Principal Adviser – Digital Markets Unit

Are you excited about the potential of tech, but concerned how it may affect society?

Do you want to use your casework/project management skills to benefit the public good and make a real impact on millions of people and businesses in the UK?

Join the Digital Markets Unit at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and play a role to support competition and innovation for the benefit of consumers.

About the 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 Digital Markets Unit has been established to promote greater competition and innovation in Digital Markets, for the benefit of consumers and people. Our work focuses on some of the most important Digital Markets used by consumers and business in the UK, like online search, social media, app stores and online marketplaces.

What you will do

You will work closely with economists, legal, business and finance advisers across the CMA as part of a multidisciplinary team. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Leading and/or project managing the day-to-day delivery of a case
• Monitoring milestones, planning and driving workstreams forward to ensure quality and pace of the project is maintained
• Leading and contributing to the drafting and preparation of key documents, including correspondence, requests for information, internal papers and published reports
• Leading the engagement and management of key strategic relationships, including communications with stakeholders and other regulators
• Working closely with colleagues across the CMA to build our understanding and evidence base in key digital sectors 
• Working closely with colleagues across the CMA to review a range of qualitative and quantitative evidence to assess which digital firms have ‘Strategic Market Status’
• Working closely with colleagues on setting the rules to be placed on digital firms to address market power and promote competition

What you will need

Experience of leading work within multi-disciplinary teams to successfully manage and deliver case work (or project work) including managing others to deliver results within challenging timeframes is essential.

You will also need experience of developing and drafting recommendations by drawing on analysis of a wide range of information and identifying and communicating key risks.

We are interested in candidates from a range of backgrounds with transferable skills. This could include regulatory, legal or investigatory case management experience. Equally, any previous experience in the following fields could be beneficial: project management and delivery, research, policy, government, regulatory, or economics.

What we can offer you

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 with an average employer contribution of 27%, 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 our extensive flexible working options.

The Digital Markets Team (DMU) will host a drop-in session for prospective candidates interested in working for the CMA. Candidates are invited to join a virtual session where the team will explain the work of the DMU and you can hear from existing team members about their experiences. Recruiting managers will be on hand to ask any questions you may have about the vacancies in team.  

We are also recruiting for a Principal Project Officer for which you should make a separate application.

We will run the session over Microsoft Teams from 17.00 on 18.00 on 4 June 2024, to register your interest please visit -  Live Q&A Event: working in the CMA’s Digital Markets Unit Tickets, Tue, Jun 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite

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

Closing date for applications: 10June 2024, 23.55.

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.