Assistant Director, Mergers
Competition & Markets Authority
Apply before 11:55 pm on Monday 23rd September 2024
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About the job
Job summary
Are you a competition lawyer, project delivery professional, or economist, with a proven track record in leading projects related to merger control, competition or antitrust cases?
Do you want to use your skills and expertise to make a real and positive impact on the UK economy and society.
Join the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and play a key role in ensuring mergers bring benefits to the economy and help businesses and markets grow.
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.
The CMA’s Mergers team investigates UK qualifying mergers across all economic sectors, from retail shops to digital markets, helping to ensure that mergers do not substantially lessen competition and lead to worse market outcomes for UK consumers.
We are fully committed to being a flexible, respectful and inclusive employer. It is a priority to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we welcome applications from under-represented groups.
You can read more about working at the CMA in our candidate pack
Job description
You will support the Mergers Directors in leading on either Phase 1 or Phase 2 merger control cases, helping to set the overall direction and strategy for a case and ensuring that decisions are robust and delivered in a timely and efficient manner.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Leading, motivating and managing multi-disciplinary professional teams, fostering effective and collaborative team working
- Overseeing and advising case teams on evidence analysis
- Developing and maintaining open, professional and proactive engagement with parties and other external stakeholders, often at very senior levels
As part of the Mergers management team, you will be involved in shaping the CMA’s mergers policy and practice. You will help to address the challenges raised by novel substantive and procedural issues in UK merger control, including those raised by mergers in digital markets and multi-jurisdictional cases.
Person specification
It is essential that you can provide evidence and examples for each of the following selection criteria in your application. For tips on how to make the most of your application, please have a look at our guidance document.
- A proven track record of undertaking projects related to merger control or other competition/antitrust cases, as a lawyer, project delivery professional, or economist. (Lead Criteria)
- Significant experience of leading and developing staff and motivating professional teams in the delivery of successful projects (or work streams within projects).(Lead Criteria)
- Significant experience of making decisions, using sound analysis and judgement, taking account of the wider context.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to draft a range of documents for a wide variety of audiences.
- Strong experience of working collaboratively and building relationships internally and externally, including with senior decision-makers and stakeholders.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Making Effective Decisions
- Working Together
- Leadership
- Seeing the Big Picture
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Merger Control
Benefits
You’ll also get:
- 25 days leave (increasing to 30 days over five years), plus 8 public holidays and an additional day off for the King’s birthday. In addition, you’ll be able to access a wide range of other types of leave as and when you need it, including generous maternity, paternity, shared parental leave and adoption options, as well as paid special leave for volunteering
- Season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, flu vaccinations and eye tests
- Access to the Civil Service Sports & Leisure, giving discounted gym membership, high street discounts, free access to UK wide attractions and a free Tastecard
- A range of wellbeing benefits, including an employee assistance programme, flexible working options and family friendly policies, regular networking events and professional learning opportunities at work
You can read more about our benefits in our candidate pack.
Our Values
We are Ambitious and Evidence-based, and always strive for Excellence. We treat everyone with Respect and are Collaborative and Inclusive.
Everything we do is underpinned by the Civil Service values: Honesty, Integrity, Impartiality and Objectivity.
You can read more about life at the CMA in our candidate pack.
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Selection process details
You will also be assessed on the following Value:
- Collaborative
As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV, personal statement and an online application form. Further details about application requirements are listed on the application form.
The selection process will comprise of the sift (CV & application review) and an interview, which includes a written exercise and presentation.
Please note that it is essential that your personal statement is aligned to provide evidence that you have the knowledge and experience for each of the essential selection criteria (as included on the role profile attached and listed above under 'Person Specification') in your application.
The closing date for applications is 23 September 2024 (11.55pm).
We cannot accept applications submitted after the closing date and time.
The sift will take place from 23 to 27 September 2024.
Interviews are planned to take place from 11 October onwards. Those invited to interview will be asked to complete a written exercise and prepare a short presentation, details of which will be provided in advance of the interview.
The interview will be a 1 hour panel interview, beginning with your presentation. You will be asked questions based on the Behaviours, Technical and Experience elements outlined in the role profile.
Interviews will take place at a CMA office or via MS teams.
Reasonable adjustments
We want to make sure no one is at a disadvantage during our recruitment process because of a disability, condition or impairment. To assist you with this, we will reduce or remove any barriers where possible and provide additional support where appropriate.
If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should complete the “Assistance required” section in the “Additional requirements” page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need during the recruitment process. You can also email recruitment@cma.gov.uk.
For example, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if you are deaf, a Language Service Professional. You might also require additional time to complete a timed assessment or a sign language interpreter to support with the relaying of information.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Serena Connor
- Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk
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