Strategic Policy and Compliance Team Leader
Posted by: Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA)
Employed By: Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA)
Job Title: Strategic Policy and Compliance Team Leader
Pay Band: G7
Number of posts: 1
Reference: 400897
Application Deadline: Tuesday 29 April 2025
About the Pubs Code Adjudicator
The Pubs Code Adjudicator (PCA) was established by the Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Act 2015. Fiona Dickie was reappointed to the role of the Pubs Code Adjudicator in May 2024 for a further three-year term of office.
The role of the PCA is to enforce the statutory Pubs Code (the Code) which came into force in July 2016. The Code regulates the relationship between large pub-owning businesses and their tied tenants (a tied tenant is someone who is obliged to buy at least some of their alcohol from their landlord, sometimes with other products or services, usually in return for a reduced rent). The PCA is independent, with powers to arbitrate individual Code disputes and investigate suspected breaches of the Code. You can find out more about the PCA’s first investigation here. The Code applies to pub-owning businesses who own 500 or more tied pubs in England and Wales.
Further information on PCA can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/pubs-code-adjudicator
About the role
This is a fascinating time to take up a role in the office of the PCA’s (OPCA) Regulatory team. This is an important role, which is pivotal to the delivery of a challenging regulatory agenda as part of the PCA’s 3-year strategy, published in August 2022.
The G7 role main areas of responsibility are:
· developing, delivering and reviewing your team’s work programme that supports strategic objectives and priorities, working with and across the organisation to identify regulatory and compliance concerns and develop ways to address them
· leading your team’s compliance and policy casework and resources alongside your own, ensuring regulatory activities (including any investigation), are progressed appropriately to deliver a broad range of proactive and reactive work
· developing and implementing our regulatory approaches and processes
· managing delivery and meeting of the PCA’s internal and external KPIs; setting clear goals and priorities and supporting others to solve problems, overcome challenges, seek feedback etc
· leading on the delivery of high quality, timely, and robust analysis of core issues and regulatory policy options, resulting in evidence based and deliverable recommendations
· leading key projects, including responsibility for regulatory stakeholder engagement, prioritising, planning and delivering work
· ensuring decision makers consider relevant legislation and regulation and specific case issues, and escalates critical issues as needed
· Line management responsibility for one SEO
This role requires you to be a motivated, self-starter with the drive to deliver on the PCA’s mission to protect fairness in the tied tenant business relationship. You will need to work collaboratively with the PCA team to engage and communicate with stakeholders, gather and analyse information, monitor compliance and improvements in the sector, and consider appropriate levers to ensure effective and proportionate regulation.
Person Specification
Skills, experience and qualifications (Essential)
· experience identifying, analysing and articulating complex policy, regulatory or legal problems, working with other professionals to develop solutions and options,
· experience developing and drafting policy and/or regulation
· experience presenting recommendations to senior leaders that consider trade-offs, risks and dependencies to aid effective decision making
· experience reviewing compliance generating ideas as to next steps and leading on workstreams
· ability to apply judgement and flexibility to generate ideas and solve problems to achieve strategic objectives.
· ability to understand and apply complex legislation in a practical context, knowing when to seek advice.
· ability to influence others by communicating complicated matters in plain English
Skills, experience and qualifications (Desirable)
Experience of any of the following:
· working in a regulator or a regulated environment and having a clear understanding of approaches to regulation,
· developing policy or regulatory regimes,
· working with Ministers and Parliament,
· intelligence-gathering and/or enforcement activity.
You will be leading on intelligence, monitoring compliance and identifying areas requiring further action. You will be making regulatory recommendations to the PCA and senior managers, presenting your conclusions and identifying options for regulatory action.
The PCA is a small agile regulator that requires a flexible approach to delivery and is a real opportunity to influence and shape policy. There are great opportunities to work collaboratively with senior team members and engage with a diverse range of stakeholders both across government and externally. We come together regularly in the office for team meetings and training related to the Pubs Code and the pub trade. The PCA offers the opportunity to develop new skills and experience by working flexibly across different areas of the business. There are also opportunities to represent the PCA at trade events, undertake pub visits, engage with pub company representatives and develop broader skills and secure qualifications.
How to Apply
To apply for this post please follow the instructions on the CS Jobs website.
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and throughout the recruitment process we will assess your Behaviours, Skills and Experience.
You should consider all of the requirements as detailed in the role responsibilities and set out the evidence to show that you have the appropriate skills, knowledge and experience for the post.
You will be asked to complete the following.
A CV.
A Personal statement (up to 500 words) setting out how your skills and experience meet the requirements of the role.
The sift will be based on the CV and Personal Statement.