Director – Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
📌 Vacancy Fact Sheet
- Reference Number: VN-0770728
- Agency: Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
- Job Title: Director
- Position Number: EA2026/130
- Classification: Executive Level 2
- Closing Date: Sunday 19 July 2026
- Job Type: Full-Time;Part-Time, Ongoing;Non-Ongoing
- Location: Sydney NSW, Adelaide SA, Brisbane QLD, Canberra
- Future Merit Locations: Various locations – ACT, Various locations – NSW,
- Salary: $148,287 – $173,778
- Office Arrangement: Hybrid (Candidates will be required to work 2 days a week)
About Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
The ACCC is an independent statutory authority that administers the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 and other Acts. The
ACCC works to promote effective competition and fair trading in the market place to benefit consumers, business and the
community, and efficiency in the delivery of certain infrastructure services. The AER is a part of the ACCC. The AER is Australia’s
national energy market regulator and has an independent board. The AER shares employees, resources and facilities with the
ACCC.
Duties
- Lead a team of skilled professional staff to analyse and assess the competition implications
- of mergers and acquisitions.
- Strategic planning and risk assessment.
- Review and analyse submissions and legal/economic reports.
- Collaborate with other parts of the ACCC and, in particular, the ACCC’s internal specialist
- economists and lawyers.
- Oversee a team to prepare communication to industry participants, written recommendations
- for ACCC Commissioners and written determinations.
- Discuss the impact of mergers and acquisitions with customers, competitors, and industry
- groups, and professionally represent the ACCC in these discussions.
- Liaise with other Australian Government agencies and overseas competition and consumer
- agencies about the ACCC’s mergers work.
- Lead Australian Competition Tribunal review matters and litigated merger matters.
Eligibility / Notes
- In order to succeed in the role, you will have:
- Demonstrated experience leading teams in a fast-paced and large complex people-centred
- organisation.
- Exceptional written communication skills in a regulatory context.
- Tertiary qualifications in a relevant discipline, preferably economics, law, or similar
- disciplines.
- An understanding, or ability to quickly acquire an understanding, of the Competition and
- Consumer Act 2010 and, in particular, Part IVA of the Competition and Consumer Act, as
- well as an understanding of the roles and functions of the ACCC.
- To find out more about us and the role, please read the Candidate Kit.
How to Apply
Position Contact Morag Bond, 02 9230 3824
Agency Recruitment Site https://accc.bigredsky.com/page.php?pageID=106
Applicants to vacancies notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette should be aware:
that the names of successful applicants will also be notified in all formats of the electronic Public Service Gazette
applicants found suitable may be offered similar employment opportunities by other Australian Public Service agencies
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