# Principal (European Competition practice)

**Company**: Charles River Associates
**Location**: Brussels
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**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.

CRA's European Competition practice specialises in providing economic advice on matters of competition policy and regulation. We assist firms and their legal advisors in all types of competition proceedings: firms considering merger and acquisition opportunities or involved in merger control proceedings; and firms undergoing investigations relating to cartels, restrictive commercial agreements, abuse of dominance or state aid.

We seek a Principal in our Brussels office to work with those testifying in judicial proceedings to provide economic analyses of mergers and other competition matters before the major competition authorities of the world.

Responsibilities:

- Work closely with leading academics and consult with attorneys and other clients in industry and government on a wide variety of finance, strategy and economics issues;

- Conduct research in a supportive, team-oriented environment;

- Act as a primary point of contact for clients and shape, develop and present client deliverables including expert reports summarising our opinions, conclusions, and recommendations and third party financial, market and industry data;

- Independently conceptualise and identify issues, design complex economic and financial models to analyze economic and financial data;

- Oversee analysis in statistical analysis programs (such as Stata, SAS, R or Python);

- Manage the research process, and supervise, train and mentor teams;

- Ensure the integrity and accuracy of analyses and opinions;

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

Desired Qualifications:

- Good first degree in economics and a postgraduate degree qualification (MSc/MPhil or PhD/DPhil) from well-regarded institutions with focused study in economics or a related specialisation (microeconomics, industrial organisation, and/or statistics/econometrics);

- Extensive and relevant experience (10+ years), competition policy/economic consulting experience preferred;

- Senior candidates should be able to demonstrate an ability to manage more junior colleagues and to have extensive client contact at an early stage;

- Fluency in English;

- Extensive executive client presence, proven revenue creation and interaction skills;

- Demonstrated understanding of economic concepts, competition/regulatory authorities and quantitative and qualitative analysis methods;

- Exceptional written and oral communication skills;

- Experience managing and developing teams of junior colleagues.

## Skills

### Required
- economics
- microeconomics
- industrial organisation
- statistics
- econometrics
- Stata
- SAS
- R
- Python

### Nice to have
- competition policy
- economic consulting
- client management
- team leadership

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