Senior Product Manager

Job summary

You will play a pivotal leadership role in transforming The Pensions Regulator (TPR) and the wider pensions landscape.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will operate at the centre of Digital, Data and Technology, working closely with policy, regulatory and operational teams to shape outcomes from early policy intent through to delivery.

With major regulatory change underway, you will have a unique opportunity to improve the lives of millions of people across the UK as they save for and live through retirement.

As one of two Senior Product Managers, you will lead a complex portfolio of services, taking accountability for strategy, delivery and outcomes.

You will lead on both external and internal services. This includes shaping and transforming external services that enable schemes, employers and trustees to meet regulatory obligations, access accounts and interact digitally with TPR, as well as providing guidance to help users understand and meet their responsibilities.

You will also lead internal services that enable effective regulation, including supervision and enforcement, stakeholder relationship management, and data-driven decision making. This includes shaping the platforms and tools that underpin how TPR operates, enabling teams to collaborate effectively and deliver outcomes for savers at scale.

Job description

• As a Senior Product Manager, you will lead the transformation of digital services, championing innovation, and strategic alignment. You will lead cross-functional teams, manage Product Managers, and ensure our products deliver exceptional value to users and stakeholders.

• You will also be responsible for strategic prioritisation at Portfolio level, working alongside senior delivery leads to support financial decision making, ensuring resources are optimally aligned to support delivery capabilities and strategic goals.

• You will lead senior stakeholder engagement for the portfolio, ensuring alignment to strategy while balancing short term delivery.

• You will be responsible for developing key elements of product capability within TPR, promoting high standards and leading initiatives to enhance the service offering Product Manager experience and pathways.

Person specification

Strategic Leadership & Product Ownership

• Experience leading complex product portfolios at a senior level
• Ability to define and deliver product vision, strategy and outcomes
• Experience leading full product lifecycles, prioritising based on value and impact
• Ability to make clear, data-driven decisions balancing value and risk

Agile, Lean & Operational Excellence

• Strong experience working in Agile and Lean environments across teams
• Ability to drive efficient delivery and navigate complexity and ambiguity

User-Centred Design & Value Delivery

• Ability to champion user needs using research, data and insight
• Experience building business cases and delivering measurable outcomes
• Focus on solving end-to-end service and organisational challenges

Stakeholder Engagement & Communication

• Experience engaging and influencing senior stakeholders
• Ability to communicate complex ideas clearly to support decisions
• Ability to motivate teams by connecting work to purpose and impact

DDaT & Technical Collaboration

• Understanding of digital, data and cross-functional delivery environments
• Experience working with data services and modern technology, including Microsoft platforms (M365, Dynamics 365, Azure data platform, Power Platform) and other technologies

Team Development & Innovation

• Experience developing teams and building capability
• Curious, adaptable and motivated to improve how teams work

Delivery Planning & Prioritisation

• Experience managing roadmaps and prioritising work based on impact and outcomes

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £85,126, Pensions Regulator contributes £24,661 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Reporting to the Head of Product, you will be a core part of TPR’s growing Product community. You will lead and manage members of the Product team directly, while also working with and influencing colleagues across Digital, Data and Technology and the wider organisation.

You will work across multidisciplinary teams delivering high-impact services, helping to shape how Product operates across TPR and how we deliver value at scale. This includes regular engagement with Heads of Department and senior stakeholders, including executive-level leaders, to shape strategy, define outcomes and drive delivery.

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.

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, Mental Health, Women’s).

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

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.

Please note that TPR is unable to offer visa sponsorship. All applicants must already hold Right to Work in the UK for the duration of their employment. For more information on Right to Work, please visit Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK.

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 essential criteria will be an offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.

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

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

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.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).

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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