The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.
Role title: Data Analysis Manager
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 7 & Digital
Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology
Salary: £63,213.00 Per Annum
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
The role and responsibilities
We are looking for someone to ensure framework for measuring the success and performance of TPR continues to both drive and reflect the implementation of our Data Strategy and TPR’s wider objectives. The postholder will ensure TPR continues to demonstrate best practice in measuring and forecasting operational performance and relevant external landscape changes and enabling others to improve performance and set future priorities and approaches. This person will oversee the delivery of MI and analysis reporting at all levels and audiences, including TPR Board, ensuring it is as user centric as possible and supports the key discussions and decisions.
This role will work closely with stakeholders and delivery partners (including broader TPR and DWP) to use MI and analysis to build shared understanding of landscape changes, identify emerging risks and ensure these are used to inform operational, policy and strategy decisions.
This postholder will also be a function leader within TPR’s wider analytical community, they will work with function leaders from TPR’s other analytics teams, to ensure there is a strong and coherent analytics capability and architecture across TPR.
This role will involve the following responsibilities.
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Role responsible for day-to-day delivery of analytics and performance services, ensuring quality and timeliness of delivery across business, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation. This will include line management and leadership of a team of approx. 6-7 analysts.
- Own and maintain the overall performance framework ensuring it reflects and drives progress towards TPR’s strategic priorities and objectives.
- Accountable to Data Management Lead to deliver performance measurement, MI, modelling and forecasting required to underpin the good running and future planning of other functions in TPR.
- The role manages meeting the analysis needs of internal and external stakeholders. Attend Operational Analytics Group, DWP Pensions Analytics/Insight forums and other data-analytics
- Deputise for the Data Management Lead role when required and maintain a working knowledge of all areas of ELG and MO to effectively communicate with a range of stakeholders.
The role criteria
You will:
Essential
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Educated to degree level in mathematics / statistics / sciences or equivalent background.
- Customer focused individual, able to build strong working relationships with other managers and teams at all levels including Executives.
- Advanced SQL coding skills using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Power Bi.
- Experience of developing cohesive quantitative performance frameworks, anchored in data and analytics, that drive and reflect business priorities.
- Knowledge of analysis and modelling techniques such as regression and time series analysis.
- Extensive knowledge of data visualisation techniques.
- Extensive experience in designing and delivering performance measures.
- Ability to develop and improve analytics and MI products that improve business performance.
- Ability to communicate complex analytics in a clear and cogent manner, appropriate to the audience (including at Director and Board levels); referencing this against business needs; and succinctly explaining its relevance/significance.
- Ability to motivate and enhance the delivery of own team, peers and other stakeholders.
- Experience of Azure DevOps and Git repositories.
Desirable
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Practitioner experience with Python, R.
- Experience of project management.
- Sound (but not expert) understanding of the UK business environment, pensions market and the UK regulatory system.
Person Specification
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Proactive and flexible: Independently manage the team workload and schedules using Agile methodology, ensuring products are delivered in a timely manner, resolving any conflicting priorities.
- Problem solving and analytical skills: proactively identify areas where MI development is needed. Liaise with business owners validate those potential information requirements before allocating work to the MI team.
- Assess MI requests against existing products in Power BI and evaluate the value of the potential output against MI resource requirement. If request is deemed relevant, decide whether new work is required or if existing products can be enhanced to meet the information needs of the customer.
- Communication skills at all levels: Develop an understanding of ELG and MO operations to identify any potential gaps in MI product offering and proactively offer and implement MI solutions to advance efficiency of these operations.
- Attention to detail and accuracy
- Leadership skills
- Work in collaboration with other data teams across TPR to successfully implement the Data Strategy launched in March 2025.
The team
TPR offers:
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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).
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.
Our culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
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.
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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.
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.
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 [email protected].
