Senior Analyst

Overview

Organisation OFGEM. Locations: Cardiff, Glasgow or London. Application Deadline: 19 days remaining. Salary: £ 49,452 - £62,699.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We’re at the forefront of change across the energy sector, driving toward Net Zero whilst protecting energy consumers, especially vulnerable people.

We’re offering a permanent role with the chance to play a leading part in shaping the future of the energy price cap and wider price protection policy. This is an opportunity to work on nationally significant policy that directly impacts around 22 million consumers, ensuring fairness in a rapidly evolving market. You’ll contribute to complex, high-profile decisions that sit at the centre of public and political focus. Working within the Retail Price Cap Policy team, you’ll help evolve how the cap responds to market developments while maintaining strong consumer protection. You’ll operate across analytical and policy challenges, contributing to the ongoing design of price protections that balance affordability, competition and sustainability.

This role offers the chance to influence major policy decisions through robust analysis and strategic insight. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders across Ofgem, government and industry, helping shape thinking in an area that is critical to consumer outcomes and market stability. We’re looking for someone with strong analytical and policy capabilities, experience working with complex data and the ability to communicate insights clearly and effectively. You’ll be comfortable leading workstreams, managing competing priorities and engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.

In return, you’ll join a collaborative and high-impact team working on one of the most visible and important areas of energy policy. You’ll contribute to decisions that directly affect consumers across Great Britain, while operating in a fast-paced environment where your work has real and immediate impact. We have a critical purpose to advance price protection policy. Join us in combating unfair pricing and ensuring energy markets deliver fair outcomes for consumers across Great Britain.

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Key Responsibilities

• Developing and evidencing changes to price cap policy;
• Ensuring policy recommendations are based on robust and quality assured analysis;
• Communicating policy proposals to internal and external stakeholders;
• Coordinating / managing a team of policy analysts to ensure the completion of team deliverables on time;
• Identify interdependencies and working collaboratively with other experts across Ofgem. Engaging with other policy teams and legal advisors.

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Produce high quality internal working papers to support senior managements decisions; and also produce high quality public documents such as consultations and decision papers;
• Build, oversee and quality assure analysis and analytical models in support of policy development;
• Communicate, both written and verbally, analytical findings, policy recommendations and policy risks to senior decision makers at various governance fora;
• Respond to ad hoc and cross cutting requests by providing expert, authoritative, impartial and accurate information and analysis of the price cap.

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