The Government Strategy Manager will play a key role for Nest, acting as primary point of contact with the Department for Work and Pensions and managing the relationship on behalf of the wider organisation. This will involve building up relationships with stakeholders across Nest and DWP to align priorities to promote the successful delivery of our strategy.
You will build expertise in the control environment, and provide support and share knowledge with colleagues. Your communication skills will be critical as you provide verbal and written briefings for senior leaders and board members, draft correspondence, and engage independently with government stakeholders.
You will shape the relationship at a strategic level to support delivery of key priorities and initiatives across Nest. You will provide stewardship for specific issues, as well as documenting interactions with government to maintain an overall view of the issues Nest is handling.
The role is being advertised on a fixed term basis, but there is a possibility of extension depending on business needs
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Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
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Directorate/Department Overview
With one in three UK workers saving with Nest and over £40 billion invested on behalf of the UK workforce, Nest is one of the largest pension schemes in the UK. Established in 2010, Nest was set up as a critical pillar of the government's automatic enrolment pension programme, with a public service obligation to accept any employer wishing to use the scheme. Nest exists to deliver better financial outcomes for our members, with a focus on delivering for the low to median earning population we were set up to serve and a commitment to invest responsibly and to return any profit we make to our members.
Now that NEST is operating in the market at scale, we are facing into a series of new challenges and opportunities: how can we evolve the business to best serve our membership, taking into account the obligations placed on the scheme due to the nature of our funding arrangements with Government? How should our strategies evolve and how can we best hold ourselves to account for delivering on those strategies? What does external change – in public policy, technology, regulation or consumer behaviour – tell us about how the scheme may need to adapt in future? And how can we influence that change to the benefit of our membership?
The Strategy and Transformation Directorate sits at the heart of Nest. It is responsible for defining and overseeing Nest's overarching strategy including our corporate purpose, vision and business priorities, and for helping the business ensure it is delivering in line with that strategic framework. The Directorate helps Nest engage with the outside world, in particular our key partners in government in order that we are best placed to understand and manage the risks and opportunities stemming from external change, including policy change.
This isn't your typical pensions industry job. We don't have shareholders to please and our values drive what we do. We are committed to delivering better retirement incomes for our membership, many of whom are low to middle income earners, and may be saving for a pension for the first time. We are industry leaders in responsible investment with huge potential to make a difference in relation to environmental, social and governance goals. We want people to look to the future with optimism and to give our members bigger pensions in a better world – not one or the other.
Organisational Overview
Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.
Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business. We're committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have disability, declare that you're applying through the scheme and meet the minimum criteria for this role, we aim to invite you to an interview. However, there may be a few exceptions where we are not able to take all eligible candidates to the next stage due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
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