Job Vacancy Director of Digital Markets - Competition & Markets Authority - SCS1

It is essential that you can provide evidence and examples for each of the following selection criteria in your application.

An initial sift based may be held on the two criteria points listed as 'Lead Criteria', if a large number of applications are received.

• A proven track record of working in senior policy roles with extensive project delivery experience and an understanding of business, consumer and competition issues in digital markets (lead criteria).

• Experience of providing strong, inclusive leadership to lead, develop and inspire multi-disciplinary teams through times of uncertainty and change, offering a compelling vision behind which a team can unite and to promote a culture of respect, equality, diversity and inclusion (lead criteria).

• Significant experience building and engaging a network of strategic relationships with businesses and consumers and successfully using these connections to communicate and influence the delivery of priorities, particularly including government(s).

• Exceptional strategic thinking, and decision-making, proactively managing risks including the ability to deliver complex work while maintaining an awareness of the broader political, economic and international context.

Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

The CMA is a particularly exciting and interesting place to work right now, and the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Act has given the CMA significant new responsibilities, through the UK’s new pro-competition digital markets regime, to promote greater competition and innovation in digital markets, in the interests of people, businesses and the economy. We are seeking a Director to join our Digital Markets team implementing the new regime.

About the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)

The CMA is an independent non-ministerial UK government department and is the UK’s principal competition and consumer protection authority. We help people, businesses, and the UK economy by promoting competitive markets and tackling unfair behaviour.

We provide the opportunity to work across all sectors of the UK economy, undertaking objective, evidence-based analysis that can have a direct and substantial impact on the economy and economic prosperity.

To find out more about the role and about life at the CMA, please review our .