Location: Belfast, Cardiff, Darlington, Edinburgh, London or Manchester
Salary: Up to £149,999 per annum
Hours: Full time / Part time / Flexible
Contract: Permanent
Are you a competition economist, with excellent leadership skills and considerable experience of working on competition law cases?
Do you have a proven track record of providing high quality and impactful economic advice?
Do you want to play a pivotal role in a world leading organisation where your work will truly make a real and positive impact on the UK economy and society?
Join the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) as a Senior Economics Director and play a critical role as we respond to the new challenges arising from the UK’s exit from the EU.
About the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour. Our work is wide ranging, ambitious and often new and challenging.
Following the UK’s exit from the EU there has been an increase in the CMA’s responsibilities. The CMA has become responsible for many of the larger and more complex international mergers and antitrust cases that were previously reserved to the European Commission. As a result of this, the diversity, number, and complexity of the cases we work on is increasing.
What you will do
As Senior Economics Director, you will work alongside the Chief Economic Adviser and the Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in leading the Economics Team.
The CMA is a particularly exciting and interesting place for an economist to work – and is set to become even more so over the next few years. Economics is at the heart of the CMA’s mission, and you will be too!
Economic analysis will be critical to how we respond to the new competition policy challenges that we face. You will have the opportunity to provide economic leadership on complex and important merger, markets, enforcement and digital regulation cases and ensure that the economic work carried out by the CMA is of consistently high quality.
You will be responsible for providing guidance on individual cases from their early stages, particularly with reference to those cases raising complex economic issues. You will ensure a ‘culture of economics’ is maintained in which economists share information on cases, and provide analytical support to each other, as well as be accountable for ensuring the optimal allocation of economic resources across the CMA’s projects.
As a senior leader, you will be closely involved in helping to grow, lead, maintain and develop the Economics Team’s culture, as well as play an active role in the ongoing corporate management and development of the organisation.
You will need to be a strong external advocate for competition in the UK, Europe and internationally and build strong relationships with counterparts, including competition and regulatory authorities, Government Departments, economic academics and consultants, and to represent the CMA externally.
What you will need
You will be an excellent, senior level competition economist with impressive academic and professional qualifications and experience, in addition to an outstanding track record of providing economic advice on complex cases, studies and enquiries.
You will bring an in-depth knowledge of competition and regulatory economics and current issues in the field to the role. You will also have the authority and ability to debate economic analysis with the foremost academic economists.
Extensive experience of building and leading teams is equally important as you will support the Chief Economic Adviser and the Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in managing and developing the 150+ economists at the CMA and ensure we continue to attract and retain high quality economists.
What we can offer you
In return the CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme and flexible working options.
To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.
Closing date for applications: 23:55 on 30 September 2024.
Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.
The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
