Senior Competition Manager

• Organisation: Office of Rail and Road (ORR)
• Grade: Grade C
• Salary: London: £58,827 - £62,237
• Regional (Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Manchester, York): £54,453 - £59,920
• Contract: Permanent, Full-Time
• Working Pattern: Hybrid (40% on-site)

About Our Client

Michael Page have partnered with The Office of Rail and Road (ORR) to recruit a Senior Manager, Competition to lead key projects within the Economics, Finance and Markets (EFM) Directorate. The ORR is the independent safety and economic regulator for Britain's railways and the monitor of strategic highways.

Job Description

The Role Purpose

The Competition Team leads on financial and economic analysis, overseeing the competitiveness of markets across the rail sector and its supply chain. You will be responsible for leading key projects and workstreams to promote and protect competition, ensuring value for money for passengers, freight customers, and taxpayers.

You will provide project leadership, delivering a robust work programme-including market studies, enforcement cases, and competition policy development-while navigating the practical and commercial realities of the railway.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver high-impact projects within the team's work programme, including market studies and enforcement cases under the Competition Act 1998.
• Work with the Competition Team to take strategic decisions on complex cases, ensuring resources are focused to maximise the ORR's impact.
• Influence and build credibility with senior industry figures, concurrent regulators, and the wider competition community.
• Analyse voluminous and complex evidence to provide clear, actionable advice on regulatory decisions and informal interventions.
• Understand and navigate the interrelationship between competition law, safety policy, and economic regulation to support wider ORR objectives.
• Influence colleagues across the ORR to strengthen the organisation's collective understanding of competition law and policy.

Further responsibilities are in the Job Description

The Successful Applicant

Essential Criteria

To apply, you must provide clear evidence in your CV and Personal Statement demonstrating how you meet the following essential criteria.

1. Technical Skills

• Demonstrate subject matter expertise in competition law and policy and its interrelationship with economic and other types of sector specific regulation
• Able to analyse complex and voluminous evidence and materials to present clear advice on effective regulatory decisions.

2. Experience

• Lead Criteria Provein experience playing a key role in complex competition or regulatory projects, including delivering to tight deadlines, working cross functionally and supporting effective decision-making. Examples include enforcement of competition law, market studies, or sector-specific regulatory projects.

3. Behaviours

• Making Effective Decisions
• Communicating and Influencing:
• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace

What's on Offer

How to Apply

This campaign is being managed exclusively by Michael Page. To apply, please submit:

• A comprehensive CV setting out your career history.
• A Personal Statement explicitly addressing how you meet the Essential Criteria listed above.
• You can either send your applications directly to Mohammad Jameul - Consultant with the Subject Line ORR Senior Manager, Competition. Please copy the email into your message:
• Or collate your personal statement and CV in one document and apply via our website.

Candidate Information Pack

The Assessment Process

• Deadline: 8 th February 2026
• Longlisting/Pre-Sift: If we receive a high volume of applications, your application will be pre-sifted against the Lead Criteria only. You must demonstrate strong evidence of managing complex competition or regulatory projects
• Shortlisting: Candidates who pass the pre-sift will be assessed against all essential criteria (Technical, Experience, and Behaviours).
• Interview: Shortlisted candidates will be invited to interview in February 2026.

For a confidential discussion about the role or the application process, please contact:

Mohammad Jameul - Consultant

Email:

Telephone: