Competition Economist

6 days ago

Manchester, United Kingdom Competition & Markets Authority Full time
About the Role

The Competition & Markets Authority is seeking a highly experienced and skilled Senior Economics Director to join our team. As a key member of our leadership team, you will play a critical role in helping us respond to the new challenges arising from the UK's exit from the EU and the increase in our 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 those raising complex economic issues.
  • Ensure that the economic work carried out by the CMA is of consistently high quality, represents state-of-the-art thinking, and plays a key role in ensuring that the CMA makes maximum impact.
  • Build strong collaborative relationships with those leading case teams to ensure effective economic evidence to support decisions.
  • Ensure a culture of economics is maintained, where economists share information on cases, provide analytical support to each other, 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.
  • 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.
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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