Senior Strategy Manager - Future Organisation Design and Capability

Ofgem is Great Britain’s independent energy regulator. Our primary responsibility is to protect energy consumers, especially the most vulnerable, while at the same time working with government, industry and consumer groups to deliver a clean, more affordable and secure net-zero energy system at the lowest cost to consumers and drive economic growth.

Ofgem has a culture of inclusion that encourages, supports and celebrates the diverse voices and experiences of our colleagues. It fuels our innovation and helps ensure we can best represent the consumers and the communities we serve. Everyone is welcome - as an inclusive workplace, our employees are comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work.

Role Purpose

Ofgem is considering how it needs to evolve as an organisation to respond to a changing energy system, wider changes across government and the regulatory environment, and the opportunities and challenges it is likely to face over the longer term.

The Future Organisation Design and Capability team leads the organisation-design and operating-model thinking that supports the development of Future Ofgem. We bring together evidence about how Ofgem operates today with exploration of the future, helping the organisation understand the capabilities, organisational arrangements and ways of working it may need to succeed over the longer term.

As a Senior Strategy Manager, you will play a key role in developing this work. You will lead defined pieces of strategic analysis, organisation-design and operating-model work, exploring how changes in Ofgem's strategic and operating context could affect how the organisation needs to work in future.

You will work on complex and emerging questions where there may not be an established answer. This could include identifying and testing assumptions about Ofgem's future operating context, exploring alternative futures, understanding relationships and dependencies across the organisation and wider system, and developing and testing operating-model hypotheses and options.

Working across Ofgem and with external partners, you will bring together evidence and different perspectives and translate them into practical insight about future capabilities, organisational choices and operating-model

Key Responsibilities

• Lead defined pieces of organisation-design and operating-model analysis, exploring how Ofgem may need to evolve to deliver its strategic ambitions and respond to changes in its operating environment.
• Bring together evidence about how Ofgem operates today and how its context may change in future, identifying implications for organisational capabilities, ways of working and operating-model choices.
• Develop and test organisational and operating-model hypotheses and options, considering areas such as capabilities, governance, decision-making, organisational boundaries, interfaces and enabling capabilities.
• Contribute to the development and testing of strategic shifts and central planning assumptions, helping to make important assumptions about Ofgem's future operating context explicit and assess their organisational implications.
• Use systems thinking, strategic foresight and futures approaches where appropriate to explore uncertainty, understand relationships and dependencies, challenge assumptions and test organisational choices against different plausible futures.
• Plan and lead research, stakeholder engagement and collaborative activity, drawing together evidence and perspectives from across Ofgem, government, other regulators and relevant external organisations.
• Synthesise complex and sometimes conflicting evidence into clear findings, options and recommendations, and communicate these effectively through high-quality briefings, papers and presentations for senior audiences.
• Work collaboratively across Ofgem and contribute to the development of the team's organisation-design and operating-model capability, taking ownership of substantial pieces of work and adapting priorities as Future Ofgem develops.

Must have an accreditation in change management? (e.g. PROSCI, APMG Change Management) If so, please state.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• 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)
• 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)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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You will 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. In the event of receiving a large number of applications, an initial sift may take place on the lead criteria indicated in the essential criteria.

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