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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 Strategic Business Manager within the Market Oversight directorate, you will play a key role in supporting the effective running of the directorate and helping senior leaders deliver their priorities.
Working closely with Directors, you will combine high-quality executive support with strategic coordination, ensuring they are well prepared for meetings, engagements and decision-making.
You will help coordinate activity across teams, support business planning, track progress against key priorities and ensure important actions are followed through.
The role also involves preparing briefings, gathering and synthesising information, coordinating governance meetings and maintaining strong relationships with colleagues and external stakeholders.
Through your work, you will act as a central point of coordination, helping ensure that directorate activity is well organised, connected and delivered effectively.
This is an opportunity to contribute to The Pensions Regulator’s objectives while developing your own skills and experience.
You will collaborate with colleagues across the organisation, gain valuable insight into strategic decision-making and support leaders in delivering work that helps protect savers and promotes a well-run pensions system
This role is ideal for someone who:
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Enjoys combining organisation and coordination with strategic thinking.
- Likes working closely with senior leaders and supporting key priorities.
- Values building effective relationships with a wide range of colleagues and stakeholders.
- Thrives when balancing a variety of operational and strategic tasks.
- Is motivated by improving ways of working and helping teams deliver their objectives.
You will:
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Strong experience providing administrative or executive support at a senior level, including diary, document and meeting management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to draft clear, concise and accurate briefings.
- Ability to quickly absorb and synthesise information to support director decision-making.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond flexibly in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience working autonomously while maintaining high standards of delivery.
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to work collaboratively and professionally with colleagues at all levels.
- Ability to build strong and effective relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, including Ministerial office, senior civil servants and colleagues across Government and the wider public sector.
- High degree of discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive matters.
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].
