Job ref: 190438
TPR grade: R&O grade 7 - Lead Specialist
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 £2trn 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
Automatic Enrolment (AE) ensures that eligible jobholders can save for their retirement. Thanks to AE, over 80% of eligible employees are now saving into workplace pensions. That's over 10 million people who are contributing to their future.
AE run an end-to-end operation that includes communications, customer support, investigations, and enforcement.
In 2021 the AE Change team in-sourced services as part of a major AE transformation programme. Since then, we have prioritised:
- improvements to our data architecture and IT infrastructure
- a focus on service-led and optimisation of AE employer journeys
- continuous delivery of improvements to existing processes and solutions to new business requirements
We deliver these changes while maintaining AE's existing successful business operations.
We are recruiting a Senior Project Manager to deliver ambitious change for Auto-Enrolment.
We are looking for proven Project Management experience and knowledge of Agile best practice. The successful candidate will join our strong and high performing AE Change team. They will play a key role in structuring and delivering aspects of our strategic change pipeline.
Responsibilities
You will:
- prepare project business cases, including budgets and benefits, to enable stakeholders to make clear investment decisions
- control spend against agreed budgets to maximise Return On Investment
- apply Agile philosophy to deliver benefits to the business at the earliest opportunity
- work closely with internal teams (and any third-party suppliers) to ensure outcomes are delivered within time, cost and quality tolerances
- implement appropriate governance structures
- manage projects to successful conclusion, employing best practice planning and risk management techniques
- demonstrate high standards of stakeholder management at all times and with all levels
- maintain project controls and transparently manage changes to time, cost, or quality (consistent with our corporate standards)
- foster an effective team culture and encouraging collaboration and team working
- ensure adherence to corporate standards, such as data security and procurement practice
- act professionally in a way that enhances the high reputation of the AE Change team
Essential and desirable criteria
- Accredited to Practitioner level in an industry acknowledged Project management and/or Agile framework Methodology (or equivalent experience).
Demonstrable experience of:
- clear and objective articulation of the case for a potential project. Able to remain agnostic whether the project should progress
- product implementation with focus on end users and end-to-end services
- enabling collaboration and product transition activities
- proposed combining with the existing points on stakeholder management and leading projects
- delivering change using Agile methodologies, such as Scrum
- delivery within a wider pipeline of change
- handling complex relationships between projects and within a matrix management approach
- leadership of project/product/service teams involving complex data and workflows
- stakeholder management and facilitation at all levels. Able to conclude discussions with multiple collaborators (including those with conflicting views) by building consensus and clarify ambiguity
- Microsoft Azure DevOps or similar tools for planning
Person specification
- A 'can do' approach.
- Negotiation skills.
- Calm under pressure.
- Communication skills at all levels.
- Leadership skills.
Salary and benefits
As well as a salary between £53,267 and £68,063, 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 190438 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. If you want your application to be considered as part of a job share, please apply with the hours you are available to work.
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.
The Pensions Regulator 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).
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.