Assistant Director, Mergers

Location: Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester     

Salary: £78,600 - £84,450 per annum

Hours: Full time / Part time / Flexible

Contract: Permanent

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.

What you will do

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.

What you will need

You will have a proven track record of undertaking projects related to merger control or other competition/antitrust cases, either as a lawyer, project delivery professional, or economist.

You will demonstrate significant experience of making decisions, using your sound analysis and judgment.

Along with your excellent communication skills, you will possess experience of working collaboratively and building relationships both internally and externally, including with senior decision-makers and stakeholders.

You will also have experience of leading and developing staff and motivating professional teams in the delivery of successful projects or work streams.

What we can offer you

In return the CMA is a hugely diverse, rewarding and stimulating place to work – an opportunity to work for the public good and to stretch and develop yourself in doing so. We offer generous benefits, including an excellent pension scheme, at least 25 days leave (increasing to 30 over five years), and generous maternity/paternity leave provision. You can also take advantage of interest-free season ticket loans, a cycle to work scheme, our employee assistance programme and flexible working options.

To find out more about this opportunity and about working for the CMA, please click on the APPLY button.

Closing date for applications: 11:55pm, 23^rd September 2024.

Like many other organisations, we operate a hybrid working model with a mix of office and home working. We believe this supports us to deliver our best work while allowing the flexibility to maintain balanced and healthy lives.

The CMA are an accredited Disability Confident Employer, and we are an equal opportunities employer, welcoming suitably qualified applicants from all backgrounds.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.