Assistant Director, Business Compliance Team

7 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 343815**Salary**:

- £64,432 - £74,825- National: £64,432 - £73,014 London: £67,794 - £74,825- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 6**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Competition, Markets and Regulatory Reform Group**Type of role**:

- Operational Delivery**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Teddington & BirminghamAbout the job

**Job summary**:
**About OPSS**

Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Can we use your skills, knowledge, and experience to enable UK business to thrive? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you

We are the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS), part of the Department for Business & Trade (Previously the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy). We are here for the purpose of making regulation work to deliver real world impact. Regulation is a powerful Government tool to address market failures, influence behaviour and promote positive action. Crafted and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and efficiency.

Since early 2018 we have been building a positive and creative team that enjoys a position of influence and respect within an organisation that continues to grow, recently with the addition of construction products regulation.

Our primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence.

Further information can be found on our website here

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. We embrace diversity and promote equality of opportunity. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. There is a guaranteed interview scheme (DCS) for people with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.

**We are Inclusive**

**Job description**:
**The Team**
- _The Government has announced that the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) will host the new national regulator for construction products, driving the improvement of safety and performance standards and ensuring compliance with construction product regulations.

OPSS has begun operating under existing regulations and is currently transitioning to become fully operational under new legislation. The Business Compliance Team is the team responsible for setting and establishing OPSS’ approach to drive business compliance with the construction product industry. We lead on the delivery of high-quality regulation of construction products placed on the UK market.

The Construction Products Business Area is looking to appoint a Grade 6 Assistant Director of Business Compliance to work in partnership with the existing Assistant Director.

This role can be based either in Birmingham or Teddington only.

**Your role will consist of**:

- Ensure processes reflect the Regulators Code, Regulatory Delivery Model, Business Impact Target, Growth Duty and any other governance policies, reporting requirements and agreed best practice.
- Coordinate the prioritisation and allocation of resources to deliver maximum benefits and value for money.
- Promote technical and legislative expertise, as well as an understanding of commercial compliance standards within the relevant business sectors.
- Deliver strong governance, advocating progressive team, individual and performance management practices.
- Promote staff development with a coherent programme of induction and continuous improvement, identifying and supporting excellence through mentoring/assessor relationships, opportunities across OPSS, and integration of the apprenticeship programme.
- High level collaboration across the team and directorate to promote and deliver against the integration agenda.
- Develop project interventions and review activities to identify effective outcome measures, align with reporting mechanisms and obligations.
- Engage closely with the enforcement leadership team to develop coherent enforcement and engagement strategies, ensuring these are implemented effectively within the team.

**Person specification**:
**Essential Criteria**
- Experience of successfully deploying tailored interventions to resolve challenges in a sophisticated regulatory environment.
- Understanding of the need for flexibility and navigating uncertainty with resilience through an aptitude towards problem solving.
- Ability to develop and lead strategic operational and project plans that deliver wider organisational priorities, and which align with those of other Departments.
- Confidence to report to, and update, the Deputy Director and other senior colleagues in a


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