TPR grade: R&O Grade 3 - Director
About us
More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2 trillion of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.
Role
Our Chief People Officer will be a forward-thinking Human Resources (HR) professional who delivers strategic leadership, enabling our ambitious transformation plans by driving our people and culture agenda and delivering operational excellence through the People team and organisation wide strategies. You'll play a crucial role in crafting a high-performing organisation by promoting greater alignment, accountability, collaboration, and performance mindset. You'll lead our People Directorate with passion, assurance, commitment, and clarity, which empowers the teams and colleagues around you and inspires the organisation. You will also bring a structured, efficient, and effective approach, all whilst keeping people at the heart of any decision, strategy, policy, or change.
As TPR undergoes transformation, you’ll play a pivotal role in how we regulate and will be a key member of the Executive team, enabling us to deliver our vision. You'll own TPR’s employee value proposition (EVP) and lead the development and enhancement of the performance and growth mindset we seek, ensuring as an organisation we foster a learning culture which enables our executive team to support and develop our people. You’ll also help TPR move towards a more agile, flexible, and multi-disciplinary workforce to find the best resourcing solutions for our needs.
As a member of the Executive Committee and reporting to the Chief Operating Officer, the Chief People Officer will work closely with the Chief Executive Officer and the wider Board, providing strategic advice and guidance to the Executive Directors which enables the people and culture plans to be truly embedded and positively adopted within their Directorates.
You’ll be responsible for developing and implementing a people and culture strategy that supports our corporate strategy, fosters a dynamic, people-centric learning culture where our talent can thrive, and ensures our HR practices enable transformation whilst integrating new ways of working. As the Executive Lead for culture development, the post holder will take a holistic approach to building and strengthening culture and ensure our policies and practices align with our values and ambitions, including how we build and strengthen our risk-based, performance-centred approach to regulation.
Responsibilities
As Director of People and Culture, you’ll be responsible for:
- Strategic leadership – Based on the significant changes in the pensions landscape and our regulatory approach, design and develop a people and culture strategy, to enable the delivery of TPR’s strategic objectives. Ensure HR strategic and operational plans support the needs of the business and are flexible enough to cope with organisational changes and external factors. Work with the Executive team to develop a forward-looking plan to help us create the workforce, working culture and practices we need for the future. Own TPR’s EVP and lead the development and enhancement of the performance and growth mindset we seek in our people by championing talent development, learning culture and inclusive environment. Coach, inspire and mentor the People and Culture senior leadership team, providing clear advice, guidance, and feedback which aids their individual and collective development.
- People advisory and support – Provide professional HR advice to the Board and leadership of the people and associated functions, including workforce development, employee relations, and reward. Provide business partnering support to the Chair, CEO, and members of ExCo and Board on reputationally high-risk confidential TPR matters. Deliver an effective suite of human resource management policies, practices, tool kits, and processes that complement the current and future direction of the organisation and other external factors.
- Learning and development – devising and delivering outstanding Learning and Development capability, to enable our people to grow and develop with the right skills for the future.
- Operational excellence – Lead effectively under pressure an operationally excellent People team, with a strong outcome focussed delivery mindset, driving projects to completion within timescales and achieving expected outcomes. You will be responsible for ensuring the resourcing strategy is aligned to the workforce planning process, business demand, and the right processes and practices are effectively implemented.
- Culture and values – As the Executive Lead for culture development, take a holistic approach to building and strengthening our culture, conceiving a strategic approach, and implementing it, including by improving employee experience, amplifying employee voice, and overseeing action planning. Ensure our policies and practices align with our values and ambitions for building and strengthening our risk-based and performance-centred approach to regulation. Establish an effective and quantifiable approach to increase people management and change capability across the organisation. Work in partnership with the Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) committee to drive and champion change in the TPR D&I agenda. Demonstrate very strong ethics and a drive to put the organisation’s values at the heart of behaviours.
- Stakeholder Management – Maintain and develop strong effective relationships with DWP Partnership team and DWP HR team. Advise the Board, the remuneration and people committee (RAPCO) and Executive Committee on appropriate solutions to business problems specifically where these are people-related and identify those issues which require long-term solutions. Maintain and develop strong effective relationships with our Trade Union representatives.
- Data and Compliance – Accurate management of people data aligned with GDPR guidelines. Making use of data analytics to make critical business decisions and ensure the HR function is proactive in keeping up to date with best practices.
Essential criteria
Leadership
- Significant and demonstrable professional HR leadership experience at a senior strategic decision-making level in an organisation of equivalent or greater size to TPR (circa 1000 staff).
- Evidence-based track record of leading and delivering change in an organisation at the executive level.
- A resilient and inspirational leader with integrity at their core, able to create a clear sense of purpose and be inclusive of other stakeholders.
- Ability to communicate an inspiring vision and empower staff.
- Demonstrable leadership experience of creating, inspiring, and driving cultural change and service improvement.
- Demonstrates strong ethics, values, and behaviours consistent with the vision, culture, and values of TPR.
Policy, strategy, performance
- The ability to create and drive a sustainable organisation vision and strategy putting savers at the centre.
- An understanding of working landscape within a public-sector environment (experience working in the public sector may be helpful but not essential).
- Evidence of improving organisational performance through implementing a systematic approach to delivery and transformation based on collaboration and co-production with key partners.
- Experience working with trade unions and employee relations representatives, mediating, and managing relationships at the most senior levels.
- Extensive experience as an HR generalist who has the proven ability to utilise learning interventions and new technologies to support transformation.
Building culture
- Demonstrates ethics, values, and personal qualities consistent with the vision, culture, and values of TPR.
- Evidence of leading and inspiring system change and integrated working in an inclusive way where organisational values are integral to delivery and service improvement.
- Ability to challenge existing systems, practices, and processes to ensure and facilitate continuous improvement.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary of £110,000 to £140,000, we offer:
- Civil Service Pension arrangements, which are recognised as some of the best in the pensions world
- discretionary bonus arrangements
- access to performance related pay progression
- 30 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
People and Culture Team
Our People and Culture Team includes 37 colleagues and is structured around three key pillars to provide our people with better day to day services, more strategic partnering and support with talent acquisition and development.
How to apply
TPR are working in Partnership with Hays on this vacancy, and they will be handling all applications. To apply, please go to our page on the Hays microsite and follow the instructions in the page. When preparing your application, please refer to the full job description which includes the skills and experience required for this role.
Current TPR employees in their first 12 months of employment who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We are an inclusive employer and offer equal opportunities regardless of an individual’s age, disability, gender identity, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
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 for the job will be offered an interview.
If you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please state this in your application.