IDA Ireland is the government inward investment and development agency for Ireland, focused on attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). We partner with global companies to establish and expand their operations in Ireland. Our team connects multinational companies to investment opportunities, market insights, and business environment analysis. IDA Ireland sets and achieves ambitious goals in the highly competitive arena of FDI as outlined in our Strategy, Adapt Intelligently: A Strategy for Sustainable Growth and Innovation 2025-29.

We deliver on objectives of Government and we work to deliver jobs and investments through collaboration with public bodies for the people of Ireland. In addition, we partner with clients to understand their requirements and to provide them with timely and innovative solutions.

IDA is now recruiting for the role of Executive Director. The role will report directly to the CEO and will work alongside the existing Executive Director and leadership team.

The successful candidate will be an innovative senior business leader with a broad and in-depth understanding of transformation within a global business environment and how Ireland’s FDI offering aligns with corporate business goals and objectives.

S/he will have senior management experience and have experience as a leader in a number of business sectors and functions. The individual must be truly passionate about helping Ireland to win on the international stage, be results driven, a strong team leader and committed to the vision, purpose and values of IDA. The role requires the capability for leading and driving the achievement of key business targets across a number of global client facing Divisions as well as IDA’s Corporate Services Division and its Property and Regional Enterprise Development Division.

This position will involve extensive domestic and international travel.