Senior Strategy Manager

Successful candidates may be based in any of our office locations – Cardiff, Glasgow, or London. We especially welcome applicants from Cardiff and Glasgow.

Hybrid working – on average, currently one day per week in the office, or approximately 20% of the month.

Job summary

At a pivotal moment for Britain’s energy future, Ofgem is making important strategic decisions that will shape how we deliver Net Zero. We’re recruiting three Senior Strategy Managers to help guide this work and support our long‑term direction.

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. We play a central role in the transition to Net Zero while ensuring energy consumers are protected, with particular focus on those in vulnerable circumstances.

We are offering three permanent roles within our Strategy, Economics, Research and Net Zero (SERN) Directorate. These positions provide a rare opportunity to contribute to Ofgem’s long‑term strategy and support the implementation of the Government’s Review of Ofgem — a significant programme that will influence how we work and regulate for years to come.

This role offers varied, collaborative work with colleagues across Ofgem, DESNZ and a wide range of external partners. You will shape strategic workstreams, support clear decision‑making, and translate high‑level goals into practical plans. Working across directorates, you will help ensure policy teams are aligned with our overall strategy and able to respond to system change and emerging challenges.

You’ll join a supportive team that oversees our strategic cycle, from analysis and development through to implementation and communication. The role provides the chance to contribute to meaningful organisational and sector‑wide change, and is well suited to someone experienced in delivering strategic projects in government, a regulatory environment, or the private sector.

Job description

We’re looking for candidates with strong analytical and strategic coordination skills, who can work with complex information and present it clearly. You will bring experience of engaging senior stakeholders, balancing multiple priorities, and supporting delivery in evolving environments. Knowledge of the energy sector and the transition to Net Zero will be helpful.

In return, you’ll join a central team working closely with senior leadership to shape Ofgem’s future direction. We offer hybrid working, a generous civil service pension and leave package, and the opportunity to contribute to nationally significant reform at a key moment for the energy system.

Our purpose is to support a cleaner, fairer and more resilient energy system. In this role, you will help turn that purpose into practical action, supporting change across the organisation and ensuring we are prepared for the challenges ahead.

Person specification

Essential:

• Strategic coordination: Experience operating in ambiguity to coordinate organisational responses to major contextual changes, alongside delivering routine strategic processes. (LEAD)
• Strategic and analytical skills: Ability to synthesise complex information, identify key issues and emerging trends, and solve policy/regulatory problems using insight from diverse sources and professions. (LEAD)
• Stakeholder engagement: Proven ability to build collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders, using strong influencing skills to secure outcomes.
• Energy expertise: Knowledge of the energy sector and an understanding of the transformation required to reach net zero.
• Teamwork: A positive, flexible, ‘can‑do’ approach, working effectively within a team and contributing to a sustainable, high‑performing environment.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Delivering at Pace

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £47,895, OFGEM contributes £13,875 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Ofgem can offer you a comprehensive and competitive benefits package which includes; 30 days annual leave after 2 years; Excellent training and development opportunities; The opportunity to join the generous Civil Service pension which also includes a valuable range of benefits; hybrid working (currently 1 day a week in the office but this is kept under review), flexible working hours and family friendly policies. Plus lots of other benefits including clean and bright offices based centrally, engaged networks and teams and an opportunity to contribute to our ambitious and important targets of establishing a Net Zero energy system by 2050. This exciting blend of professional challenge and personal reward identifies career opportunities at Ofgem as something to get excited about.

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.

When you press the ‘Apply now’ button, you will be asked to complete personal details (not seen by the sift panel), your career history and qualifications.

You will then be asked to provide a 1250 word ‘personal statement’ evidencing how you meet the essential skills and capabilities listed in the role profile. Please ensure you demonstrate clearly, within your supporting statement, how you meet each of the criteria listed in the role profile.

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice, and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by [https://www.cifas.org.uk/fpn].

At Ofgem, we expect our staff to carry out their roles with honesty, fairness and openness. They should follow the Civil Service code and be free from any influence or bias. We are committed to making sure interests are recognised, declared and managed appropriately so that we can fulfil our duties as an energy regulator. Our Conflicts of Interest policy outlines the types of interests Ofgem staff must declare before onboarding, and the rules they must follow throughout employment so that we can clearly demonstrate that our decisions are not influenced by private interests.

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