Deputy Director, Products and Sectors Regulation
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 07 Hydref 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | £81,000 i £117,800 bob blwyddyn |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Hydref 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham |
| Cwmni: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 431885/2 |
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The Office for Product Safety and Standards (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.
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