Pensions Reform Programme Manager

The Pensions Regulator; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & development

Inclusive environment

Hybrid working

Employee networks

Job summary

The Pensions Regulator in Brighton is seeking a Pensions Reform Programme Manager to lead the end-to-end delivery of the Pensions Reform agenda, coordinating multiple workstreams and ensuring outcomes are delivered at pace and with coherence.

This senior role requires strong judgment, credibility with executive sponsors, and the ability to influence at ExCo and Board levels while focusing on outcomes that benefit savers and the market.

Qualifications

• Significant experience delivering complex, high-profile change in regulated or public-sector environments.
• Experience leading multi-strand delivery initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Hold overall responsibility for end-to-end delivery of the Pensions Reform agenda, ensuring outcomes are delivered at pace and with coherence across workstreams.
• Work with Executive Sponsors and Accountable Executives to translate strategic direction into clear delivery focus, priorities and plans.
• Establish and maintain an outcome-led delivery framework, ensuring clarity of outcomes, outputs and measures, and alignment to TPR's Corporate Strategy and Business Plan.
• Lead and coordinate delivery across multiple teams, actively managing dependencies, sequencing, risks and trade-offs.
• Build and lead a delivery team with strong collaboration and accountability.
• Provide clear reporting to senior forums, including ExCo and Board, highlighting progress and options.

Skills

Programme management

Delivery leadership

Stakeholder management

Regulatory/public sector experience

Ambiguity navigation

Job description

Role title: Pensions Reform Programme Manager

TPR grade & pay group: Grade 6 -Core

Directorate: COO Group

Salary: £69,398.00 Per Annum (Includes 10% Market Premia)

Contract type: Permanant

Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office

The Role And Responsibilities

We are looking for an experienced Programme Manager to lead delivery of TPR's Pensions Reform agenda; a complex, high-profile set of reforms with the potential to make a significant and lasting difference to pension savers across the UK.

This role will sit at the centre of TPR's response to major legislative change following Royal Assent, working closely with Executive Sponsors, Accountable Executives and delivery teams to ensure reform moves from policy intent into coherent, confident and outcome-focused delivery.

The Programme Manager will be responsible for shaping and driving an outcome-led delivery approach across multiple interdependent workstreams, ensuring pace is maintained, dependencies are actively managed, and delivery effort is focused on achieving the outcomes that matter most for savers and the market.

This is a senior delivery role requiring strong judgement, credibility with executive stakeholders, and the ability to lead through influence in a complex regulatory environment.

Role

• Has significant experience operating as a Programme Manager delivering complex, high-profile change in a regulated or public-sector environment.
• Can lead large, multi-strand delivery initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders and interdependencies.
• Is comfortable working with Executive-level stakeholders and influencing at ExCo and Board level.
• Brings a proactive, delivery-led mindset and thrives in ambiguity.
• Focuses on outcomes over activity and can prioritise effort on what will make the greatest difference.
• Is motivated by delivering work that has a real, lasting impact for pension savers.

The role criteria

• Has significant experience operating as a Programme Manager delivering complex, high-profile change in a regulated or public-sector environment.
• Can lead large, multi-strand delivery initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders and interdependencies.
• Is comfortable working with Executive-level stakeholders and influencing at ExCo and Board level.
• Brings a proactive, delivery-led mindset and thrives in ambiguity.
• Focuses on outcomes over activity and can prioritise effort on what will make the greatest difference.
• Is motivated by delivering work that has a real, lasting impact for pension savers.

You Will

• Hold overall responsibility for end-to-end delivery of the Pensions Reform agenda, ensuring outcomes are delivered at pace and with coherence across workstreams.
• Work in close partnership with Executive Sponsors and Accountable Executives to translate strategic direction into clear delivery focus, priorities and plans.
• Establish and maintain an outcome-led delivery framework, ensuring clarity of outcomes, outputs and measures, and alignment to TPR's Corporate Strategy and Business Plan.
• Lead and coordinate delivery across multiple teams and disciplines, actively managing dependencies, sequencing, risks and trade-offs.
• Build and lead an effective delivery team, fostering strong collaboration, shared ownership and accountability.
• Provide clear, confident reporting and insight to senior forums, including ExCo and Board, highlighting progress, risks, options and recommended actions.
• Ensure delivery activity remains focused on doing the right things, in the right order, avoiding duplication, rework and unnecessary complexity.
• Work closely with enabling functions including Strategy, Risk, Finance, DDAT and Communications to support successful delivery and adoption.
• Manage programme finances, resources and external support to ensure delivery within agreed tolerances of time, cost and quality

TPR Offers

• 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.

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

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.

Find out more about us.

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 [e-mail] .