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Role title: Programme Manager: Pensions Reform
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 6 & Core
Directorate: COO Group
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract: 12 Months
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
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 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, re‑work 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.
Qualifications
- Significant experience of operating as a Programme Manager delivering complex, high‑profile change in a regulated or public‑sector environment.
- Proven ability to lead large, multi‑strand delivery initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders and interdependencies.
- Strong experience of risk, issue and dependency management, including the ability to surface and resolve delivery challenges early.
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively with Executive‑level stakeholders, providing challenge, insight and clear recommendations.
- Experience of establishing and operating outcome‑led delivery approaches, including defining outcomes, measures and delivery plans.
- Strong understanding of, and experience applying, Agile and hybrid delivery approaches.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working model, 35‑hour working week (full‑time), flexible working patterns and flexitime.
- Competitive parental leave.
- Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offering retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid shift patterns and flexible shift arrangements.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to recruitment, employment, retention and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who have a disability and who meet the criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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Job Description:
Role title: Programme Manager: Pensions Reform
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 6 & Core
Directorate: COO Group
Contract type: Fixed Term Contract: 12 Months
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
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 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, re‑work 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.
Qualifications
- Significant experience of operating as a Programme Manager delivering complex, high‑profile change in a regulated or public‑sector environment.
- Proven ability to lead large, multi‑strand delivery initiatives with multiple senior stakeholders and interdependencies.
- Strong experience of risk, issue and dependency management, including the ability to surface and resolve delivery challenges early.
- Demonstrable ability to work effectively with Executive‑level stakeholders, providing challenge, insight and clear recommendations.
- Experience of establishing and operating outcome‑led delivery approaches, including defining outcomes, measures and delivery plans.
- Strong understanding of, and experience applying, Agile and hybrid delivery approaches.
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays.
- Hybrid working model, 35‑hour working week (full‑time), flexible working patterns and flexitime.
- Competitive parental leave.
- Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%.
- Dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offering retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts.
- Cycle to work scheme.
- Hybrid shift patterns and flexible shift arrangements.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and are committed to recruitment, employment, retention and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who have a disability and who meet the criteria for this role will be offered an interview.
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Posted: May 15th, 2026