Director, Global Industry (f/m/d)

Your responsibilities include

As a member of the senior leadership team, you will:

• Shape the organisation's strategy for the global industry programme, with accountability for analytical quality, geographic reach, and policy relevance.
• Lead and manage the global industry team, currently comprising around 25 staff, and work closely with regional directors on industry work across the organisation.
• Lead the programme’s analytical agenda across industry strategy, techno-economics, clean technologies and power, fuels and feedstocks integration, trade and standards, supply chain resilience, climate policy, industrial finance, lead markets, and the development implications of industrial transition.
• Shape international cooperation on industrial transformation, working through relevant multilateral initiatives (including G20 Industrial Decarbonisation Agenda, Climate Club, the Global Green Industrialisation Agenda, JETPs, IEA ministerial processes) to advance concrete policy design, lead market creation, financing mechanisms and cross-border coordination.
• Build a coherent global industry programme in close collaboration with regional directors, aligning priorities and sharing knowledge so that analytical work remains connected to the implementation realities of industrial system transformation on the ground.
• Represent the industry programme to governments, funders, industry associations, development institutions, and think tank partners at global and national levels.
• Manage research quality, publication output, and stakeholder communication, including media relations and expert positioning.
• Build and manage the budget, identify new funding opportunities, and develop funder relationships in support of the expanded programme.

We are looking for

• At least 15 years of relevant professional experience, including several years of management experience in an international setting with team leadership across multiple geographies.
• Strong strategic leadership on industrial transformation, including how climate policy, industrial development, competition policy, industry finance, and supply chain resilience interact, with deep expertise in at least one major area of industrial transition.
• Understanding of how industrial policy domains interact with development objectives and ability to engage credibly with policymakers across multiple regional contexts.
• Familiarity with multilateral governance processes (G20, JETP, international standards bodies) and multilateral development finance.
• Familiarity with political processes and understanding of how political decision-makers think; ability to develop and represent complex and nuanced positions across diverse institutional contexts, and proven ability to turn analytical work into policy influence.
• Collaborative leadership style appropriate for a think tank: setting direction while respecting research autonomy.
• Motivating personality who can inspire systemic, integrative thinking and work effectively across geographies and institutional cultures.
• Strong and diverse international network spanning policymakers, industry associations, funders, development finance institutions, and civil society.
• Meaningful networks in at least one major non-EU geography (India, Southeast Asia, US, Latin America, or China)
• Fluent written and spoken English; other language skills valued, particularly Hindi, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, or Southeast Asian languages.
• Willingness and ability to travel frequently across the programme’s priority regions and multilateral forum locations.

We assume there are excellent candidates for this role who do not meet all criteria listed above. Maybe you have certain skills we have not thought of yet? Tell us why you are the right person for this job.

What we offer

• A high-impact senior leadership role in a mission-driven international organisation at the frontier of global industrial transformation policy.
• A diverse, international working environment with flat communication and decision-making hierarchies.
• Access to offices in Berlin, Brussels, Bangkok, Beijing and Washington for regular in-person collaboration with the team, with hybrid working options with good digital facilities.
• Flexible working hours and vacation entitlement significantly above statutory requirements.
• Professional development, a health & wellness package depending on the country of employment and access to mental health and coaching support.
• Permanent employment contract.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Support with visa and work permit applications if required.

How to apply

We look forward to receiving your application until1 st of November 2026 via the Agora website. We want an energy transition for everyone from everyone. Therefore, we are particularly pleased to receive applications from people from groups that have been underrepresented in energy and industry policy so far. We welcome applications regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability and age, and sexual orientation. For reasons of objectivity, we ask that you refrain from submitting an application photo. As part of this, we are soliciting anonymous information on a voluntary basis regarding our applicant’s backgrounds. This information will be used only to inform future recruitment strategies and will not impact hiring decisions in any form. Your input will not be forwarded to third parties and will not be used in connection with your application. Please follow this link to participate in the survey.

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About us

Agora Energiewende, Agora Industry and Agora Agriculture develop evidence-based strategies for ensuring the success of clean energy, industry and agricultural transitions around the globe. As an independent and non-partisan think tank and policy laboratory, we analyse upcoming challenges, share knowledge with decision-makers and stakeholders and enable a productive exchange of ideas.