Operational Business Manager

Job summary

Role title: Operational Business Manager

TPR grade & pay group: Grade 7, Core pay group

Directorate: Strategy, Policy and Analysis

Salary: £54,074 per annum plus excellent benefits package, and flexible working arrangements

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office

About The Pensions Regulator

With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.

Find out more about us.

Job description

The role and responsibilities

Join The Pensions Regulator as Operational Business Manager guiding and supporting the leadership team of Evidence and External Risk in delivering strategic, risk-based, evidence, research and pension insights to shape regulatory outcomes. Reporting to the Director of Evidence and External Risk, you’ll drive forward the agenda and business priorities for the three teams and shape cross-functional projects to ensure that E&ER deliver high quality, on-time support to the pensions and regulatory landscape.

The role demands a broad understanding of pensions and strategy and how we leverage this in the evidence and risk areas. The role also requires someone with excellent organisation skills, ability to interact across senior leadership and the ability and willingness to challenge senior members of staff.

This is a pivotal role for someone passionate about protecting savers and shaping the future of pensions regulation and in delivering the evidence and risk basis for our work.

Person specification

The role criteria

• Extensive operational management experience including demonstrable experience in setting priorities, goals, objectives, identifying risks, mitigations and timescales.
• Strong track record of leading or steering cross functional and complex work programmes including budgeting, planning, resourcing and setting and delivering good outcomes.
• Broad understanding in UK pensions, including defined benefit schemes and defined contribution, investment, investment, funding, trusteeship, administration and governance and understanding of how to shape strategy is essential.
• Very strong written and verbal communication skills, producing and using reports to gain support for key messages and to help in senior decision making. Having the confidence and experience to effectively and sensitively review the work of other, often more senior colleagues.
• Positive and flexible approach. A self-starter with proven ability to foster collaboration, innovation, quality assurance, continuous improvement and implementing improvements as and when needed.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and influencing skills, including at senior and executive levels.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,074, Pensions Regulator contributes £15,665 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

TPR offers:

• Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
• A values-led, inclusive environment.
• Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
• A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Women’s).

Reward and benefits

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

Applications

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.

Selection and interview

If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the criteria outlined in the ‘what you will bring’ section will be offered an interview.

Diversity and inclusion

TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.

Further information

Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees.

If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).

Apply and further information

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk
• Email : recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk