Market Reform Economist

United Utilities
Warrington - United Kingdom
S: Competitive + bonus

Salary – Competitive + bonus + great benefits

We have an exciting permanent opportunity for a Market Reform Economist. This is a key role where you will be interpreting and influencing the proposals for the developing retail water market.

Who are we?

We are United Utilities, the North West's water and wastewater company, with our Head Office in Warrington. It's our job to bring 3.2 million households and thousands of businesses an incredible 2,000 million litres of clean, clear water each day. We take it all away too, treating it so it's safe to go back into the rivers.
Our employees and managers are key to achieving our ambitious vision and plans and make sure the 5000 people who work hard for us everyday provide a great service to our customers. This year we are investing in our staff to help equip them with the skills they need to deliver great performance.

This is where you come in…

You will:
• Review all market reform materials and requirements, both immediate and longer term, to ensure that all gaps and uncertainties are identified, and all company requirements are identified, documented and communicated to -the relevant business areas
• Provide day to day liaison between Economic Regulation Team and business areas engaging in Market reform and related organisational change activities
• Provide guidance and advice to the company's Market Reform programme, to ensure that internal change programmes will be successful and compliant
• Identify and set out any external lobbying required to ensure that the market architecture is established in a satisfactory manner

What will you focus on?

This is a brand new role which is required as a result of the water industry undergoing a period of substantial and unprecedented charge and is a real opportunity for you to make your mark. As well as being an exciting period of change in the Water Industry it is also the start of our new five year investment programme where you will be at the very heart of driving the business forward.

What do you need?

To succeed in this role you will:
• Be educated to degree level or equivalent
• Have an understanding of the economic principles and framework that applies to monopoly markets, with knowledge and/or experience of the interaction between incumbent monopolies and new market entrants
• Be a capable problem solver, with ability to provide effective guidance to the company whilst managing change within such an uncertain framework
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills and good influencing skills
• Desirable to already have familiarity with the Open Water market architecture plans


If you are excited about joining a leading FTSE100 organisation at an exciting and challenging period of change then we want to hear from you!

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