Senior Economist

at  The Pensions Regulator

ABOUT US

More than half the UK working population rely on The Pensions Regulator (TPR) to regulate their retirement savings. With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation that will impact on millions of lives for decades to come.
Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe. We’re committed to bringing people into TPR who are ready to make a difference and put UK savers at the heart of what we do.
It is important to us that TPR remains a great place to work. We do all we can to help our people reach their full potential with learning, secondment, and development opportunities. We put our 900+ employees first, supporting flexible working and offer a diverse, lively, and inclusive environment. This includes our Disability Network, Family Network, LGBT+ Network (Proud), Minority Ethnic (ME) Network and Women’s Network, which offer spaces to connect.
Our new corporate strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the industry. We are at the start of that journey. Join us to find out what part you can play.
We operate a hybrid working model, with regular attendance in our Brighton office to connect with colleagues across the business.

ROLE

This is an exciting new role to TPR and will have a broad remit to support us in evolving our market oversight. You will be a crucial member of multi-disciplinary teams focusing on three main areas:

• Financial stability – ensure TPR will be able to prevent the build-up of financial stability risks generated by trust-based pension schemes and mitigate them.
• Market structure – ensure the competitiveness of pension provision as the market rapidly consolidates.
• Policy initiatives – ensure that the introduction of policy changes and new pension products are grounded in good economic theory and balance the benefits for the saver with the wider UK economy.

The main focus of the role, at least initially, will be informing our work on financial stability as we look to further enhance our capability in this area in response to recommendations made by the Financial Policy Committee of the Bank of England.
We are looking for the right candidate to join the Regulatory Policy Analysis and Advice Directorate working closely with investment consultants, actuaries, covenant and financial analysts and policy advisors some of whom have strong economic backgrounds. More broadly within TPR you will liaise with strategy and risk colleagues to horizon scan developing needs and priorities within our corporate plan and providing high quality advice to the Board and Executive Committee. You will need to be comfortable representing TPR externally and liaising with senior regulatory and policy colleagues at the Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority, Financial Conduct Authority, Department for Work and Pensions and HM Treasury.
You will be highly personally motivated, helping to shape this role as TPR develops a more effective market oversight function. You will need to be content working in a matrix management set-up involving multi-disciplinary teams. Technical skills are important although there is strong modelling support.

To apply please email recruitmentteam@tpr.gov.uk quoting role reference number 183276 along with:

• a covering letter with details of how your skills and experience meet the role requirements
• a copy of your CV
• details of your notice perio