Assistant Director, Strategic Business Analysis

Requirements of the role

You will play a key role in building out our new strategic business analysis team within our existing Strategic, Business, and Financial analysis (SBFA) unit in DTI, ensuring we bolster our expertise and capability in this vital area. Working closely with frontline colleagues and other internal experts, you will work to amplify our impact through enhanced, forward-looking insight in relation to firms’ strategies and business models, including their development and deployment of technology such as AI and ‘digital ecosystem’ strategies. Together with colleagues from other analytical areas, you will draw out the implications for consumers, competition, innovation, investment and growth.

Responsibilities will vary across projects and cases, but will typically include:

• Strategic business analysis: Understanding how firms and markets currently operate and how this could evolve in the future. You will gather relevant information, analyse and advise upon the implications of a broad range of strategic and business issues as they relate to the firms we investigate – e.g. digital platforms, and fast-evolving markets like Artificial Intelligence. This could include:
  • Ecosystem: trends/ disruptive forces, competitive analysis, systems thinking, profit pools
  • Business and investors: business model, strategy, sources of competitive advantage, incentives, “playbook”, funding model
  • Future: strategic options, industry scenarios and drivers
• Helping build a new function entrepreneurially: supporting the creation of a world-leading function specialising in strategic analysis, engaging colleagues and stakeholders effectively, identifying scope to generate value through impactful strategic insights and analysis across the waterfront of CMA work, from horizon scanning through to live cases and investigations, including complex digital cases.
• Developing and refining our approach: Working closely with the SBFA leadership team, you will identify and explore effective improvements in approach to maximise the value of the new function. This might include identifying different assessment frameworks, prioritisation strategies, supporting technologies, or delivery routes.
• Leading and managing: To lead, motivate and manage multi-disciplinary professional teams, including setting stretching but achievable deadlines and priorities and fostering effective and collaborative team working.
• Problem-solving, using a hypothesis-driven approach, sound analytical skills and good judgement to identify the scope for impactful strategic insight and analysis, and deliver this effectively.
• Communicating effectively: Through presentations and written reports, communicating findings from your analysis, and articulating clearly the implications for a project or case. Audiences will include senior decision makers, other colleagues and a wide range of external stakeholders and experts.
• Team working: You will be a committed and highly respected member of multi-disciplinary project teams, working collaboratively and contributing to wider work and discussions in order to help inform conclusions beyond your own analysis.

You will also be involved in leading corporate contributions such as providing input to or delivering projects that seek to improve the CMA’s impact as a whole (e.g. risk monitoring, improving processes, promoting inclusion and diversity).

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