Product Safety Online Supply Chains Policy Advisor
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £34,254 to £39,994 per year |
| Additional salary information: | London: £38,138 - £39,994 National: £34,254 - £36,142 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 July 2025 |
| Location: | B4 6BS |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 411476/1 |
Summary
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.
The growth in e-commerce models has brought significant challenges to the product safety legal framework, which was not designed with increasingly complex, online and globalised supply chains in mind. Government has introduced the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill, which will enable the Government to introduce clear obligations for e-commerce models, whilst promoting consumer safety and ensuring fair market competition.
This role will involve high pace work aiding the delivery of the Product Regulation and Metrology Bill through parliament, including developing briefings and Q+A packs. Alongside this, the role will include policy development of future legislative options and new requirements for online supply chain actors.
The postholder will become part of an inclusive and friendly team.
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