Thank you for your interest in joining the Consumer & Competition Policy Directorate in the Department for Business and Trade. We are very glad to see that you are considering our Directorate for your next step in your career. We offer challenging, interesting and fulfilling career opportunities.
The Department for Business and Trade is a great place to work – people are enabled and supported to perform to their best and the culture is energetic, collaborative, kind and inclusive with excellent flexible working.
The Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate is at the heart of the Government’s growth agenda. What we do affects businesses, consumers and the overall economy. Getting it right is therefore critically important and we pride ourselves on the quality of our analysis providing the basis for our policy advice and our project delivery. The Consumer and Competition Policy Directorate in DBT aims to create competitive markets that benefit consumers and businesses. The Directorate aims to be evidence-driven, engaged, collaborative, innovative and influential. We have a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion.
The Directorate has four teams: Competition Policy; Consumer Policy, Subsidy Control; and Analysis, Corporate Support and Digital Markets, where this role sits.
The Head of Consumer & Competition Analysis will lead a team of c.10 analysts, leading the Directorate’s research, appraisal and evaluation work and ensuring the analytical underpinning of all the Directorate’s work is robust.
The jobholder will lead the analytical strategy and analytical input into consumer and competition policy issues across the directorate. The team consists of c.10 analysts, currently mainly from the Government Economic Service (GES) with some from the Government Social Research (GSR) profession. The team carries out a wide variety of work, working closely with policy teams. This includes, building the evidence base through procuring primary research to use as a springboard for policy-making, carrying out appraisal (including delivering Impact Assessments) to inform policy design, and undertaking monitoring and evaluation of policy to learn lessons for the future.
Notable examples of recent work include:
* Analysis to support the consultation on the resale of live events tickets (‘secondary ticketing’).
* Research procured to understand the prevalence and potential harm of defaults in online shopping.
* Delivery of impact assessments to support the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers bill to understand the impact of reforms to address subscription traps and changes to merger control.
The team works closely with other areas of DBT including the Central Analysis Team and the Department’s Chief Analyst and with other government departments including No 10, HMT and DSIT. It also has good links with key stakeholders such as the CMA, consumer organisations such as Citizens Advice and Which? and academia.
Responsibilities include:
* Working collaboratively with the CCP policy teams and senior leadership team to ensure that CCP policy advice is evidence-based, rigorous and founded on sound analysis.
* Managing a programme of externally delivered analytical projects, ensuring that outputs are delivered to time, provide value for money, and maximise impact on strategic thinking, horizon scanning, and policy development, delivery and evaluation.
* Providing analytical thought leadership to ensure the delivery of high quality, influential analysis.
* Building capability within the team to deliver its objectives, and enhancing its reputation as a centre of expertise on consumer, competition and subsidy control policy analysis – as well as building capability and understanding of analysis within the wider directorate and beyond.
* Contributing to the Department for Business and Trade senior analytical community to maintain analytical excellence and optimal Department-wide collaboration and processes.
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