Senior Economics Director

2 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom Competition & Markets Authority Full time
Job Title: Senior Economics Director

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is seeking a highly skilled Senior Economics Director to join its team. As a key member of the Chief Economic Adviser's leadership team, you will play a critical role in helping the CMA respond to the new challenges arising from the UK's exit from the EU and the increase in the CMA's responsibilities.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Support the Chief Economic Adviser and Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in leading the economics profession at the CMA, ensuring the development of a strong, intellectually rigorous and responsive culture.
  • Provide guidance on individual cases from their early stages, particularly with reference to those cases raising complex economic issues.
  • Support the Chief Economic Adviser and Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in ensuring that the economic work carried out by the CMA is of consistently high quality, represents state-of-the-art thinking, plays a key role in ensuring that the CMA makes maximum impact and is appropriately communicated to specialist and other audiences.
  • Build strong collaborative relationships with those leading case teams to ensure effective economic evidence to support decisions.
  • Ensure a culture of economics is maintained in which economists share information on cases, provide analytical support to each other, cascade development ideas and feel part of a professional grouping.
  • Have direct line management responsibility for several SCS PB1 Economic Directors.
  • Support the Chief Economic Adviser and Deputy Chief Economic Adviser in managing and developing the talents of the 150+ economists at the CMA and to ensure we continue to attract and retain high quality economists at the CMA.
  • Be accountable for ensuring the optimal allocation of economic resources across the CMA's projects to ensure the effective and robust delivery of the CMA's caseload.
  • 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 through public speaking engagements, including potentially as an expert witness in litigation.
Person Specification:
  • Excellent competition economist with impressive academic and professional qualifications and experience, holding at least a Masters degree in a branch of economics relevant to competition policy.
  • Considerable experience of working on the economics of competition law cases, with a proven strong track record of providing high quality and impactful economic advice.
  • Evidence of the ability to lead, plan and direct cases, working to tight deadlines, using cutting edge technical and theoretical concepts.
  • Ability to debate economic analysis with the foremost academic and consulting economists.
  • Excellent interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to communicate and explain complex issues with clarity, simplicity and precision to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • A track record of strong leadership and team management in all aspects of people management and development, including priority setting, recruitment, staff appraisal, career development and motivation.
  • A commitment to promoting a culture of respect, equality, diversity and inclusion.


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