The Executive Director, Markets is an Executive Committee role, reporting to the CEO. The ED, Markets will lead the combined Supervision, Policy and Competition Division, working in partnership with other SPC EDs to co-lead the Division and ensure a consistent approach to supervision, policy and competition across the FCA.
Requirements
- Extensive experience of leadership and people management
- In-depth knowledge and experience of markets regulation, the UK regulatory framework, and the FCA's role in its operations
- Proven capabilities in creating a vision and shaping strategy, with evidence of successful operational impact
- Highly collaborative approach as part of a leadership team
- Significant regulatory or industry-based experience, including complex strategic and wholesale market risk issues
- Ability to understand highly complex and technical issues quickly
- Openness to innovation, new ways of working, and adopting new technologies
- Ability to develop long-term strategic plans, positioning, and anticipating opportunities/trends/risks
- Significant stakeholder management skills, ability to negotiate with and influence senior people in private and public sectors, including UK government
- Ability to influence and build credibility with national and international stakeholders
- Excellent analytical skills, the ability to make difficult and complex judgements, taking the legal, political, and economic environment into account
- The ability to deal with significant and high-profile challenges to the work of the Division and the FCA
- The ability to make quick and effective decisions
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex decisions and concepts to a range of different stakeholders with competing agendas
- The drive and tenacity to maintain focus and performance in the face of public criticism
- Strong people leadership, ability to lead clearly and decisively through periods of change, and role-model cultural characteristics
- Strong personal resilience in the face of challenge
- Growth mindset, seeking out continuous development and learning, particularly in areas where function subject matter is not a strength of the successful candidate
Benefits
- 30 days holiday per year plus bank holidays
- Private healthcare with Bupa
- A non-contributory Pension of at least 8% of basic salary each month
- Life assurance of eight times basic salary
- Income protection
