Head of Intelligence

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

- 348082**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**:

- DBT - DG CMRR - Office for Product Safety & Standards**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
- London, Birmingham, TeddingtonAbout 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, most recently with the addition of construction products regulation planned.

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 Role and Our Team**

The Head of Intelligence is a key functional team leader role within the Targeting branch of the Evidence Impact Area.

The Intelligence Team is responsible for collecting, collating and analysing information to produce and disseminate products which help shape and support OPSS regulatory decision-making at all levels.

We are seeking a regulatory information and intelligence leader who can add to the diversity and scope of the team to lead our intelligence capability, delivering operational, tactical and strategic regulatory information and Intelligence.

As the Head of Intelligence, you will be a confident, collaborative leader, driving the team to build processes and engage across the Office to develop and embed an information and intelligence led culture, as well as forging links and maintaining relationships with the wider regulatory intelligence community.

This is a great opportunity for an experienced leader who wants to take a step forward into a role that comes with a range of management and leadership responsibilities. Someone who can add to the diversity and scope of the team by using their acquired skills and abilities to develop and lead our information and intelligence function.

Applications are welcome from results-oriented individuals who have the energy to make positive change happen and are passionate about outcomes.

***Key Responsibilities**:
As the Head of the Regulatory Information and Intelligence Team, you will:

- Use effective visible leadership to translate OPSS strategy into clear and meaningful objectives, building a team environment in which everyone can and does contribute effectively.
- Lead OPSS’s intelligence capability and the preparation of intelligence assessments at strategic, tactical, and operational levels.
- Provide visible leadership to the team and across the Office to ensure information and intelligence driven insight is being used to drive operational policy making and regulatory activity and decision making.
- Engage with intelligence and data partners to ensure we have access to and can analyse all relevant intelligence and data sources to provide the most accurate analysis.
- Lead the delivery of high profile and complex information and intelligence reports that meet the needs of our customers.
- Own the development of the Product Safety Database, building internal and external relationships to understand user needs.
- Develop the capability of the regulatory information and intelligence team through coaching and professional development.
- Be flexible - our work covers a broad range of regulatory areas, so you will need to quickly understand the differing needs of customers, hazards and risks relevant to each area of act