Automotive Lead

🫵 Role: Automotive Lead

📍 Location: Brussels (Ixelles)

📅 Deadline for applications: 21/06/2026, at midnight

Job Description

Want to help clean up car manufacturing and shape the future of the automotive industry?

Transport & Environment (T&E), Europe’s leading clean transport think tank and campaign group, is looking for a passionate and strategic senior expert to drive the transition towards clean electric car manufacturing.

As Automotive Lead, you will drive forward T&E’s work on the global transformation of the automotive sector towards electric vehicles. This is a unique opportunity to lead T&E's work on automotive industry accountability, engage with key industry players and policy-makers, take part in high profile public activities, and push for systemic change in the automotive industry.

Key responsibilities:

• Automotive transition accountability: Lead T&E’s work as the global automotive industry watchdog, tracking automaker EV readiness, strategies, and progress. Develop public facing reports and narratives.

• Global strategic leadership: Expand T&E’s reach beyond the EU, assessing EV adoption trends and policies in China, the US, and emerging markets.

• Strategic advisory: Provide guidance and briefings to the Brussels and national teams, ensuring T&E’s advocacy is rooted in deep industrial reality.

• Project coordination: Coordinate projects on automotive transformation, working across teams, T&E members, and national experts.

• Policy and advocacy: Shape EU policy by designing and executing advocacy strategies. Support the building and implementation of national strategies in key national markets, such as France, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK and Poland.

• Narrative and public messaging: Craft compelling political narratives, engage in high-profile public activities, including media and political communications.

• Stakeholder representation: Represent T&E in external engagements, building partnerships with EU policymakers, industry stakeholders, and NGOs.

The successful candidate should meet the following requirements:

Essential requirements:

• At least 3-5 years of relevant experience in industry, or automotive policy.

• Industry expertise: experience within the automotive industry, or a consultancy. Ideally working on automotive policies and has a good understanding of how policies affect the automotive industry.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills: ability to work with policymakers, industry experts, and NGOs.

• Analytical & strategic thinking: ability to grasp complex issues and translate them into clear, actionable recommendations.

• Project management skills: experience managing programs across multiple teams.

• Excellent communication skills: able to break down technical content for different audiences and crafting clear, impactful messages for the media, policymakers, and the public.

• Enjoys working in a team environment.

• Enjoys scoping new projects.

Good to have:

• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder coalitions or projects.

• Ability to develop and implement strategic policy positions.

The position will be primarily based in Brussels but would involve occasional travel.

The deadline for applications is the 21th of June. To apply, send in your CV and motivation letter at jobs.transportenvironment.org.

About Us

Transport & Environment is Europe’s leading clean transport think tank and campaign group. We combine the power of robust evidence and a deep understanding of the transport sector with compelling communications and impactful advocacy. T&E will commit to your professional development and invest in training from your first day with the organization. Our people work across Europe and Asia: we have offices in Brussels, Rome, Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Warsaw, London, and Singapore.