Job ref: 222351
TPR grade: R&O Grade 6
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
This is a key role within the new central Corporate Planning Team. You will build and manage critical partnerships across TPR, working with Executive Directors and their teams to build strategic priorities into one integrated TPR plan, monitoring and reporting performance and progress to the Executive Committee and Board.
Working closely with our transformation and finance colleagues and the Strategy, Policy and Analysis team, you will play a major part in the design and implementation of TPR's central planning function. You'll have responsibility for managing, measurement and reporting against our annual and medium-term enterprise-wide plans, including leading key outputs such as the Corporate Plan, Business Plan and ARA.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage critical partnerships across TPR, working with Executive Directors and their teams to build strategic priorities into one integrated TPR plan, monitoring and reporting performance and progress to the Executive Committee and Board.
- Partner with our transformation and finance colleagues and the Strategy, Policy and Analysis team to shape and embed transformation through corporate planning, measurement and reporting.
- Take a significant role in the design and implementation of TPR's central planning function, including developing effective use of data, digital and technology.
- Take responsibility for managing, measurement and reporting against TPR’s annual and medium-term enterprise-wide plans, including leading key outputs such as the Corporate Plan, Business Plan and ARA.
- Build and maintain effective relationships with key external partners to ensure visibility of plans and joined-up approaches to strategic priorities where appropriate.
Essential and desirable criteria
Essential
- Outstanding stakeholder management skills, able to build rapport, trust, communicate and influence effectively, through all levels of the organisation.
- Extensive communications experience, including the ability to develop and deliver internal engagement plans and content.
- Excellent communication skills written, oral and presentational with the ability to create outstanding workshop content and facilitate effectively.
- Knowledge of a variety of planning, measuring and reporting models.
- Analytical, financially and data literate, and comfortable in working with numbers.
- Demonstrable experience managing operational plans working across multiple stakeholders.
- Significant experience and knowledge in performance measurement and use of evaluation frameworks within planning.
- Track record of successfully implementing and managing corporate plans and performance management, with associated reporting and prioritisation.
- Ability to undertake highly unstructured work, systems thinking, be innovative and creative, and continually learn.
Desirable
- Broad knowledge of the pensions industry and landscape, operations and change management, regulation and its effective application to achieve organisational outcomes.
- Experience implementing software solutions in a business context.
- Background/experience working within or closely integrated with finance or management accounts.
Person specification
- Strong leadership and people management skills: Demonstrated ability to lead, inspire, and motivate a variety of different teams to achieve high performance and meet organisational goals.
- Communication skills: Excellent written and verbal communication skills for effective engagement with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Outstanding stakeholder relationship skills across a broad range of emergent and operational requirements, building rapport and credibility both inside and outside the organisation – including with senior stakeholders.
- Organisational skills: Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills, with the ability to work effectively across a range of tasks under pressure, working comfortably with emergent requirements.
- Planning, data and analytical: outstanding numeracy, data, analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Technological proficiency: Proficiency in using (potential) new software, Excel and other relevant technology.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary starting at £56,498, 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
- 25 days annual leave provision
- flexible working arrangements
- development opportunities
- enhanced parental leave arrangements
- a free employee assistance programme
- an excellent office location in Brighton
How to apply
To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 222351 along with:
- a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
- a copy of your CV
- details of your notice period
Current 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.
Applications will be considered on a part time and job share basis.
Please be aware, as we work within a hybrid environment, unless specified we will be holding interviews through Microsoft Teams for the foreseeable future.
In accordance with Home Office guidance, the successful candidate will be required to provide their right to work in the UK before they start employment. Unfortunately, TPR is not able to offer sponsorship at the time. TPR is a UK-based organisation with a working location in Brighton, candidates must live in the UK to be employed by us.
TPR is an arm’s length government body and part of the public service.
Any offer of employment will be subject to the receipt of satisfactory background screening checks and criminal record checks (BPSS).
Whilst it is our aim to respond to all applicants, if you have not heard from us within 21 days of the advert closing, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Specific feedback will only be provided if you have attended an interview or assessment.
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.