Enforcement Manager

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. 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, 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 We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible and recognise how important inclusivity is to achieve the best outcomes. We hope to attract applications from all underrepresented groups. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation if required to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation., We are looking to recruit into several Grade 7 Enforcement Manager roles across the Regulation Impact Area at OPSS. The Regulation Impact Area's work has real world impact, protecting people and places from unsafe goods, ensuring that regulation is enforced and is fit for purpose. Our work is nationally significant and high-profile, often attracting media and Parliamentary interest. Protecting consumers, we enforce a range of regulations, deliver evidence-based solutions, and issue advice to businesses to support them to meet their legal obligations. We enforce and deliver regulation with proportionality, through enforcement, engagement, and collaboration across-Government, with local, national, and international regulators. We are a collaborative regulator, sharing our expertise and knowledge to lead and influence on both the domestic and global stage. We have ambitious and innovative programmes of work, including enforcing recently-introduced Product Security & Telecommunications Infrastructure legislation, working across online and global supply chains, developing expertise, technical capability and practical experience for construction products, and developing a product safety regime that is agile and responsive to advances in technology, thereby ensuring that our approach is fit for the future and embraces the opportunities of innovation. This is an exciting opportunity for dynamic and motivated individuals to make positive change happen within and beyond OPSS, and who are keen to build a stimulating career in the regulatory environment. We offer a wide-ranging development package, which includes both internal and external learning and development opportunities. Our Regulation Impact Area is growing to meet the challenges of the future, and there are plenty of opportunities for people committed to their professional development. We are recruiting into a range of challenging, creative, and impactful Regulation teams. The posts include roles in: Construction Products - This team works with industry and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to help the UK build better, safer buildings, ensuring that construction products meet their performance requirements and are safe. Where construction products do not meet these requirements, we take the necessary enforcement action. Products and Sectors Regulation - This team enforces a range of product, environmental, and energy efficiency regulations across a wide variety of product types. Our work spans a range of sectors, and we support priorities across Government, working closely with other Departments to deliver shared outcomes. This includes supporting growth, through providing a regulatory environment in which businesses have confidence to invest and grow, whilst continually ensuring that consumers and the environment are protected from harm. We regulate products in new and emerging sectors, supporting innovation and ensuring connected consumer appliances offer protections. Online and Supply Chain Enforcement - The Online and Supply Chain Enforcement team works to ensure that consumers across the UK can feel as safe shopping online as they do on the UK's High Streets; we are committed to preventing unsafe and non-compliant products entering the UK supply chain. This team delivers an innovative programme of enforcement activity, finding the right intervention points to stop bad actors within the supply chain, including at ports and fulfilment centers. The work is intelligence-led and includes proactively monitoring online marketplaces and other platforms who make products available to UK consumers. A range of enforcement activities are undertaken, including withdrawing and recalling products from sale and taking proportionate action, including prosecution.,

• Leadership and line management responsibilities, in accordance with OPSS and Civil Service requirements; you will ensure staff performance levels remain high and develop your team
• Lead on high-profile cases that are nationally significant, novel or contentious
• Manage your team's casework alongside your own, ensuring that investigations are progressed appropriately, whether through civil or criminal sanctions, to achieve proportionate regulatory outcomes
• Manage the resources in your team to deliver a broad range of proactive and reactive work, investigations, and broader enforcement activities, flexibly reallocating resources and re-prioritising as needed, which can include supporting cross-team enforcement priorities
• Develop and deliver a work programme that supports strategic organisational objectives and priorities; work with your team and others across OPSS to identify important issues and develop innovative ways to fix them
• Develop and implement our regulatory approaches and processes. Plan, review, and deliver your team's operational plan, alongside supporting other functional teams where enforcement support is required
• Provide advice and support, as a subject matter expert, to OPSS Leadership, policy sponsors (where applicable), Ministers, and others.
You will apply through this generalised campaign, which includes all of the roles detailed above. As part of your personal statement, please indicate your preferred team - either Construction Products, Products and Sectors Regulation, or Online and Supply Chain Enforcement. You will have a further opportunity to discuss your preference at interview. This will then be taken into consideration based on a merit order determined during the application process. If we offer you a position that you do not wish to accept, you should not expect to be offered a further role in this case.