Senior Digital Markets Adviser

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• Location
• About the job
• Benefits
• Things you need to know
• Apply and further information

Belfast, Cardiff, Edinburgh, London, Manchester

About the job

Job summary

Are you ready to shape and influence the digital markets sector? We are seeking a dedicated Senior Digital Markets Adviser to join our innovative Digital Markets Unit (DMU). This position offers an exciting opportunity to support a pro-competition digital markets regime that will benefit both consumers and businesses in the UK.

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 DMU 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.

It is an exciting time to join the DMU – we are passionate about what we do and offer a supportive environment, with opportunities to be involved in a wide range of interesting work.

We are also recruiting for a Senior Project Officer, Digital Markets for which you would need to make a separate application.

The 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 will run the session over Microsoft Teams from 5.30 pm on 6.30 pm 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.

You can read more about working at the CMA in our candidate pack.

Job description

As a Senior Digital Markets Adviser, you will lead and contribute to the delivery of the CMA’s pro-competition digital markets regime. You will collaborate closely with economists, legal professionals, and business and finance advisers as part of a multidisciplinary team. Your role will involve working on substantive assessments and investigations to evaluate Strategic Market Status (SMS), setting rules for digital firms, monitoring compliance, and engaging in broader strategy and stakeholder work. This is a dynamic role that requires a keen eye for detail and the ability to manage multiple high-profile projects simultaneously.

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 your application, please have a look at our guidance document.

Essential:

• Experience researching, analysing documents and drawing together different sources of information to develop and draft recommendations and progress work (lead criteria).
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to deliver tasks by working with others within challenging timescales, reprioritising where necessary and ensuring decisions are made at the appropriate level (lead criteria).
• Experience building relationships with stakeholders, both internal and external, including those from other professional backgrounds.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences (verbal and written), tailoring communications appropriately and securing buy-in to ideas.

Desirable

• Regulatory, legal or investigatory case management experience (i.e. progressing workstreams according to legal related or statutory timeframes).
• Previous experience or roles in the following fields could be beneficial: management and delivery, analytical, research, policy, government, regulatory, or economics.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Delivering at Pace
• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing
• Working Together
• Seeing the Big Picture

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,000, Competition & Markets Authority contributes £12,420 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

As well as the interesting and varied work you’ll do to contribute to effective competition in the UK, and to ensure consumers get a good deal when buying goods and services, you’ll also benefit from:

• An exceptionally generous pension scheme with a significant employer contribution and range of options, including a tax-free lump sum at the point of retirement and injury, ill-health and life assurance benefits
• 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.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

• Name : Sarah Pina
• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk
• Telephone : 0208 738 6808

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@cma.gov.uk

Further information

If your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact Recruitment@cma.gov.uk in the first instance. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk.

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