Policy Manager

Policy Manager

• To develop, analyse and articulate corporate policy; ensuring the organisation takes an active, evidence-based and coherent approach to key business plan priorities and wider policy debates.
• To enable and support the design and implementation of corporate strategy.

• Using up-to-date evidence and market intelligence to inform policy development and analysis, giving the wider organisation actionable insights into strategic opportunities and risks.
• Leading policy thinking on key areas of financial capability, actively identifying opportunities to work with regulators, policymakers and financial services firms to ensure financial products, services and customer journeys enhance financial capability of UK consumers.
• Developing and managing policy projects to develop new insights and learning on consumer financial issues, with a particular focus on personal budgeting, and building short-term savings.
• Communicating and representing the organisation’s policy function to stakeholders in Government and the financial services industry.
• Work with communications colleagues to brief and advise senior managers and the CEO on the relationships with key external organisations.
• Engage colleagues across the organisation to ensure teams and functions understand key policy risks and opportunities; building a commissioning approach across the organisation by using and building evidence to understand consumer needs and identify the best evidence available on the potential solutions to build greater financial capability.
• Developing and facilitating the organisation’s strategy, working with senior colleagues to optimise strategy development process drawing on appropriate frameworks and tools to explore options and optimisedecision-making including providing policy expertise and steer to other organisations taking forward projects to pilot and evaluate interventions to improve financial capability.

• Contribute toorganisational initiatives andprojects as a constructive team member, ensuring that objectives achieved and the organisation’s values are embedded in the work we do, with a particular focus on supporting and driving forward cross-organisational work to deliver MAS’s business plan aim on helping those most at risk of financial shocks to budget and save.

• Demonstrable experience of designing, developing and communicating policy

• Understanding and practical experience of applying economic principles to policy analysis.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills; able to communicate complex issues clearly and confidently to non-technical audiences, face-to-face and in writing.
• Solid understanding of the UK political frameworks, policy development processesand legislative contexts,including the devolved nations.
• Experience and expertise in processes and methods for gathering consumer, stakeholder and market insights and applying these to policy and strategies.
• Proven expertise analysing data across multiple sources to understand and communicate the impact on consumers and implications for policy.
• Awareness of and interest in financial services and consumer policy issues.
• Experience of working with internal colleagues and commissioned third parties to successfully deliver complex policy projects
• Skills and experience in influencing and managing stakeholder relationships at a senior level.
• Capability to manage projects and tasks flexibly and adaptively as required as an effective team member.
• Interest and experience in organisational strategy and organisational development.