The CMA is looking to appoint a Deputy Chief Economic Adviser. This is a newly created post that will be a key member of the Chief Economic Adviser’s leadership team. Together with the Chief Economic Adviser, you will lead the economics profession at the CMA, drive the quality of economic work carried out by the CMA, and ensure the development of a strong, intellectually rigorous and responsive culture. You will provide economic leadership on complex and important merger, markets and enforcement cases and will ensure that the economic work carried out by the CMA is of consistently high quality, represents innovative thinking and plays a key role in ensuring that CMA achieves maximum impact on a national and global stage.
You will be an excellent senior level 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. You will have an outstanding track record of providing high quality economic advice on complex cases, studies and enquiries, and an in-depth knowledge of competition and regulatory economics and current issues in the field. You will also bring extensive experience of building and managing teams, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, and proven ability to explain complex issues with clarity, simplicity and precision to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
Our mission is to make markets work well in the interests of consumers, businesses and the economy. Our goal is to become a world leader in competition and consumer protection work. Our work is both complex and compelling, with the potential to impact on the lives of everyone in the UK.
For further information about the role, please download the candidate pack atwww.veredus.co.uk reference 925781. For a confidential discussion, contact our consultants at Veredus Nataliya Starik-Bludova on 020 7932 4265 or James Greengrass on 020 7932 4286.
Closing date for applications: Friday, 27th February 2015
The CMA is an equal opportunities employer.
