Senior Manager – Assessment, Analysis & Collection - £57,028 p.a. + benefits

Job summary

We are currently looking for a Senior Manager – Assessment, Analysis & Collection to join our Criminal Enforcement Unit Function within the Safety & Surveillance group.

This is a full-time opportunity, on a permanent basis. The role is a home-based role but will require occasional travel to 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf London, E14 4PU or South Mimms, Hertfordshire. Please be aware that this role can only be worked in the UK and not overseas.

Who are we?

The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency enhance and improve the health of millions of people every day through the effective regulation of medicines and medical devices, underpinned by science and research.

The Criminal Enforcement Unit is a dedicated law enforcement function within the MHRA, leading interventions to tackle the most serious criminal threats to the public from the illegal sale and supply of medicines and medical devices.

MHRA’s Criminal Enforcement Unit (CEU) is a multi-disciplinary function that sits within the Safety and Surveillance Group. The Group brings together into a single integrated structure, devices and medicines safety expertise with criminal enforcement capabilities. The CEU takes action to protect the public by preventing, disrupting and detecting the illegal trade in human medicines and medical devices.

Job description

What’s the role?

The postholder is the head of profession for intelligence assessment and analysis within the MHRA’s Criminal Enforcement Unit. They lead a small team of analysts and researchers and provide strategic direction and operational leadership.

The main purpose of the role is to lead Assessment, Analysis and Collection (AAC) – one of five teams within the CEU function, delivering multiple capabilities enabling it to meet its strategic aim. AAC sits at the centre of the CEU, setting and maintaining its high-level direction and informing decision-making. The strategic insight derived from the work of AAC is the engine driving the Agency’s criminal threat reduction activity. The postholder is the strategic intelligence lead for the MHRA Criminal Enforcement Unit and head of profession for intelligence assessment.

Key responsibilities:

• As the analysis and assessment professional lead, guiding intelligence collection to fill gaps in strategic understanding, strengthening the use of structured analytical techniques, and innovating solutions to challenging intelligence problems.

• Maintaining and articulating a comprehensive, persuasive and intelligence-based single picture of the criminal threat from medicines and medical devices related offending, to set the direction of the CEU, inform decision-making and drive criminal threat reduction activity.

• Leading for the CEU on the production of the Medicines Crime Strategic Threat Assessment, annual control strategy, Strategic Intelligence Requirement (SIR) and ad hoc assessed intelligence products ensuring these meet professional standards and provide robust judgement and insight.

Person specification

Who are we looking for?

Our successful candidate will have the following:

Essential criteria

• Delivery of Strategic Threat and Risk Assessments to better understand the factors that contribute to crime.

• Devising strategies to assist in the detection, prevention, targeting and disruption of criminal threats.

• Managing delivery of Strategic and Tactical Tasking and Coordination Group functions.

• Coordinating intelligence support to criminal investigations including tactical assessments and problem profiles.

• Stakeholder engagement and communication.

Desirable criteria

We are especially keen to hear from candidates who have experience in one or more of the following areas in a law enforcement environment:

• Prioritisation of resources based on the Management of Risk in Law Enforcement process (MoRiLE)

• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships across internal departments, external stakeholders and law enforcement agencies.

• Supervising multiple operational support functions including criminal enforcement deployments, covert deployments and the responding to crime and incident referrals.

Person Specification:

See Job Description

Method of assessment: A=Application, I=Interview, T=Test, P=Presentation

Behaviour Criteria:

• Seeing the Big Picture (I)

• Leadership (I)

• Communicating and Influencing (I, P)

Experience Criteria:

• Substantial recent experience in supervising and quality assuring the production of all- source assessed intelligence products (including strategic threat assessments), annual control strategies and Strategic Intelligence Requirements. (A, I)

• Recent experience of successfully applying the principles of the National Intelligence Model to the collection, development and use of criminal intelligence. (A)

• Significant recent experience of using structured analytical techniques in all-source intelligence assessment and analysis sufficient to oversee the delivery of this capability and to perform the role of head of profession for the Agency. (A, I, T)

Technical Criteria:

• Recent recognised formal training (GIAT or equivalent) in strategic intelligence assessment and analysis or recently evidenced competence to ‘advanced’ level against the PHIA Professional Development Framework (A)

• Competence to ‘advanced practitioner’ level against core GCFP professional standards (intelligence) and ‘practitioner’ level against their ‘manager’ standards (A)

• Strong working knowledge of the principles of the National Intelligence Model, the authorisation procedures of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (and related legislation) and criminal disclosure (A, I)

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills and a proven ability to write well-focused, penetrating reports fully independently, that articulate complex matters clearly and concisely in a way that aids comprehension (A, T, P)

If you would like to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, please read our Job Description and Person Specification!

