The Pensions Regulator
Digital Lead (Value for Money)
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Role title: Digital Lead (Value for Money)
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 4 & Digital
Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology
Salary: £95,680.00 Per Annum
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract: 12 Months
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (8 days per month in the office)
The Role And Responsibilities
Value for Money (VfM) is one of the most significant reforms in UK pensions, designed to improve transparency, accountability and outcomes for millions of savers by enabling consistent assessment of how well pension schemes deliver value. The Pensions Regulator is leading the delivery of a new digital and data service at pace, working in partnership with the Financial Conduct Authority to implement an ambitious and high-profile regulatory regime. This role offers a rare opportunity to shape a major national data collection and regulatory service, delivering complex digital capabilities to demanding timescales that will have a lasting impact on the pensions industry and the retirement outcomes of savers
The Value for Money (VFM) Digital Lead is responsible for the design and delivery of the digital solution for this important regulatory initiative.
This senior role will have accountability for the delivery of the digital solution for this regulatory service. They will ensure the digital service is designed, implemented and delivered to meet policy intent and adheres to TPR’s data and technology standards. The design and delivery of the digital solution is an integral part of the end-to-end service to meet internal and external user needs.
The postholder will work closely with the policy, product, architecture, data and delivery teams, managing the overall roadmap and delivery plan and ensuring any risks and issues are communicated quickly and mitigants are created and actively managed. They will work closely with the Directors of Digital, Data and Technology.
The postholder will play a key role in managing the joint digital delivery of the VFM solution working with other regulatory bodies, ensuring alignment of approach, design and delivery across organisations. This includes leading engagement, supporting joint governance, and ensuring that risks, issues and decisions are effectively managed across organisational boundaries.
The role will work closely with the VFM senior delivery manager, (who leads on the overall programme plan and governance) and the VFM product, data and delivery managers.
The role requires close working across digital, data, and technology teams, and the ability to manage complexity, dependencies and stakeholder relationships in a structured and transparent way.
Extensive experience in leading matrixed teams to design and deliver complex digital transformation initiatives through agile delivery. 10-15 years’ experience in product management and delivery required. Solid understanding of regulatory data collection, data quality and data standards, with the ability to ensure data is captured consistently, accurately and in ways that supports effective regulatory decision-making.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience of leading user centered digital product, design and delivery in complex environments.
- Experience of leading matrixed teams to design and deliver data-enabled digital solutions.
- Experience working in Senior multi-stakeholder delivery environments and organisations.
- Experience managing senior regulatory stakeholder relationships.
- Experience identifying potential risks and proactively managing these.
- Understanding of data governance, regulatory data requirements and user centered design.
- Strong communication and influencing skills.
- Understanding of technology dependencies including cyber security and risk management.
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Accountability
- Delivery of VFM Digital Solution
- Assure delivery of the VFM digital solution to agreed scope, timelines and quality
- Communicate and manage risks and issues quickly
- Manage the digital, data and technology plan, working closely with the overall programme lead.
Joint Delivery with the Financial Conduct Authority
- Lead TPR’s digital engagement within the joint VFM programme with the FCA, working closely with TPR’s Director of Digital and the VFM programme delivery lead.
- Maintain effective working relationships with FCA counterparts
- Ensure alignment on delivery approach, design and timelines
- Support joint governance, risks and issue management
Design Authority and Decision Making
- Ensure key design decisions are identified and governed
- Escalate decisions where required
Cross-Programme Alignment
- Work with the project team to manage dependencies and alignment across initiatives
Risk and Issue Management
- Identify and manage delivery risks and issues
Stakeholder Engagement
- Collaborate and bring together organisations
- Provide updates on progress, risks and decisions
- Senior stakeholder engagement within TPR, working at Director and Executive Director levels
Continuous Improvement
- Work with the Delivery Lead to identify any delivery approaches and practices which can be improved.
The team
TPR Offers
- Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
- A values-led, inclusive environment.
- Hybrid working and flexible 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.
Find Out What Benefits a Civil Service Pension Provides.
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
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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 is 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 recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk.
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