Deputy Director Resources
Birmingham | £70,000 - £117,800
Location Birmingham, London or Teddington About the job Summary About the Office for Product Safety and Standards Do you care about the safety of products and want to protect people and places? Is your passion to empower consumers to make good and informed choices? 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, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). OPSS was created to provide dedicated national capacity for product safety while taking forward work on supporting small business growth and implementing the Industrial Strategy vision of simplifying regulation. We have been given a huge opportunity to shape the future, and how regulation works in the UK and overseas. By our actions, we can improve protections for consumers and the environment, improve business confidence and drive improved productivity in industry that delivers jobs and security. 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. Designed and delivered well, regulation can be an enabler of growth, innovation and productivity. Our Mission is to be a trusted product regulator for the UK. Our goal is to be leader of good regulatory practice and a champion of local regulation. We are currently a departmental Office of BEIS, operating as the national regulator for products. When we were established in January 2018 the then Secretary of State asked us to get started straight away and committed publicly to a consultation on our future status. Many of our more vociferous stakeholders think we should be an independent agency now. Ministers have recently decided that we should agree a Business Case with HMT and Cabinet Office as the next step. This post is central to that journey. For further information on OPSS please visit www.gov.uk Further details on working for OPSS can be found on the OPSS careers website Job description About the Role As our new Deputy Director for Corporate Services you will be responsible for leading the office’s work on Finance, Commercial, Digital, People, Project Management, Operations and wider corporate issues across OPSS. Responsibilities • Finance and Commercial - supporting the CEO, as lead officer for OPSS, with accountability for £35m of spend including income streams and overseeing all commercial, capital and procurement activity; • People – optimising people resource for the organisation, with over 350 employees, and championing people and change projects; • Digital – leading the development and implementation of OPSS’s digital presence with a clear ambition for our digital services; • Operations – overseeing our Operational Support Unit who lead on business support functions and provide customer service to internal and external stakeholders; • PMO – overseeing the activities of the Project Management Office who provide support across the office, and lead office wide activity planning, monitoring and corporate reporting; • Estates – responsibility for the safety and wellbeing of our staff and our presence in Birmingham, Teddington, Ipswich and Victoria Street, with different arrangements at each location. Plus staff working regularly overseas with a permanent presence in Dubai and Sydney; • Capital – leading a capital programme to renew our laboratory presence on the NPL run site in Teddington. You will represent OPSS on cross-BEIS and Whitehall Groups such as digital, estates, H&S and spending review. With the responsibility of overseeing OPSS’ £35m budget, you will lead a team of staff based predominantly in Birmingham and be responsible for overseeing the Organisation’s key corporate projects, ensuring that OPSS’s employees have the resource and tools to work in an efficient, modern and flexible way. You will report directly to Graham Russell, CEO, and will have direct line management responsibility for G6 Functional Team Leads. As a key member of the OPSS’s leadership team, you will play an active role in the ongoing corporate management and development of the organisation, including leading or sponsoring corporate change projects across the Office. We expect all our senior leaders to be: • Inspiring – about our work and its future • Confident – in our engagement with others • Empowering – to allow our teams to deliver As a departmental office with policy and delivery responsibilities we are working to achieve a supportive, diverse culture that values our staff and the work they do, supports a close engagement with the department but recognises our specific role. Person Specification What we are looking for: To be successful in this role you will need to be an exceptional leader with extensive senior management experience and a strong track record of delivery. In addition, you will also need to be able to demonstrate your capability and potential against the following essential criteria: • Extensive experience of providing visible leadership to support long term strategies, with a proven ability to develop a motivated, engaged and high performing workforce and demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion. • The ability to communicate complex positions and ideas clearly, and with impact, to a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally. • The proven ability to supervise evaluation of the effectiveness of communication against objectives, reviewing lessons learned and comparing industry best practice to identify areas for improvement for future strategies. • The financial, commercial and project leadership skills to oversee successful delivery, management of risks, and to make sound judgements in a changing context, with demonstrable experience of making complex, evidence-based decisions. • The experience of preparing financial accounts in the public sector. • The commitment to continuous improvement of processes and policies and to ensure relevant policies and procedures are delivered in an efficient and effective way and are applied throughout the organisation in a consistent and compliant manner. • The ability to build and maintain successful relationships internally and externally at Board level, winning the trust of those who may have differing or conflicting views. • The confidence, presence and impact to operate within a complex, highly regulated environment, garnering the respect and support of your staff, colleagues and counterparts in other organisations. • Extensive experience of providing visible leadership to support long term strategies, with a proven ability to develop a motivated, engaged and high performing workforce and demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion. • The commitment to continuous improvement of processes and policies and to ensure relevant policies and procedures are delivered in an efficient and effective way and are applied throughout the organisation in a consistent and compliant manner. Desirable • The successful candidate should be ACCA or CIMA qualified. Please take time to read the attached Candidate pack for further information about this role and the recruitment process.
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