Lead Specialist - Trusteeship, Administration & DB Supervision in Brighton

Starting salary: Salary starting from £54,074 per annum dependent on skills and experience, plus excellent benefits package, and flexible working arrangements.

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Brighton/hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

Closing date: 9th December 2025

The Role And Responsibilities

You will lead and be responsible for a portfolio of the Theme’s most complex and highest priority engagements, ensuring the timely delivery of effective regulatory outcomes in line with our risk appetite and corporate priorities. You will work with internal stakeholders to help embed new processes across the team and help develop confidence and capabilities in newly developing approaches. You will build and foster strong internal and external stakeholder relationships.

• Be accountable for the timely delivery of effective intervention and outcomes on the most complex and high profile interventions with schemes and third‑party stakeholders and be responsible for the delivery of effective regulatory outcomes in your portfolio.
• You will mentor and coach colleagues and share knowledge within and beyond the Theme.
• Support the Theme’s management team in the introduction of change initiatives and deputise for Principals as necessary.
• Lead external engagements on key issues or complex interventions where required and do so with confidence and credibility.
• Collaborate with all stakeholders across TPR and externally.
• Offer technical advice support and guidance, as well as leading by example through demonstrating TPR competencies and TPR values.

The role criteria

• Experience of working in regulation or the pensions industry including defined benefit pension schemes, decision making and delivering good outcomes.
• Experience of leading multi‑disciplinary teams of experienced professionals in cases of strategic and reputational importance.
• Experience at coaching, mentoring and motivating others.
• Negotiating and influencing skills with experience of effectively utilising those skills, up to senior management level in a commercial or regulatory environment.
• Experience of demonstrating credibility, showing resilience and building and maintaining relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Awareness of financial, commercial, political and social landscape.

The team

The Trusteeship, Administration and DB Supervision team works to enhance the system and influence the delivery of better outcomes for savers, by working through a deep understanding of market‑wide risks and opportunities. There are 4 themes each focusing on specific areas of the market with a mixture of individual scheme/provider and industry‑wide engagement. We work closely with both the Compliance and Enforcement Group and the Strategy, Policy and Adviser directorate.

Reward And Benefits

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full‑time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Our culture

TPR strives to be a high‑performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well‑being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment. Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed.

About The Pensions Regulator

With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.

Applications

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered.

Selection and interview

If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible.

Diversity and inclusion

TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.