Engagement Business Lead

Role title: Engagement Business Lead

TPR grade & pay group: Core – Grade 5

Directorate: Market Oversight

Salary: £75,099 Per Annum

Contract type: Permanent

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

As Engagement Lead, you will play a key role in helping The Pensions Regulator deliver its corporate strategy and support a pensions system that is resilient, sustainable and focused on member outcomes. Working closely with colleagues across Marketing and Engagement, Public Affairs and the wider organisation, you will shape how we engage with the pensions industry at a time of significant reform and change.

You will lead our stakeholder engagement function, ensuring engagement activity is focused on the areas where it can make the greatest difference and supports TPR's strategic priorities. The role brings together stakeholder engagement, communications and insight, creating opportunities for meaningful dialogue with industry partners and helping us better understand the needs and perspectives of our audiences. Through leadership of a specialist team, you will build strong relationships across the market, develop effective engagement approaches and ensure stakeholder insight informs decision-making.

Your work will contribute directly to improved outcomes for pension savers and help shape how TPR works with the industry to deliver positive change.

• Enjoys building productive relationships and bringing people together around shared goals.
• Is motivated by contributing to positive outcomes for pension savers and the wider pensions landscape.
• Likes working collaboratively across different teams, disciplines and stakeholder groups.
• Values using evidence, insight and feedback to improve decision-making and delivery.
• Enjoys leading others, developing capability and creating clarity during periods of change.

• Significant senior-level experience in corporate stakeholder engagement within a complex, high-stakes environment.
• Experience of working with very senior stakeholders and collaborating within multi-disciplinary teams.
• Ability to influence, challenge constructively and negotiate priorities and trade-offs.
• Leadership experience with the judgement to provide direction and clarity through ambiguity and change.
• Ability to understand and navigate complex organisational, regulatory or reform environments.
• Experience of translating organisational objectives into clear engagement strategies and delivery plans.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to tailor messages for different audiences and explain complex issues clearly.
• Ability to build alignment and effective working relationships with senior stakeholders, including where there is no direct reporting relationship

The Marketing & Engagement team plays a central role in helping The Pensions Regulator achieve its strategic objectives through integrated communications, stakeholder engagement, audience insight and behaviourally informed campaigns. Bringing together specialists across communications, engagement, planning, content, marketing, digital channels and insight, and working to deliver TPR’s cross-cutting strategic priorities, we work as one team to ensure our activity is audience-led, evidence-based and focused on delivering impact.

• 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).

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…