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Benefits

Alongside your salary of £57,028, Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency contributes £16,521 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

• Annual Leave: 25 days annual leave on entry, rising by one day for each completed year of service to a maximum of 30 days and pro-rata for part-time staff. PLUS 8 bank holidays
• Privilege Leave: 1 day
• Hours of Work: 37 hours (net) per week for full time staff in all geographical locations, including London and pro rata for part-time staff
• Occupational Sick Pay (OSP): One month full pay/one month half pay on entry, rising by one month for each completed year of service to a maximum of five months full pay/five months half pay
• Mobility: Mobility clause in contracts allowing staff to be mobile across the Civil Service
• Civil Service Pension Scheme. Please see the link for further information http://www.civilservicepensionscheme.org.uk/ For enquiries relating to the Civil Service Pension Schemes please contact MyCSP's Pension Service Centre directly on 0300 123 6666
• Flexible working to ensure staff maintain a healthy work-life balance
• Interest free season ticket loan or bike loan
• Employee Assistance Services and access to the Civil Service Benevolent Fund
• Eligibility to join the Civil Service Motoring Association (CSMA)
• Variety of staff and Civil Service clubs
• On-going learning and development

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

The selection process:

We use the Civil Service Success Profiles to assess our candidates, find out more here.

• Online application form, including questions based on the Behaviour, Experience and Technical Success Profiles. Please ensure all application questions are completed in full; your application may not be considered if any responses are left blank. Our applications are CV blind, and our Hiring Managers will not be able to access your CV when reviewing your application.

• Test, further information will be supplied when you reach this stage

• Presentation, to be prepared as part of your interview, with further information being supplied when you reach this stage.

• Interview, which can include questions based on the Behaviour, Experience, Technical and Strengths Success Profiles.

Applicants are assessed on whether they meet any mandatory requirements as well as the necessary skills and experience for the role. Applications are scored based on the competency-based answers provided – ensure you have read these thoroughly and allow sufficient time. You can view the competencies for this role in the job description.

If you require any disability related adjustments at any point during the process, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk as soon as possible.

Closing date: 25 January 2026

Shortlisting date: From 26 January 2026

Interview date: w/c 09 February 2026

Candidates will be contacted within a week of the sift and the interviews completed to inform them of the outcome.

If you need assistance applying for this role or have any other questions, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk

Candidates will be subject to UK immigration requirements as well as Civil Service nationality rules. Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here.

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks. People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Certain roles within the MHRA will require post holders to have vaccinations, and in some circumstances, routine health surveillance. These roles include:

• Laboratory-based roles working directly with known pathogens

• Maintenance roles, particularly those required to work in laboratory settings

• Roles that involve visiting other establishments where vaccination is required

• Roles required to travel overseas where specific vaccination may be required.

Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment. A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.

Any move to the MHRA from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax-Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility here.

Successful candidates may be subject to annual Occupational Health reviews dependent on role requirements. If you have any queries, please contact careers@mhra.gov.uk.

In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should firstly contact Florentina Oyelami, Head of Talent Acquisition, Florentina.Oyelami@mhra.gov.uk.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk

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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

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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.The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

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).

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Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Tim Duffield
• Email : Tim.Duffield@mhra.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : Careers@mhra.gov.uk

Further information

In accordance with the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles our recruitment and selection processes are underpinned by the requirement of selection for appointment on the basis of merit by a fair and open competition. If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact the Resourcing Team at Careers@mhra.gov.uk, in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission at: civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk - info@csc.gov.uk - Civil Service Commission Room G/8 1 Horse Guards Road London SW1A 2HQ