Do you have the stakeholder management skills to maintain relationships across government, local authorities, and businesses in Scotland?

Do you have a proven track record of working in or engaging with public policy?

Join the Advocacy, Nations and External Relations team and play a key role engaging with key partners to influence policy across Scotland that will benefit the public good.

About the Competition and Markets Authority (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 Advocacy, Nations and External Relations team is the CMA’s centre for stakeholder engagement. A core part of our work is managing our relationships with stakeholders across the policy, business and consumer landscape in Scotland and how the CMA uses its voice.

What you will do

You will be responsible for leading the stakeholder engagement programme in Scotland and will be a key source of advice on how the CMA should engage in Scotland to influence policy debates to promote competition.

Alongside the wider Advocacy, Nations and External Relations team, you will facilitate the provision of advice and information to the government and local authorities, and lead our engagement with key stakeholders, such as consumer, business and third sector groups.

You will maintain relationships with government and elected representatives and the business, consumer and regulatory communities, extending the CMA’s influence and promoting the CMA’s work.

You will also identify opportunities to shape the policy agenda, ensuring policies, both at a national and local level, take account of market thinking and consumer interests.

What you will need

A proven track record of working in or engaging with public policy, with a working level understanding of how devolution, and how the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament work is essential.

You will also need extensive experience of working collaboratively, building effective relationships with colleagues and senior decision makers.

The ability to balance multiple competing and changing demands and experience of communicating and presenting complex material to a range of audiences is equally important.

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.

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

The closing date for applications is 11:55pm on Monday 22 January 2024.

The CMA, like many other organisations, 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. Our staff work at least 40% of their time from their office location.

The CMA is 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.