# Senior Policy Manager

**Company**: OFGEM
**Location**: Cardiff, Wales
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: GBP 49,452 - 62,699 per year
**Category**: Policy & Public Affairs
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

Britain’s energy system is at a crossroads, and Ofgem is at the forefront of the fight to protect consumers, tackle rising costs and accelerate the transition to a greener future.

We’re looking for a Senior Policy Manager to join us and help drive the bold decisions needed to secure a fairer, more sustainable energy system for generations to come.

You’ll have the scope to shape policy that affects millions of consumers, supports businesses and influences the direction of an entire industry.

**Key Responsibilities:**

- Proactively leads a policy area and provides the end-to-end knowledge and strategic oversight to support effective decision making and continuous improvement

- Proactively leads continuous development of their domain knowledge, policy proposals, research, technology, consumer needs and stakeholder perspectives in their policy/strategy area

- Works flexibly across Ofgem to ensure delivery of organisation priorities in line with business planning, guiding, supporting, and collaborating with colleagues to respond effectively to change

- Leads on the delivery of high quality, timely, and robust analysis of core issue/s and policy options resulting in evidence-based and deliverable recommendations

- Leads key projects, including responsibility for internal and external stakeholder engagement, prioritising, planning and delivering work

- Ensures decision makers consider relevant legislation and regulation and any specific case issues and escalates critical issues as needed to ensure delivery for consumers

**Person specification**

- Policy Skills: identifying, analysing, and articulating complex problems; working with other professionals to develop solutions and options, and presenting policy recommendations that consider the trade-offs, risks, and dependencies to aid effective decision making

- Managing delivery: set clear goals and priorities, supports others to solve problems, overcome challenges, seeking feedback and means of continuous improvement

- Clearly identifies and communicates the relevance, interdependencies and strategic fit of their work to organisational priorities both internally and externally

- Demonstrably identifies and understands the value/contribution of internal and external partners and effectively creates open, creative, constructive, timely and inclusive engagement

**Benefits**

- Salary of £49,452 - £62,699 per year

- Ofgem contributes £14,326 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme

- 30 days annual leave after 2 years

- Excellent training and development opportunities

- Hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review)

- Flexible working hours and family friendly policies

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## Skills

### Required
- policy development
- strategic thinking
- communication
- influencing

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