Profession competition policy officer

Competition policy officers manage the development of regional and national competition policies and law, in order to regulate competition and competitive practices, to encourage open and transparent trade practices and to protect consumers and businesses.

Personality Type

• Enterprising / Conventional

Knowledge

• Government policy implementation

  The procedures related to the application of government policies at all levels of public administration.

• Business strategy concepts

  The terminology related to the design and implementation of major trends and aims which are taken by an organisation's executives, while keeping in mind its resources, competition and environments.

• Business processes

  Processes which an organisation applies to improve efficiency, set new objectives and reach goals in a profitable and timely manner.

• Consumer law

  The area of law that regulates the relationship between consumer and businesses providing goods or services, including consumer protection and regulations on irregular business practices.

• Market analysis

  The field of market analysis and research and its particular research methods.

• Competition law

  The legal regulations that maintain market competition by regulating anti-competitive behaviour of companies and organisations.

Skills

• Maintain relationships with government agencies

  Establish and maintain cordial working relationships with peers in different governmental agencies.

• Promote free trade

  Develop strategies for the promotion of free trade, open competition between businesses for the development of economic growth, in order to gain support for free trade and competition regulation policies.

• Manage government policy implementation

  Manage the operations of the implementation of new government policies or changes in existing policies on a national or regional level as well as the staff involved in the implementation procedure.

• Liaise with local authorities

  Maintain the liaison and exchange of information with regional or local authorities.

• Investigate competition restrictions

  Investigate practices and methodologies used by businesses or organisations which restrict free trade and competition, and which facilitate market dominance by a single firm, in order to identify the causes and come up with solutions in order to ban these practices.

• Maintain relations with local representatives

  Maintain good relations with representatives of the local scientific, economic and civil society.

• Develop competition policies

  Develop policies and programmes which regulate practices of free trade and competition between businesses and ban practices which impede free trade, by controlling firms attempting to dominate a market, monitoring operations of cartels, and supervising mergers and acquisitions of large firms.

• Create solutions to problems

  Solve problems which arise in planning, prioritising, organising, directing/facilitating action and evaluating performance. Use systematic processes of collecting, analysing, and synthesising information to evaluate current practice and generate new understandings about practice.

• Advise on legislative acts

  Advise officials in a legislature on the propositioning of new bills and the consideration of items of legislation.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB