# Consulting Associate (European Competition practice)

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Brussels
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

Charles River Associates is a leading global consulting firm that provides economic, financial, and business management expertise to major law firms, corporations, and governments around the world.

The Consulting Associate position is the entry-level position for applicants with a postgraduate qualification in economics and up to three years of experience.

Responsibilities:

- Identify potential issues and conduct analyses that can be used to illustrate economic arguments;

- Assemble compelling evidence from data and research that support expert opinions and business recommendations;

- Program, build models, and/or perform regression analyses in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, Python, R), including large data projects requiring use of cloud computing;

- Assist in the development and presentation of client deliverables, including expert reports and white papers summarising opinions, conclusions, and recommendations using financial, market, industry, or client-proprietary data;

- Interact with clients and communicate complicated economic concepts and arguments to non-experts in an understandable, accessible manner;

- Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions;

- Participate in practice-building activities (training, recruiting, publication, expertise sharing, etc.).

Desired Qualifications:

- MSc/MPhil in economics from well-regarded institutions with a strong foundation in microeconomics, preferably with a specialization in industrial organisation or statistics/econometrics, as well as a good first degree in economics;

- Up to 3 years of professional experience, ideally in a consulting or competition policy environment;

- Fluency in English;

- High degree of numeracy and some comfort with data manipulation is essential, familiarity with econometric techniques is desirable;

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills;

- Demonstrated high level of initiative and leadership;

- Strong teamwork and collaboration capabilities;

- Excellent time management and task prioritization skills.

Work Location Flexibility: CRA creates a work environment that enables our colleagues to benefit from being together in the office to best deliver on our promise of career growth, mentorship, and inclusivity. At the same time, we recognize that individuals realize a range of benefits when working from home periodically. We currently expect that individuals spend at least 3 to 4 days a week working in the office (which may include traveling to another CRA office or to client meetings), with specific days determined in coordination with your practice or team.

## Skills

### Required
- microeconomics
- industrial organisation
- statistics
- econometrics
- Stata
- Python
- R
- data manipulation
- econometric techniques
- written communication
- oral communication

### Nice to have
- consulting
- competition policy
- fluency in English
- numeracy
- data analysis

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