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About the Role

Ofcom is the UK's communications regulator, shaping the future of how we stay connected. This role ensures Ofcom’s horizon scanning and strategic thinking activity is expert, evidence-based, and clearly communicated, providing strategic input and advice on a wide range of policy work.

Responsibilities

• Act in partnership with your fellow Strategy Director providing a joined-up view of the future of communications, the strategic opportunities and challenges for Ofcom, and seamless leadership to the team as a whole.
• Develop Ofcom’s organisational strategy working closely with groups across Ofcom on the three-year strategy, as well as the annual Plan of Work and reporting against delivery, ensuring risks are escalated as appropriate.
• Work to provide – and support the team to provide – strategic input and advice across a wide range of policy areas – with a particular focus on online and broadcasting markets - based on excellent understanding of likely future macro trends as well as technological, market and consumer developments.
• Lead and sponsor major cross‑cutting projects that shape the future direction of regulation, particularly in relation to media and online safety.
• Ensure high standards of analytical rigour, insight and creativity across all work, with decisions grounded in evidence and a strong understanding of commercial and technological dynamics.
• Represent Ofcom externally with senior stakeholders, government, industry, international partners and the public.
• Lead, inspire and develop diverse, high‑performing teams, creating an inclusive environment that supports learning, innovation and talent development.
• Work collaboratively with fellow Directors to lead the Strategy and Research Group, contributing to the Group's strategic direction, decision-making and culture.

Requirements

• Significant senior leadership experience in setting and delivering strategy, policy and complex programmes in large, matrixed or highly regulated organisations, with clear evidence of impact and an ability to bring colleagues with you.
• A strong track record of turning insight into clear strategic choices, shaping priorities and using that to inform organisational direction.
• Deep analytical capability, including synthesising complex evidence, market insight and external context to inform high‑quality, timely decision‑making.
• Strong commercial and economic awareness of the TMT sector, including understanding of incentives, investment dynamics, risk and system‑wide trade‑offs.
• Experience operating with collective accountability at executive level, while personally owning delivery and outcomes within defined areas of responsibility.
• Credibility and effectiveness in engaging up and out, including representing the organisation with senior stakeholders and influencing with integrity.
• Proven experience leading large, multidisciplinary teams, including setting clear priorities, enabling ownership and accountability, and developing future leadership capability.
• Experience operating at executive and Board level, including advising, influencing and constructively challenging senior decision‑makers.
• A strong record of leading through others to deliver outcomes at scale, while maintaining quality, pace and alignment across organisational boundaries.
• Experience directing significant budgets and resources, balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term value, sustainability, performance and risk.
• Inclusive leadership capability, creating the conditions for challenge, collaboration and high performance, and enabling people to contribute at their best.
• Experience leading organisations or functions through change, providing clarity, confidence and stability through ambiguity and transformation.
• Sound judgement in navigating complexity, ambiguity and competing priorities, balancing long‑term outcomes with risk and uncertainty.
• Curiosity and adaptability, with experience fostering innovation, learning and continuous improvement in themselves and others.
• A strong values base, consistently role‑modelling Ofcom’s values through inclusive, accountable and ethical leadership.
• Personal resilience and self‑awareness, with experience sustaining performance over time and supporting others to do the same.

Skills

• Strategy
• Insight
• Delivery
• Analytical capability
• Commercial awareness
• Economic awareness
• Stakeholder engagement
• Influencing
• Team leadership
• Budget management
• Change management
• Judgement
• Curiosity
• Adaptability
• Innovation
• Learning
• Continuous improvement
• Resilience
• Self-awareness

Location

• UK

Work Type

• Permanent
• Part-time hours
• Job shares
• Flexible arrangements

Experience Level

• Senior Management Specialist

Benefits

• Rewards, Benefits and Wellbeing

About the Company

• As the UK’s communications regulator, Ofcom is delivering vital work that helps keep the UK connected and shapes the future of how we’ll stay connected with each other.
• Our work covers everything from phones and broadband, through to TV, radio, the postal service, and wireless devices.
• We’re also taking on the challenge of making the online world a safer place.
• The Strategy and Policy (S&P) team is part of the Strategy and Research Group which brings together our research, public policy, international and strategy expertise to ensure Ofcom is served with insights and analysis that enable strategic choices.
• It is a group that is focussed on delivery today always in the context of the longer-term horizon.

Equal Opportunity

• At Ofcom, our mission is clear: to make communications work for everyone.
• To achieve that, our people must reflect the diversity of the UK, in background, identity and experience.
• We believe innovation thrives when difference is valued and everyone feels empowered to contribute their ideas and perspectives.
• That’s why we welcome colleagues of all ethnicities and races, sexes, genders and gender identities, sexual orientations, ages, faiths and beliefs, and those with apparent and non‑apparent disabilities.
• We value socio‑economic diversity, life experience and neurodiversity too.
• Whether you’re a carer, a parent, a veteran, or re‑entering work after time away, your voice and perspective matter here.
• Flexibility is at the heart of how we work because we want you to thrive in a way that suits you best.
• Most roles can therefore be adapted for part‑time hours, job shares, or other flexible arrangements.
• Our recruitment process is intentionally designed to be open and accessible.
• As a proud Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a role.
• Whoever you are, whatever your story, you belong at Ofcom.