Shared Services Partnership
Trading Standards Team Manager
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Job Details
Job Reference: HCC624577
Salary Range: £48,948 - £54,423 per annum
Work Location: Unit 1 Bar End Industrial Estate, Winchester
Hours per week: 37
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing Date: 6 September 2026
Interview Date: 18 September 2026
The Role
Shape Change. Drive Excellence. Protect Hampshire
Are you an experienced Trading Standards professional ready to take on a strategic leadership role and help shape the future of regulatory services?
Hampshire Trading Standards Service is seeking an ambitious, innovative and forward-thinking Trading Standards Manager to join our Leadership Team at a pivotal time for the organisation. This is a unique opportunity to lead high-performing teams, drive service improvement, and influence how we protect consumers, support businesses and deliver public value across Hampshire. As we prepare for Local Government Reorganisation and the evolving challenges facing regulatory services, we're looking for a leader who is passionate about making a difference, embraces change, and is ready to help build a modern, intelligence-led service fit for the future.
Hampshire Trading Standards is a modern regulatory service enabling and promoting legislative compliance to support a fair and safe trading environment. We are proud to provide valuable support to residents and businesses in Hampshire through our work.
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What you’ll do
You will play a key role in the Leadership Team, using your professional knowledge, combined with local and national data and intelligence, to inform, shape and deliver a variety of interventions and investigations, targeting resources to best effect and ensuring that we deliver against our delivery plan and strategic priorities.
Your role within the team, working with colleagues, will shape the service and embed change, driving efficiency and best practice.
What we’re looking for
With specialist knowledge and experience, you will lead a multi-disciplinary team, working closely with the Head of Trading Standards and other colleagues and specialists across the service, to deliver a programme of work primarily in relation to Food, Feed and Animal Health. The role will require direct line management of Senior Trading Standards Officers within a team of Trading Standards Officers and Support Officers/Apprentices.
Why join us?
Hampshire County Council is recognised nationally as one of the highest performing local authorities in the UK. A modern, forward-looking local authority, it offers a pleasant, supportive, and collaborative working environment.
Hampshire County Council is also a flexible employer interested in making the most of your skills and offers a great work-life balance. We invest in you through our internal development programmes and training and offer a competitive salary and benefits package.
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Additional Information
Trading Standards Team Manager Candidate Pack
Contact Details for an Informal Discussion
Richard Strawson, Head of Trading Standards on 0370 779 3973 or richard.strawson@hants.gov.uk
Commitment
Hampshire County Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect this commitment.
In order to combat discrimination, no unnecessary conditions or requirements will be applied which could have a disproportionately adverse effect on any one group. All sections of the population will have equal access to jobs. No applicant or employee will receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership and pregnancy or maternity, unless a Genuine Occupational Requirement (GOR) applies.
We are a Disability Confident Employer - committed to ensuring that our recruitment and selection process is inclusive and accessible.
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