetings and visits. Report on financial and operational risk & provide input formitigation Manage the human resources.