Role title: Trusteeship, Administration & DB Funding Supervision Principal
TPR grade & pay group: Grade 6 & R&O
Directorate: Market Oversight
Starting salary: £63,089.00 Per Annum
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)
The Role And Responsibilities
As a Principal in Trusteeship, Administration & DB Funding Supervision, you will oversee complex supervisory work, drive improvements across the pensions market, and lead a team delivering engagements that support better outcomes for savers.
You'll join our Administration Relationships team, a specialist group within the Trusteeship, Administration & DB Funding Supervision Theme. The team works closely with third‑party administrators and trustees/scheme managers to strengthen the quality, resilience, and effectiveness of pension scheme administration.
You will provide expert judgement, and ensure your team delivers effective, risk‑based supervision across a diverse and evolving landscape. You will work collaboratively with trustees/scheme managers, advisers, administrators, industry bodies, and internal partners to address risks, improve practices, and uphold regulatory expectations.
You Will
Lead and develop a team of specialists, ensuring high performance, strong judgement, and delivery against TPR priorities.
Oversee complex and high‑impact interventions, providing guidance, challenge, and decision‑making on escalated issues.
Act as a senior point of expertise, ensuring assessments, recommendations, and regulatory actions are robust, timely, and evidence.
Drive continuous improvement, embedding new processes and working approaches across the team and helping colleagues build capability.
Engage proactively with trustees/scheme managers, advisers, administrators, and external stakeholders at senior levels to influence behaviours and shape outcomes.
Identify emerging risks and trends, sharing intelligence that supports early intervention and strategic planning.
Contribute to cross‑TPR priorities, collaborating with colleagues in enforcement, policy, strategy, and analysis to deliver joined‑up regulation.
Champion TPR's values and leadership behaviours, acting as a role model for inclusive, flexible and transparent working.
The role criteria
Essential
Deep experience in regulation or the pensions industry, with a strong track record of delivering successful outcomes in complex environments.
Demonstrable experience leading multi ‑ disciplinary teams of experienced professionals .
Strong coaching, mentoring, and people‑leadership skills.
Excellent influencing and negotiation skills, with credibility up to board level.
Strong critical thinking and sound decision‑making informed by robust evaluation of evidence.
Awareness of the financial, political, commercial, and social factors shaping the pensions landscape.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Ability to adapt leadership style to ensure the team is supported appropriately and to champion changes in working practices.
Experience of acting autonomously with confidence in decision‑
Strong analytical and problem‑solving skills — both for complex casework and for supporting team members.
Knowledge of Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information principles.
Experience of relationship management in regulatory, supervisory or pensions contexts.
Ability to assess and interpret complex information and convert it into clear, actionable strategies.
Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise effectively to meet deadlines.
Desirable
Experience engaging with pension administration providers or overseeing administration‑related risks, issues or service standards.
Experience using Artificial Intelligence tools to support process efficiency or decision‑
The team
TPR Offers
Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
A values-led, inclusive environment.
Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Women's).
Reward And Benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Find Out What Benefits a Civil Service Pension Provides.
Our culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government's workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you'll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We're committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.
Find out more about us.
Applications
To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.
Selection and interview
If you are shortlisted for interview, we'll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we're committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the criteria outlined in the 'what you will bring' section will be offered an interview.
Diversity and inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.
Further information
Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email .