Invest India - Mid Specialist - States Team (8-12 yrs)

The incumbent shall be responsible for managing an investment pipeline for incoming FDI for the states allotted and facilitating investment cases in tandem with stakeholders in state government departments. The incumbent shall hold end-to-end responsibility as SPOC for relevant activities in the state including coordination with Sectors and Countries team at Invest India HQ in New Delhi as well as in Bangalore, and other initiatives like One District One Product (ODOP), Startup India, India Investment Grid (IIG), India Industrial Land Bank (IILB), National Single Window System (NSWS), and Project Management Group (PMG)

Key Responsibilities:

Relationship Management:

- Develop, enhance, and sustain relationships with the state administrative leadership and relevant government departments across South India.

- Assist and communicate with administrative leadership in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation.

State Socio-Economic & Business Landscape Analysis:

- Build an understanding of the socio-economic and business landscape of the southern states, including focus sectors, industrial policy, relevant sectoral policies and schemes, land banks, industrial clusters, key companies, and cost of doing business

Investment Facilitation:

- Work with the team to handhold serious investors and facilitate their investment plans/projects in coordination with state government stakeholders.

- Coordinate with state government stakeholders to resolve issues faced/raised by investors.

Aftercare Initiatives:

- Undertake focused aftercare initiatives and maintain relationships with existing marquee investors in the region.

- Review investor facilitation across the respective states.

Capacity Building:

- Support initiatives for the capacity building of the State Investment Promotion Agencies (IPA).

- Identify core skill sets required by employees of state IPAs and organize capacity-building sessions in partnership with relevant organizations/associations.

Networking & Partnerships:

- Network and build partnerships with key stakeholders such as industry associations, chambers of commerce, consulates of embassies/high commissions, think tanks, research centres, academic institutions, and key industry players present in the region.

Special Projects & Strategic Initiatives:

- Assist in special projects and areas such as sustainability, decarbonization, creative economy, and external engagement strategy.

- Assist respective states in formulating investment promotion strategies, including sector and sub-sector targeting and outreach strategies.

Investment Summits & External Engagement:

- Act as a knowledge partner for state-led 'Investment Summits.'

- Connect the state to various stakeholders, including embassies, consulates, companies, R&D, think tanks, industry associations, trade bodies, and academia.

Internal Projects & Team Initiatives:

- Managing team initiatives and internal administrative activities

- Coordinating internally and externally for execution of projects

Qualifications:

- Postgraduate degree or exceptional graduates in economics, finance, business administration, or a related field from a premier institute.

- Relevant work experience of 6-10 years in a front-end role at a global corporate, government agency, consulting firm, investment bank, chamber, or association, preferably in managing sales-operations.

- Managing teams for front end roles such as investment banking, consulting and public policy

- Excellent business communication and etiquette, stakeholder management, client relationship management, and networking skills.

- Excellent Proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel

- Excellent stakeholder management and ability to maintain relationships with clients

- Minimum 8-10 years of full-time work experience (criteria may be relaxed for highly exceptional candidates).

- Self-motivated and self-starter who converts opportunities into long-term projects

- Experience in investment promotion, ease of doing business, research and policy/scheme development, and project execution with central/state governments is preferred.

- Experience in working or running state/central government Project Monitoring Units is an added advantage.

- Prior understanding of the business ecosystem and administrative set-up of the southern states of India.