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Role title: Strategic Business Manager
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 8 - Specialist
Directorate: Market Oversight
Salary: £46,211 Per Annum
Contract type: Permanant
Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office
The role and responsibilities:
As a Strategic Business Manager within the Enforcement & Legal Group (ELG), you will play a key role in helping directors operate effectively and deliver on organisational priorities.
Combining high-quality executive support with strategic coordination, you will ensure directors are well prepared, well informed and able to focus on the work that matters most. You will manage diaries, meetings, correspondence and briefing materials, while also coordinating information, actions and priorities across the directorate.
Working closely with colleagues across ELG and the wider organisation, you will help maintain strong relationships, support governance processes and contribute to business planning activities. You will gather and synthesise information, prepare concise briefings, track key actions and support director-led initiatives.
By ensuring effective coordination and timely decision-making, your work will help strengthen the delivery of ELG’s objectives and support
The Pensions Regulator’s mission to protect savers, enhance the pensions system and support colleagues in delivering high-quality outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to build experience working alongside senior leaders while developing both operational and strategic skills.
This role is ideal for someone who:
- Enjoys combining organisation and coordination with opportunities to contribute to strategic priorities.
- Likes working closely with senior leaders and helping them make the best use of their time and information.
- Takes a proactive approach and enjoys anticipating needs, identifying issues and supporting solutions.
- Builds positive working relationships and enjoys collaborating with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.
- Is comfortable balancing detailed administrative responsibilities with broader business planning and coordination activities.
Essential Criteria:
- Experience providing administrative or executive support to senior leaders, including diary, meeting and document management.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to produce clear, concise and accurate briefings.
- Ability to quickly gather, understand and synthesise information to support decision-making.
- Experience managing competing priorities and working effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to work independently while responding flexibly to changing demands and priorities.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively with people at all levels.
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including senior colleagues and partners across government and the wider public sector.
- Experience handling sensitive and confidential information with discretion and sound judgement
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].
