This is an exciting time to join the Department for Business and Trade. We have a clear mission - to grow the economy. Our role is to help businesses invest, grow and export to create jobs and opportunities right across the country. Click below to find out why you should join DBT's Senior Civil Service team: OPSS is the UK's national product regulator and sits at the heart of our product regulation system. Its primary purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm, enabling trade and growth by ensuring consumers and businesses can buy and sell products with confidence. An effective product regulatory system ensures shops and small businesses can compete on a level playing field with online marketplaces and global tech companies, and ensures consumers and businesses have the right protections in place. The regulations we enforce ensure that everyday products such as toys, electricals and cosmetics are safe for use; they ensure accurate weighing and measuring so that consumers get what they pay for; they ensure construction products perform as they should in the built environment; and they ensure products such as timber and electricals are sourced or disposed of in the right way to avoid harm to the environment. During the year, OPSS enforcement activity has addressed important product safety issues such as the causes of e-bike fires, the risks to young children posed by water beads, and concerns with some models of domestic appliances, as well as supporting local authority trading standards in complex cases. Whilst recognising these successes, there is still more work to do. Do you care about the safety, security and environmental impact 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 grow? If the answer is yes, then we would like to hear from you! As our Deputy Director for Products and Sectors Regulation, you will lead our approach to sector-based regulation. Ensuring we take a risk-based approach to our engagement, interventions and evaluation, to strengthen and build confidence in the UK's product regulation system. OPSS Regulatory teams understand the business environment and the sectors they regulate and seek to support compliance using a broad range of regulatory interventions to maximise impact and minimise burdens. They work with the Government Departments we regulate on behalf of, other national regulators (such as the Health & Safety Executive) and local regulators (such as Trading Standards) to support and enforce product compliance to provide assurance that products are safe and compliant. OPSS deliver regulatory and enforcement activities relating to the environmental, security and international impact of products for a number of Government Departments. As our Deputy Director for Products and Sectors Regulation, your key responsibilities will include:

Leading the Office's regulatory and enforcement activities to deliver impactful regulatory outcomes in accordance with best practice. Building and leading sector focused teams, across the Office, to ensure a collaborative and informed approach to product regulation; Developing and implementing effective policies and practices that ensure the Office operates in accordance with legal and regulatory requirements on behalf of the Secretary of State; Leading relationships with Policy Sponsors, including Other Government Departments;

You will lead a team based predominantly in Birmingham and Teddington. You will be part of the Regulation Impact Area, reporting to the Deputy Chief Executive for Regulation and will have direct line management responsibility for several G6 Functional Team Leads. Failure to submit both documents will mean the panel only have limited information on which to assess your application against the criteria in the person specification. If you encounter any issues or are unable to apply online please contact SCSRecruitment@businessandtrade.gov.uk in the first instance. DBT now host Senior Civil Service (SCS) Candidate Support sessions for those wanting to learn more about the application and recruitment processes for SCS roles within DBT, if you are interested please register for a session here - https://registration.crowdcomms.com/dbtscsrecruitment Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through building your depth of expertise. As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above. This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions. Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above. Security

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Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups: o UK nationals o nationals of the Republic of Ireland o nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK o nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) o nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) o individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 o Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

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Diversity and Inclusion

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+ 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;

+ Experience of regulatory enforcement within a national operational delivery environment, with a developed understanding of technically-based regulation and regulatory design; + 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; and earning the respect and support of your staff, colleagues and counterparts in other organisations; + The ability to communicate about the regulations we enforce and how we undertake risk-based regulatory interventions to a non-technical audience; + 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.

Alongside your salary of £81,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £23,465 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

+ Learning and development tailored to your role + An environment with flexible working options + A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity + A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

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