Cma2066

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 344314**Salary**:

- £128,966 - £149,999- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- SCS Pay Band 2**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Legal Services
- Senior leadership**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 2Contents

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About the job

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Location
- Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, ManchesterAbout the job

**Job summary**:
This is a unique and exciting opportunity to join the senior leadership of the Legal Service of one of the world’s top competition authorities.

The CMA has a wide and growing range of powers, which it uses to undertake a wide variety of cutting edge, high profile and complex work, spanning merger and market inquiries, competition and consumer law enforcement, subsidy advice and internal market advice. If you are motivated by a dynamic and challenging environment where you will be a highly influential senior leader shaping the CMA’s essential work in the public interest, playing a pivotal role in the leadership and management of CMA’s highly talented Legal Service comprising over 150 lawyers, then this could be the ideal role for you.

As a CMA Senior Legal Director, you will work closely with the CMA’s General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel, and hold a pivotal position in fulfilling the CMA's mission. Your leadership and vision will guide legal teams, shape CMA strategy, and ensure the provision of top-tier legal advice and thorough analysis across all aspects of the CMA's casework. The legal teams, under the guidance of Senior Legal Directors, operate in close collaboration with project teams and decision-makers from the inception of an investigation to the final decisions and any ensuing litigation, fostering an integrated approach throughout the process.

We are recruiting two Senior Legal Directors to join this team as senior competition lawyers with established track records of delivering complex and strategic legal advice, a strong understanding of the policy challenges and opportunities facing the CMA and significant experience of leading and motivating professional teams. On appointment, you can expect to have a leading role, spearheading the provision of senior-level and strategic legal advice and overseeing balanced legal risk management across one or more CMA directorates, such as Mergers and Markets, Competition Enforcement, Consumer Enforcement, the Office of the Internal Market, Subsidy Advice, and/or the Digital Markets Unit.

You can find more information about working for the CMA here.

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Closing date: 11:55pm on Monday 15 April 2024

**Job description**:
The roles will include primary leadership of legal input across a portfolio of CMA cases and shared leadership of the legal work supporting the establishment of the DMU and associated digital markets work.

The roles will involve extensive senior engagement throughout the CMA and externally, working closely with, amongst others, the General Counsel, the Deputy General Counsel, and other Executive and Senior Directors and providing direct and final advice to individual case decision makers.

It may also be possible to assume senior leadership duties for overseeing the CMA's Policy & International Directorate. This division offers cohesive policy and international assistance across the CMA's competition and consumer sectors, entailing engagement with vital UK and international stakeholders and counterparts.
- The post holder can be located in any of our locations, but a substantial amount of time will need to be spent in London._

Senior Legal Directors have overall senior responsibility for the legal and policy input and analysis on the cases in their portfolio (akin to a partner in a law firm) and will lead and manage a team of Legal Directors and case lawyers.

**Key responsibilities**
- To be accountable at senior level collaboratively for the quality and robustness of the legal advice and analysis underpinning the development of CMA investigations, provisional and final decisions, and related litigation ensuring that CMA lawyers have the capability to deliver high quality and robust legal support to case work and policy development.
- To ensure delivery of timely, strategic and authoritative legal analysis and policy advice in relation to the most analytically complex and important issues arising in relation to the CMA’s work, including advising the CMA Board, Executive Committee, Case and Policy Committee, other senior stakeholders and individual case decision makers and project teams.
- To provide a high degree of strategic insight, balanced risk management and expertise on key legal and policy issues as they arise, as