Senior Competition Economist, fixed-term parental leave (all genders)

Company Description

At METRO, we’re more than a global food wholesaler. We are ONE METRO: a diverse team of over 85,000 colleagues across more than 30 countries, united by one mission: enabling our 15 million customers to create meaningful moments in hospitality and independent trade. 

We shape the M with passion, commitment, and growth mindset. This means taking on responsibility, making our company your company and creating a business together that remains true to its roots but always seeks new solutions. 

We invite you to use your strengths to make others want to work with us.

Job Description

Senior Competition Economist, fixed-term parental leave, part-time possible with 30 hours/week (all genders)

The team, the department:

This position is part of the Competition & Compliance team, which is embedded in the Legal Department of METRO AG in Düsseldorf. The team is responsible for all competition law matters of the METRO group. More specifically, cartel damage recovery, merger control advice and day to day competition law support are amongst the daily tasks of this team.

In this position:

• You are the competition economist of the Competition & Compliance team: A unique role in which you are responsible for providing economic advice in competition law recovery cases, merger control notification, public policy and other day-to-day competition law advice work.
• You are responsible for the collection, preparation and in-house analysis of data and other evidence for damage recovery cases. A smooth cooperation with several different METRO departments, for instance sourcing departments or IT is essential for this part of the role. You supervise the work of external economic advisors.
• You support in the collection, preparation and in-house analysis of relevant data and other evidence for feasibility assessments and merger control notifications with both national and international competition authorities. You supervise the work of external economic advisors.
• You support METRO's Competition & Compliance team in advising the country entities on competition law matters (for instance, in calculating market shares).
• You promote the interests of METRO through your economic assessments of regulatory and competition policy initiatives in the context of METRO's public policy activities (for instance, contributions to consultations with legislators, conducting market studies, etc.).

Qualifications

We are looking for:

• a competition economist (m/f/d) or econometrician (m/f/d) with a minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in competition law, most importantly cartel damage recovery and merger control, ideally gained at a reputable consultancy firm;
• With proficiency in STATA/R and/or Python, as dealing with data and econometrics is essential to this role;
• And an independently developed economic view to support the team's competition law and merger control positions (for instance with regard to theories of harm and empirical market definition).
• A competition economist (m/f/d) or econometrician (m/f/d) able to thoroughly scrutinize external economic analyses and act as partner to find robust and reliable solutions.
• A solution-oriented and pragmatic data analyst (m/f/d) with a strong cross-functional mindset and a genuine interest in METRO’S wholesale business; with proficiency in English and ideally also in German.

Additional Information

What we offer: 

• Work-life balance: Flexible working hours with the option of mobile working in agreement with your line manager, 30 days of holidays. 
• Training: A comprehensive training offer via our own training center or externally. 
• Well-being: Health days with lots of health checks and information about your well-being, company medical care including a range of preventive services, such as flu shots, OTHEB employee assistance program. 
• Exciting life on campus: Free gym and sports classes, Rioba coffee bar, canteen with discounted meals for employees, many campus events. 
• Discounts: discounted Jobticket as well as discounts in our wholesale stores and at many partner companies. 
• Comfort: Good transport connections, free parking spaces, JobBike.  
• Company pension plan: You will receive a contribution to your company pension.
• Family driven: Three daycare centers for children on campus, support of holiday camps for children of employees.