Strategy Manager, Strategy & Policy

Closing Date: 24 June 2026 (Please submit your application before midnight on Tuesday 23 June); the role is fixed-term for up to 12 months.

About Ofcom: As the UK’s communications regulator, we deliver vital work that keeps the UK connected and shapes the future of how we stay connected with each other. Our work covers everything from phones and broadband to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices, and includes making the online world a safer place.

About the team you’ll be part of: The Strategy and Policy team plays a pivotal role in setting Ofcom’s strategic direction and ensuring it has a clear pathway to deliver against its key priorities. We provide the organisation with strategic insight and analysis needed to anticipate future challenges within this rapidly evolving sector.

The purpose and scope of the role: This is a unique opportunity to contribute to increasingly strategic organisational and policy questions that Ofcom faces across the breadth of its remit. The successful candidate will coordinate delivery teams, work with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders, and be willing to engage across all of the sectors Ofcom regulates.

Your key responsibilities:

• Thought leadership on emerging policy issues: collaborate with other teams to decide Ofcom’s position on new or cross‑cutting consumer, public policy, and competition issues.
• Horizon scanning and market/strategic insight: understand how the communications sector may develop in future to inform our wider policy programme.
• Project management and delivery: manage strategic projects, including timelines, budget, governance, and stakeholder engagement; set direction for projects; oversee or lead the delivery of high‑quality reports for publication.
• Occasionally act as Project Director: assume ultimate responsibility for the quality of output and liaise with internal clients at Director level.
• Analytical work and thought leadership: lead policy development, develop robust analytical approaches, map problem spaces, formulate hypotheses, and provide advice across policy areas.
• Contributing to debates: offer strategic, policy, and organisational thought leadership within the team and across the wider organisation.
• Representing Ofcom: represent Ofcom at external meetings and build an external network to enhance understanding of stakeholder positions.
• Team management: motivate, develop junior colleagues, and contribute to the ongoing development of the team and Ofcom as a place to work.

Essential Skills, Knowledge & Experience:

• Executing plans: lead teams across a portfolio of projects, taking ownership of deadlines, deliverables, and proactively shaping projects.
• Strategic policy development: at least one policy area, using analytical frameworks for regulatory policy and commercial strategy analysis.
• Internal corporate strategy and planning experience, whether in a commercial or public‑sector context.
• Effective communication: clear oral and written skills, producing publication‑ready text and tailoring arguments to varied audiences.
• Strong presentation skills, especially PowerPoint.
• Collaboration across cross‑functional teams.
• (Preferred) Ability to manage upwards and mitigate risks.
• (Preferred) Understanding of commercial dynamics in the regulated sectors.
• (Preferred) Familiarity with quantitative modelling of consumer trends or business finances.
• (Preferred) Undergraduate‑equivalent knowledge of economics, public policy, or politics.

Inclusive Hiring at Ofcom: We welcome colleagues of all ethnicities, sexes, genders, sexual orientations, ages, faiths, beliefs, and those with apparent and non‑apparent disabilities. We value socio‑economic diversity, life experience and neurodiversity. Our roles can be adapted for part‑time hours, job shares or other flexible arrangements.