Job description
Trainline is an innovative, tech business with a mission to
bring together the world’s rail, coach and other travel services into one simple experience. We aim to make travel easier and more accessible, encouraging people to make
more environmentally sustainable travel choices. We’re hugely proud to be the
world’s leading independent rail and coach travel platform and rank among the highest-rated travel and ticketing apps globally. Today, we offer our customers travel to thousands of destinations in and
across 45 countries in Europe and beyond. That’s more than £3.7 billion in ticket sales annually, and
over 90 million visits to our apps and websites each month. In another major milestone, Trainline listed on the London Stock Exchange in June 2019 and is
now part of the FTSE 250.
Our culture is central to our success. We’re driven to sustain our phenomenal growth from recent years, and this means we’re always
working closely and collaboratively to turn our ideas into reality. It’s this sense of
pace, innovating and improving pretty much everything we do, that makes Trainline so exciting and unique - we truly believe our work has a genuine impact and will
change travel for the better.
The International Government Relations (GR) team has been central to supporting the business through continued growth and pre-empting our expansion plans. Headed up by Dr Alexander Ernert, our GR Director - Europe (a proven expert in the regulatory field within international transportation), the team serves as an internal and external ambassador of Trainline to the various governments in key markets as well as the EU Parliament. In this newly created role, you’ll be working closely with a variety of functions including Communications, Legal and Commercial forging the foundations for Trainline’s future commercial development in Europe.
Purpose of the role:
- Reporting to the GR Director Europe, the role will strengthen Trainline’s (TL) voice and reputation in Spain, in support of the company’s growth plans.
- The objective is to positively impact the operating environment in TL key markets through the advancement of policy and regulatory goals with the Spanish government and other key institutions and audiences.
- Supporting development of strategy and leading execution of a clear GR tactical plan under the guidance of the GR Director, Europe closely with other internal functions, including legal and commercial, to advance TL interests through policy influencing and wider lobbying
- Ensuring Spanish GR activity is closely aligned to commercial goals across key markets
- Measurable movement of sentiment among targeted political, regulatory, business and stakeholder audiences.
Responsibilities:
- Build understanding and monitoring together with the GR Director Europe, of the public policy development process in Spain, specifically tying into the advancement of our growth goals in wider markets.
- Influencing the development of Spanish policy as it relates to independent rail retailers through a focused and sustained programme of GR activities, developing detailed market-by-market tactical plans.
- Acting together with the GR Director Europe as lead representative of TL in interaction with identified political, regulatory, commercial and media audiences in Spain.
- Developing and operating a clear network of contacts to advance TL goals, including, but not limited to, Government, Parliament, relevant trade associations, Spanish railway authority, think tanks, commentators, and media.
- Ability to personally drive thought leadership through speeches, events, written and oral content.
- Advising and advocating with internal TL audiences at senior, peer, and junior levels.
- Developing clear OKRs and measurement techniques to demonstrate impact on key audiences.
- The role is a key part of the business and is critical to company performance in the Spanish market. Ability to be effective in this space is essential to the company’s broader commercial performance.
- Develop and execute communications plans to support general business processes and events (for example, acquisitions and disposals, re-structuring, operating model changes etc) that will enhance reputation and drive value for stakeholders.
Knowledge & Experience:
You have at least 8 years of experience in a similar role. Track record of advocating in Spain. Proven network of personal contacts in the mobility sector at senior levels of political, regulatory, media and commercial organisations.- Gravitas to operate at a senior level internally in advising the CEO, Chief Corporate Affairs Officer, GR Director Europe and others. Externally proven ability to engage senior political, regulatory, media and commercial audiences.
- Commercial acumen. Clear evidence of having operated under a commercial imperative in the mobility sector.
- Skilled influencer and leader with seniors, peer group and junior colleagues.
- Highly driven and ambitious. Comfortable working within disruptive organisations seeking rapid growth, opening markets, and challenging incumbents.
We value open expression at Trainline, we believe it’s the diversity of experience, backgrounds and perspectives of our employees that makes us who we are. We encourage everybody to play a part in changing the way people travel across the world.
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