The CMAs purpose is to promote competition and protect consumers with a clear end goal - to drive economic growth and improve household prosperity. The CMAs Competition Enforcement Directorate (CED) plays a key role in achieving this purpose by detecting and enforcing against anti-competitive conduct including hardcore cartels, anti-competitive agreements and abuses of dominant positions. A particular focus of our competition enforcement work is tackling illegal bid-rigging in public procurement.
CED is also committed to building on the CMAs transformative 4Ps work by improving and streamlining key elements of processes that help to detect and deter illegal activity. As part of this commitment, we are working together with the CMAs Data Technology and Insights (DTI) Directorate on a project to produce and implement a digital-first redesign of end‑to‑end competition enforcement workflows to enable the delivery of bid-rigging cases at scale.
The postholder will lead CEDs day-to-day contribution to this project, working closely with CED and DTI colleagues to identify, design and implement improvements to workflows in competition enforcement cases.
The successful candidate will have significant practical knowledge of competition enforcement law, processes and procedures, and the ability to apply that knowledge to improve how enforcement work is delivered.
They will also need to be able to think creatively and strategically about process improvement, communicate complex issues clearly, and work effectively with specialist colleagues, particularly in DTI.
